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America is founded
on a principle, e pluribus unum, or “out of man, one.”
We have long
fallen short of this idea.
In fact, thanks to
the disrupters who monetize what used to be ours, or at least we could be
persuaded to think that we were free to choose what we do, what we think, what
we say, who we are influenced by, etc., without being mediated to the nth
degree by the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (FANG!), we are
reduced to being market units, carved up in smaller and smaller slices in the
incredibly expanding universe that is the media and entertainment business.
(Not culture, BTW,
entertainment; that is what stands for culture in the global marketplace.
America First! Canada Last! Check out the new NAFTA, USMCA – only reason Mexico gets one letter and Canada two is to differentiate from the US Marine Corp. [USMC]. You can
bet the Trump folks love this front-loading situation: Branding is 80% of the
message, folks.)
My emerging
calling? Disrupt the disrupters. We’ll be a small but lively band of pious folk
who value humility and quietude over messianic grandstanding. But it’s where I
see myself, come what may.
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