We are in the last days of the media arm of this movement. People working around the clock. The week has been so profound for me on so many levels. I have met one or more people from just about every social or environmental or political cause or charity or NGO (non-governmental organization) that anyone has ever heard of or not heard of. Oftentimes the situation is just so tense or fast paced (think Matrix but the cast not all dressed in black but instead dressed like Deadheads and you get the vibe of what the movement looks and feels like, it’s the Matrix movies super-fast-paced-working-for-the-cause-against-the-evil-empire-type-non-stop-action around here---other thoughts: obviously some people don't even realize that the matrix movies were actually (or are being used by some as) metaphors for what is going on right now in the people’s fight against corporate global totalitarianism in the real world now, but today I realized that it wasn't so much a metaphor as much as that is what the movies are about—its like a real world Matrix thing is happening now in the world—maybe it always has been---often referred to in social activism) Often times the days are so fast paced and insane that you may be working next to someone for a few days and not even know who they are, barely their first name, and then a few days later they give you their card and you're like ‘oh, you're from Public Citizen? Or United for Peace? Or the Steel Workers Union?” etc etc. so yeah that's cool. Because you get to connect all these organizations to faces and vice versa. You feel at once this grand sense of purpose and honor to be among this elite group of activists. One word to sum it all up? and this is the part that is so revolutionary about the revolution: humility. Everyone very respectful and humble and just tries to focus on the jobs at hand.

You got freespeech.org people filming interviews with people, Indymedia people editing protesting footage, groups talking food irradiation, members of the American Indian Movement pow wowing in another room, non-GMO food people eating organic carrots talking about communes, protestors against environmental degradation sitting on the floor writing press releases, demonstrators against slave labor in Mexico and Columbia designing postcards in another office, it just goes on and on....sometimes its hard for me cause I haven't been in the hippie scene in so long (not that activism equals hippies cause it doesn’t); I left it years ago; so I could make some fucking money, but now I understand why. you have to be in the world that suits you best so you're in top shape in order to do your best to help. I see the role that each of us plays. And you don't have to be a hippie to be an activist and vice versa. Lots of ‘causes.’

Its interesting in matrix terms because if you think about it you start to realize that if the world wasn't being controlled by people that didn't care about these issues, then the issues wouldn’t exist. There wouldn’t be any ‘causes.’ And of course then there wouldn’t be such a struggle, and this need for all these charities and protests and demonstrations. The people in control would just make sure that the basics, like human rights, and labor laws, and environmental protection, etc were all taken care of before they concerned themselves with money making. But right now its in total reverse to that. so it takes all these other people to pay attention to all these causes for us. this idea that these people are somehow subversive couldn’t be further from the truth. These are just the really plugged in and smart people from all the different demographics from our society. And for some reason they are selfless enough and caring enough to actually do something about it. 

Thoreau and the Camel and I have been talking for the last two hours. I am very moved by this experience of talking so openly and intelligently with people. there is no real boundaries in our conversation because we are all so knowledgeable on all the different subjects that we choose. It is refreshing not to have to fake dumb or fake interest in matters that are entirely irrelevant or mundane in order to have communication with another being.

You look over at some girl and her leg is just filled with hair. Some of these girls have as much hair as I do on their legs. Man that takes some opening up. not all of them, just some. Also, you call someone a he and they correct you “she.” And you're like o.k. I can do that. Just a lot of opening up.

Today was historic for another reason: I got a few of the people together that we all had been working together for the last four days I just say come on, lets run upstairs and lets talk and we’ll have Scott video tape it because I think a lot of fans are going to be really interested in all of this. So this was great because G2 had been saying to me for the last four years, Fishy the site is called Transcendent television. We need to have more television on it. so tonight we made the very first episode if you will for TTV.

Spent hours and hours lying around talking while the poor video team still works around the clock compiling footage of the four days events to upload to various news services around the world. We were all lying around in the dark and just talking. everything from the IMF, GATT, capitalism, WTO, AIDS in Africa and how bono is unknowingly being used as a ploy to spread free trade in the form of passing NAFTA in Africa, catholic church, etc... Pyle sang us a song, van demeans land. Very beautiful. discovered that my idea that once people make a certain amount of money they should be coerced into giving the rest of it away to other people in need, is actually a working meme now already called maximum global wage, just like minimum wage is. Very socialist/communist of course, and in the long run probably not something that we should make law as much as just demand more on a social level from our fellow citizens, something akin to peer pressure is the way I would like to see it, rather than communism. And the other thing of course is to make that maximum wage pretty high, maybe something like 100 million a year. That would be nice. Hehe. Maybe fifty. The rest, ciao ciao. Goes off to other people. and the beauty of something like that would be that the people who give the most, I mean the ones who are cool and smart enough to make the most money are going to be the ones giving the most away every year and it could be almost a contest, like, who gave the most away this year... that type of thing,. and those people could be looked at as heroes and celebrated in society; maybe that would make them feel better because in some cases certain people would be giving a lot more away than they would actually be keeping for themselves. Another way to do it would be to just graduate the income tax even higher like even up to sixty or seventy percent like in some European countries when you hit certain income brackets. Crazy me talking like this I know because I have been such a fucking capitalist for so long. But Red makes a good point, how is there a healthcare crisis or all this national debt and starving people and all this in a country where there are so many billionaires? And no he's not saying take all the rich people and put them up against walls and shoot them and steal their money like in Cuba or Russia---but rather just reward people with a good sense of community spirit by contributing what they have. for me I have to be honest, it is very hard to imagine someone having billions and still seeing homelessness exist in his or her own country and not have already devised a plan and set aside the resources to stop it and better yet, prevent it. [the point of this being by the way that I didn't invent this idea---someone had also thought of it---and the same thing with turning Columbus day and thanksgiving day into international days of mourning already exists as well. as Thoreau said, Fishy you did invent these ideas because you never heard of them before and you thought them up, but the truth is that they are already out there floating around. Its just now they need to be manifested into reality. Integrated into the mainstream. Really solidify. We talked about keeping thanksgiving a nice day to take off spending time with and being thankful for your family, but definitely get rid of all the lies around the pilgrims and the Indians and their harvest feast and all that and rather every household in America burning a candle to mourn the almost one hundred million native people who were killed so we could all live on this land. Man that's sad just writing that. but it’s a truth we just need to come to grips with. [ps—I am thinking so much faster than I am writing, but yes I do believe that ideas like this will manifest and I do believe that they will happen in our life time. I think that for the most part people are ready for truth in their lives. I think it is one of the most pressing desires people have in their hearts and minds right now. this uncontrollable but perhaps unspoken hunger for truth. I want to make note that in my lifetime I can remember when video games just began. When they were in about ten people’s homes and you never in a million years thought it would turn into such a mainstream phenom. The same thing with online diaries—now they call them blogs—getting very popular; the list goes on and on. Who would have known that swingers clubs—people having group sex and orgies in public places would ever turn so out in the open; or escort services; or fetish parties; or activism for that matter. But all this stuff is like mainstream now. Even activism is soon on its way to becoming very mainstream as much as the government is trying to make it seem like activism is somehow wrong or subversive. My point though is that we need to reconcile the false nature of all these holidays but not dissolve them. They have a lot of meaning to a lot of people, but just slowly over the years and decades start to add more of their real meaning back to them, and where there's just out and out evil in them, as in the case of Columbus day or thanksgiving, just try to eradicate as much of that as we can from them.