Some Good out of Georgia

This is a follow up to my post about Good and Evil and the bad in the news. I heard (on the TV news) the other day of the response of family and friends to what is now a "recovery" effort for the missing girl in Georgia, lost (attacked, abducted) while hiking.

Part of what *they specifically wanted to say* to the media was: in spite of the outcome, and in the midst of this kind of evil, they wanted to recognize the way that people around them - the community, the media too - have drawn together in love, showing respect and support.

oOo And that when evil things like this happen, this outpouring of concern and help shows once again how there is still more Good than Evil in the world! oOo

"It shows once again there is still more Good than Evil in the world!" Astounding! This I Believe. This is bedrock, and it shows me that although the "bad news" happens, and we should know about it, the reporting of it can initiate a good response.

And I think this is what I was missing earlier. oOo oOo


It's like the antibodies flooding around a wound or infection. It's like the rallying of the troops to the breech in the wall. It's like the circling of close defenders and friends in a fight, closing ranks, increasing what's positive, responding as a team, launching a counter-offensive.

The hurt, the crime, the evil, the hate, the pain, the true loss - this is the initiation, the catalyst if you will, for all the events, bad and good, that follow. oOo

This is where most news reporting starts and stops. We hear time and again how people with concern and love will reach out to help. News media considers this the "human interest", not the "main event". BUT IT'S NOT NEWS - we already know this about human nature! oOo oOo


What is most often lacking is the ongoing Long Tail of the responses to the evil events. oOo As Paul Harvey used to say, "the Rest of the story." Where it leads, how it continues, where it ends... oOo


This is how God has designed life to be. This is THE STORY of countless books and movies throughout time: the reason we love heros, achievers and miraculous recoveries; Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, and dramas like the million "Law and Order" episodes... oOo

We are intended to be the responding agents of good to continue the fight against evil wherever it breaks out. Not to minimize the wrong and destruction, but to turn it around. oOo

Not to ignore it, not by fooling myself into believing "it's all good" - the rose glasses and "speak no evil, hear no evil" syndrome... oOo


WE NEED more news that gives us the backstory and the long-tail forward-story! oOo That shows us how the good in the world responds to -- and actually increases and far outmatches -- the evil itself. I think that news journalism as it has come to be now, cannot provide this.

oOo "Do not overcome evil with (more) evil, but overcome evil with (overwhelming) Good!" oOo


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Can Hip-Hop Wash Out it's Own Mouth?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prominent U.S. hip-hop executive
Russell Simmons on Monday recommended eliminating the words
"bitch," "ho" and the "N-word" from the recording industry. "These three words should be considered with the same objections to obscenity as 'extreme curse words'," he said in a statement. [well, what rock has he and all the rest of the "crew" been under for so long...?] oOo oOo

Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam and a driving force behind the hop's huge commercialism, called for voluntary restrictions on the words and setting up an industry watchdog oOo to recommend guidelines for lyrical and visual standards. [I guess we shall listen and see. . . ] oOo


"Our internal discussions with industry leaders are not about censorship. Our discussions are about the corporate social responsibility of the industry oOo
to voluntarily show respect to African Americans and other people of color, African American women and to all women in lyrics and images," the statement from Simmons and Chavis said on Monday. [Whoops, does this mean "taking away my porno, too"?] oOo oOo
. . .

Well OK: so far so good, but not far enuff. oOo

How 'bout some street respec' for All Americans...people of Non-color...Asian women...Christian believers, not mockers...and anyone who actually knows and uses the true English language in a coherent manner.

oOo And elevate the status of true poets and talented lyricists who actually have something worthwhile to say in their art. oOo


Why shouldn't we hold Everyone to higher standards of (verbal and visual) behavior? oOo


Check out this article from Rob Preston, of informationweek.com:

Our society's capacity to rationalize and defend bad behavior is infinitely scalable. Radio host Don Imus lobs racially tinged insults...and then the apologists tell us what a charitable guy he is.


[NBC, after firing him, then has the nerve to air excerpts of the madman VTech killer's video and spoken diatribe a couple days later. Then, still not seeing any harm done, NBC plays a tape of Alec Baldwin raging on against his own daughter, (clearly a violation of privacy). This they make into a sensationalised self-righteous bit about how foul his verbal treatment of her is. Whatever the verbal abuse, it seems to be OK if it serves somebody's agenda!] oOo

Dare I say it - Hypocrites, the lot of them!! oOo oOo oO

On the Web, forum and blog posts are the cyber-equivalent of road rage--laced with profanity,insults and indimidation. But when an industry figure, Tim O'Reilly, calls for civility in the form of a voluntary blogging code of conduct, you'd think...that he'd proposed marshal law, hit squads and tribunals.
. . .

Sorry, but basic civility isn't an affront to the legacies of Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King, Jr. Cleaning up the incessant "f" bombs and mindless, thoughtless name-calling and threats that pollute the blogosphere [and music] "silences" no one's point of view. oOo

In fact, adhereing to [higher standards of expression] elevates one's point of view. oOo oOo

Why does all this matter? Because decency matters.

People, the Internet and, I believe, the Universe itself, all have a Memory.

oOo Didn't your mother ever say something like

"Is that something you want to be remembered for?!" oOo oOo



Well. . .? oOo

The Life We're "Living" is Killing the Next Generation(s)

Pay Attention to your kids!

And get some help for your own Mess you've created.

I'm going to mix metaphors, but-- No one is an island (John Donne said it better) and we are feeling the expanding ripples in the pond from the pebbles and boulders you have dropped-in over the last 20 years (at least). ))) oOo

oOo Part of the mission of the Subversive Good Web is to unite to stem the tide of this disease, cultural and social swamp-fungus, world-wide pandemic of just plain BAD and EVIL grossness polluting our environment!

Said environment is Global, Spiritual, Internal, External, Galactic, micro- and macro-biologic, systemic, real and virtual, infinitesimal and viral-- but not infinite and hopeless! oOo

I'm on a Rant here, oOo but why do we continue to allow [ pay our attention to] the interruptions forced upon us by:

worthless drivel and trivia,
constant blather of talk/talk-heads and
tongue-waggers whilst saying nothing;

overLoad and overKill of sound, sight, symbol,
media and techno Noise;

clogged blogging and internet garbage,
human Scream-ers, Rage-rs,
Numb-ers, addict-Destroyers and
nihilist-Annialators, etc. etc.

** WATCH OUT **

The Subversive Good Web is about to Enter the Fray and engage these enemys of Life. . . but still under the Radar))) :)

Let us Join Together to unplug and drain the Cesspool. . .

D'Oh! Ignore the Junk and You'll Remember the Good

LONDON (Reuters) - Filtering out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important, researchers said on Wednesday.

Great News! All the stupidity and total useless verbiage Trivia we are innundated by is a waste of Time and Attention! Who knew?! oOo oOo

"Until now, it's been assumed that people with high capacity visual working memory had greater storage, oOo oOo [ like Computers?! ] but actually it's about the bouncer -- a neural mechanism that controls what information gets into awareness."

Just like the Bouncer at the Club -- if you're a total worthless slime, you don't deserve a place In Here. GIGO.

Well, well-- this reminds me of a saying, and many people won't like it -- "too conservative", "too moralistic", "old-fashioned", "uptight", etc. oOo oOo

Here It Is:

Guard your thoughts, for thoughts lead to words.
Guard your words, for words lead to actions.
Actions lead to habits; Habits to attitudes. . .
Attitudes. . . choices. . .
Choices. . .consequences. . .
Consequences. . .
Destiny. [author unknown]


"As a man thinketh, so he is." Steven Covey knows this in his newest "8th Habit."

Part of the SubversiveGood Web can be to reclaim these mind/behavior patterns, seek and speak the truth, gain trust, and respect the personal ownership and overload limits of the people we deal with. Look at this new initiative for the Value of your Attention.

oOo oOo Connect. Together. Build the TrustWorthyWeb. oOo oOo