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Our Audience is the World
Decades ago people like movie makers suddenly became far more self-aware when they looked at what they had created. In some cases some of those people became aware that they had made art that was very macho and full of awful stuff.
Since then some of the folks who make movies have begun to make movies that are no longer simply influenced by an old outmoded culture but rather are making movies that are leading-edge contributors of new cultural movements. Women's lib evironmentalism and the likes are well served by the film industry.
Having a new medium with which to express yourself causes people to become more aware of what they are doing. Today this same kind of thing is happening to average people around the world as many of us are beginning to use the world wide web.
Two different things are happening. On the one hand the internet gives an element of anonymity where people can get away with saying whatever they please. These activities have names like "trolling" and "flaming". You can incite others to go off or go off yourself.
On the other hand one can also realize that the potential audience out there is the world itself. What you would not do on a stage in front of a large number of people you should not do on the world wide web.
To touch on these two elements of talking on the world wide web I have written the following poem.
Poem About Speaking on the Internet
The outer world is a mess
A dying patriarchy rules there
But this Electronic Global Village
Is to some degree unspoiled and sacred
A woman and a man can speak here
One as easily as the other
No corporate or government walls
Keep men in and women out
So when a man or a woman
Says misogynistic statements here
I am going to take him/her to task
"Please do not violate this place"
Anyone on the planet can read what you say here
Your words should not be casually spoken
A youth could be led astray, a fragile heart broken
Or a mad man pushed over the edge
This is Earth-in-Rebirth
This is the new planet-wide culture
Do not desecrate this place
And expect me to be silent about it
As we become more aware of what we are doing
By using this new kind of space
We humans will grow and become more sensitive
And become planet-neurons co-thinking planet thoughts
