Dream, bitches.

When did I stop thinking Apple was a fucking amazing/awesome company like I did when I was programming LOGO in 2nd grade, and start thinking Apple was just ... too greedy for me to be totally comfortable buying an iPod touch?  

I mean, in the end, it's a pretty clever thing to own.  And really really, I need some tunes in my ears in the mornings/afternoons.  I just need Gaga IN MY HEAD so yeah.  That's something I wanna try to accomplish somehow.  We DO have a g1 not in use around the house atm.  Maybe C would let me use it.  Would just have to buy a nice set of wifi headphones for it.  


Anyway, this question had me thinking about like... well, you know like the idea here is that if you make something cool that millions of people want (not TOO difficult in theory given the human population of Terra Madre) you can really make incredible amounts of money selling it.  I read today that sixty thousand android devices are shipping every day.  Every day.  I mean, if you had a cool THING to sell, even if it was 19.95, if you get a million people to be dumb enough to buy your dumpster-destined plastic, you can make enough to retire, if you wish.  Or more likely, you can use that money to make more plastic shit nobody really needs or even wants more than a week after they've owned it, and which will find IT'S way to the dumpster, transferring untold millions of hard-earned dollars into your wallet in the process.  


And then I wonder.  


Is this the best we can do with our collective resources?  Is this the best we can do as human beings?  Is this the best evolution of human consciousness we can acheive in 2010?  HELLO!  We've seen the first DECADE of the 21st century just basically BLOW by with nary a shift in public policy regarding, well, everything that is, thanks to the economies of scale, at this point carcinogenic ways of behaving.  


Look, all I'm saying is we all KNOW we're doing this, but we don't have the leadership we think we need to get ourselves out of this mess, but if we can populate the world like this, and mechanize the building of huge cities and roads and equipment and vehicles and consumer products...... 


then...


well, people, we are all suffering from a sad, pathetic, and horribly tragic lack of imagination.  One day enough of us will wake up that we'll realize we can basically transform our world through the redistribution of material wealth, economic revolution, and a whole new system of resource management.  We'll some day realize that we need to dream more, together, and dream big - way, way bigger than 64 inches of flat panel glory.  


Bigger even than IMAX, or Disney World, or Dubai.  Bigger, people, than Europe, Asia, Americas, Australia, and dwindling arctics.  We need to learn to dream, together. 


Elseways, I think we are lost.  We've already basically transformed ourselves into a society of individuals who believe the only way we can have anything is to kill each other.  Whether literally or figuratively, that is how we deal with our fears about meeting our needs and ensuring our safety and survival.  The real threats to this however, cannot be met in the way we are behaving.  


I do hope we learn something different.  Because I hate being here sometimes, thanks to the way ALL OF US behave.    What can I say?  Human beings are so far, some pretty pathetic creatures in my view.  We can do better, but only if we choose to do so, together.