Last night the headline of The Huffington Post, in characteristic bold red letters, said:
CALIFORNIA: America’s first failed state?
California has the eighth largest economy in the entire world. So what could have gone so catastrophically wrong?
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it.
You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it.
Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else.
I’ve been trying to make sense of the health care debate for some time now. Turns out, nobody seems to have a bloody clue what’s going on.
Until now.
To date, this is literally the only thing that has made any sense to me, and I wanted to do my small part to spread the…
The Social Media Revolution video I posted yesterday got some good dialogue going on my Facebook page, so I thought I’d bring it on over here.
A couple of my friends brought out some pretty interesting issues; the discussion went like this…
There’s so much great stuff in this video that I couldn’t not post it.
My question is what’s causing that shift in the first place? It’s partially technology, but as Clay Shirky says:
“A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools; it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”