Hope for First Nations

I am sitting at bridgehead feeling a bit low on energy. Looking out of the window, I see four First Nation men looking haggard. They are dirty, skinny and above all, hangover or perhaps more accurately, still drunk. I cant help feeling sorry for them. I wonder how they got to be the way they did. Do they really have such a low self esteem or self hatred that they feel it is better not to feel at all. It makes me feel helpless? It makes me feel upset. It makes me feel helpless. How do you assist? Where are the leaders of this community? Is it time to change their rhetoric? Not to focus on the wrong of the past. But perhaps to focus on the future. Their rhetoric reminds me of that of African- Americans who focus on the past. But they have a new leader- who not only serve them but serve all Americans. Their new leader is focusing on the future. Is that the kind of leader that the First Nations is lacking?

Old media vs. New media. Translation: “Past vs. Future”

I have frustratingly been looking for an outlet to publish my articles, which might be sometimes long and winding. I managed to get 3 published in three different papers and in two countries. It gets a bit annoying because I feel I have so much to say; rhetoric that I think might make people think twice. I became disillusioned, but this morning I read Chez Pazienza’s blog where she talked about being fired from CNN because of the content of her blogs. Despite feeling abandoned, or perhaps even just being mad as hell, Chez Pazienza decided to take on the big bad wolf herself. Her weapon: new media. Can she win? My bet is on her. Look at Obama’s resurgence against Hillary, which is all possible not just because of new media, but also a younger technological savvy demographic group that will only increase in numbers. In Assault on Reason, Al Gore hypothesised that we will be looking back decades from now and grasped that television was just a transitional period to the age of information. I am inspired again. This will be my outlet.