brief

i actually have

another channelling

that I did by hand

and that I just need a block of time

to post--

in the meantime,

I have to share this lovely little video

I found on YouTube,

quite by accident,

a poignant testimony

to the power

of giving a camera

to every human

and giving them a simple technology

by which they can broadcast

their work:

Brecht was right, but he had the wrong medium (how could he have known?)

(brecht-wikipedia)

Bertolt Brecht was talking about the internet,

I believe,

when he said:

"It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: change this apparatus over from distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes. That is to say, it would be if it knew how to receive as well as to transmit, how to let the listener speak as well as hear, how to bring him into a relationship instead of isolating him."

Bertolt Brecht

"The Radio As An Apparatus For Communication"

I was inspired to post this when I found this

other link on a film about Digital Humanities

(being bemoaned by Hitler! -- sorry, this cannot be embedded, so please follow the link),

thanks to the blog Exploring Our Matrix.

Also with gratitude for the blogger Radio Survivor,
who made it possible for me to find this quote
without having to dig through my books!