tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post6137176569723902591..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: The Most Popular Video on the Internet--What's It Mean?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-16027700239703892762008-07-06T23:00:00.000-04:002008-07-06T23:00:00.000-04:00Yeah, I feel ya there. I like it, it's moving, it'...Yeah, I feel ya there. I like it, it's moving, it's nice, especially with the little kids having so much fun. But I also felt the same way you did on the whole imperialism and privilege thing. One of the first things to pop in my mind actually.Jack Stephenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05349703689965815558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-26671491893045839532008-06-26T20:32:00.000-04:002008-06-26T20:32:00.000-04:00I ended up being kind of moved by it as well, myse...I ended up being kind of moved by it as well, myself. The first half felt a little ho-hum, but then a sense of the enormity of humanity started building as it continued to play.<BR/><BR/>Keeping in mind all the contradictions that have been pointed out here, I still feel the more of this kind of thing, the better. Squishy liberal humanism is not fundamentally antagonistic to revolutionary internationalism. I feel it tends to lead people in that latter direction, or at least creates the possibility.<BR/><BR/>Teh interwebs is creating a possibility for grassroots internationalism the likes of which the world has never seen. The more people establish one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many connections with people in other parts of the world, the harder it will be for the imperialists to start wars, continue their pillaging unchallenged, and so on. We're only seeing the beginning right now. The cost of communication continues to decline along an inverse exponential curve.<BR/><BR/>Excessively sunny optimism? We'll see.Skwisgaar Skwigelfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13486608104497602242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-78774344095384082492008-06-25T21:47:00.000-04:002008-06-25T21:47:00.000-04:00Sorry, Jimmie. I think you're over-analyzing.My re...Sorry, Jimmie. I think you're over-analyzing.<BR/>My reaction to that video is "Huh? What the helliszat? And why did I waste 4 minutes of my life watching it."<BR/><BR/>not to memtion writing this comment.<BR/><BR/>JKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com