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Seventh
World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters
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Assemblée mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires
Séptima
Asamblea Mundial de Radios Comunitarias
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[Forwarded by [email protected]; please reply to [email protected]] Georgina and Jan, >However I reside on an isolated >farm with an 80 klm connection of ancient cable to my service >provider. My costs to connect are huge complicated by low speeds >and high dropout rates. > >I have also been pondering on the right not to communicate. Undoubtedly part >of the attraction of my "ïsolation"springs from the desire for silence and >for communion with nature. Others believe that without video and television >my life must be extremely deprived. Little do they know as they passively >view their "box" just how privileged I am in this international >participatory forum. Once again I pop in from Barbados. I agree. I have no TV, radio, or telephone. I certainly do not say this should be my lifestyle forever, but it has certainly given me time to ponder the life of many people in the world that live in this same state of quiet peace. I think I have nearly lulled myself into having difficultly with some of the real abstract postings. For the first time in years I look back at my constant drive to read more, learn more, understand more, agitate more, and suddenly there is all this quiet in my brain. I sit on my deck and watch the ocean and the stars. No TV, no reading, no computer, no radio. The neighbours push off in their little boats to catch some fish for breakfast. I wonder how I could ever form opinions without ever living like this. Was I only selling the popular agenda. Now I think harder. I wonder more. Can we preserve these pockets of culture in the midst of globalization, and growing technology? The space to listen to the change from day to night is sacred. Is there any technological media that can communicate this? It seems to me as soon as you introduce TV, video games, or radio, you lose the culture. The groups of little old men who sit around in the shack at the end of the street talking, playing their games, and drinking their "Banks beer, or rum. The parents and children who wander down to my beach for a late night swim, to cool off before going to bed. My daughter who has suddenly taken up reading books that are older than I am, asking, "Did you read this one mom? It's really good!" This is lost in the cities where the Universities are located, or the head offices of the companies are found. How do we communicate to them from these pockets of isolation, our desire to be a part of the world, but, our reluctance to be taken over by it? No programing or language can transmit the sounds of peace, the crickets, the waves, the wind, the smell. The way I could just sit here for moments, looking at the wind in the trees wondering if I really have anything to say at all. It is nice to hear from Georgina that she is experiencing the same thoughts. Lanie ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMARC 7 Foro Virtual Forum Virtuel http://www.amarc.org/amarc7 to unsubscribe / pour se desabonner / para abandonar : e-mail "unsubscribe amarc-1 " to: [email protected]