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Posted by dru in Information on July 17th, 2010
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ”indoctrination,” we might say – exercised through the mass media. ~ Noam Chomsky
The Free Person’s Roundtable is a forum for public opinion that features free-thinking opinionated and progressive-minded people defining and commenting on the issues that they see as relevant. The issues could be anything that has effect on our daily lives from education, religion, environment, technology, to health care, media, society, or art — the basic “A to Z’s” of life.
By discussing these issues, we hope to uncover the real sources that are negatively impacting daily life. When we try to come to solutions through unfiltered and uncensored dialogues, we open the door for new ideas. By featuring the free persons of our podcast thinking for themselves, we hope to get people engaged, first in dialogue, and finally in ways to actively improve their communities.
Media for the Rest of Us
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It’s not healthy. ~ Ted Turner
Recently, major media news has become increasingly political, corporate, destructive and divisive. Too often, big media censors our radical ideas labeling them as too outrageous for the mainstream. Yet, some of those very same radical ideas, that really are the innovative ones, can vastly change and help heal society. In the current media system, we are reduced to being taxpayers, voters, viewers, workers, or just commodities. Rarely are we ever considered to be an intelligent, independent, and free thinking people with solutions.
FPR believes, we are all very able individuals capable of examining problems in our communities and acting independently to solve those issues at a grass roots level. The FPR podcast is designed to create that forum for: we, the creative, self-aware, and independent people that can offer constructive, informative, and enlightening discourse.
Joining the New Paradigm
When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. ~ Fred Rogers
As we keep saying, it is time to explore the world with all the radical ideas “on the table,” together as as team and community — actually doing something about it in constructive manner without sidestepping each-other or the problems. It is time to think differently. We are heading into unfamiliar territory in this future we all have made for ourselves. Humanity simply will not be able to rely on the ways of the past to survive. As a result we feel we must open the door for this needed creativity to flourish and to get personal opinions out into the hands of others. Free people thinking and sharing openly is the only way we can start.
The Free Person’s Roundtable is a virtual community forum and podcast available on iTunes that aims to facilitate real change in real-life communities all over the world.
Correspondents
We promise to always work completely independent of any mainstream major media market, without the help of any politicians, or be controlled by any big corporate investments. Come and join the new paradigm of democratized media.
Dru: Describes himself as an Anarcho-Syndicalist with Georgistic tendencies. Dru is a resident of the Midwest by way of an upbringing on the East coast. He was taught at a young age that having a stand is better than having your opinion made for you, and that it is your responsibility to hold the powers that be to the light.
Emmet: Life-long student, artist, world traveler, and philosopher, Emmet dreams of a world where happiness is the norm and fear has no place. Reluctant to be labeled under any “ism” Emmet believes that different forms of government work at different levels but the key is to come to some consensus on what works for all through education and discussion.
