In a ever changing society seemingly going in circles there are many positive things to consider.  Within our current state of personal dissatisfaction, our creative process can help us weed through vast amounts of filtered information. Critical thinking now more than ever is going to give us a sense of peace and contentment. while kicking paranoia to the curb.

Terror and paranoia:  what are you protecting? The news is circular reasoning with fear and confusion, making you emotional and making you want to act. With paranoia on the verge of being an epidemic, we will buy anything for safety and bear arms to defend ourselves.  When you are on the defense you are not thinking. Article: http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/518

Beware of following suite from our slandering politicians: The news media caters to a small populous of very closed off minds. This small majority is classified as normal everyday average Americans. In the same category anywhere from 25-50% of the population is Bipolar according to suicide.org and medicalnewstoday.com. Article: http://www.harpers.org/archive/1964/11/0014706

Paranoia is an illness that is powerful and very destructive. Fear slows mental and physical growth; when your internal mechanisms have a bug it will show in your external actions. It seems very prevalent on collective, but individuals who feel ill want to get better, they want to BE better. Try to apply everything to hear to a small level; communities, classrooms and families who try desperately to break this cycle. Always question heavily where is the news getting its data? who are these “experts and doctors” researching and diagnosing the mentally ill. 25-50% is a huge gap and what is the solutions that are being offered or not offered? If the only goal is more research, data, better chemicals we as a whole collective people need to questions all of these things. We need compassion and love for those who are desperately trying to be right and feel like they belong.  Article: http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/ct-emotional-intelligence.cfm

Just a spoon full of sugar and a great sense of humor can easily put all this into perspective. Remember your priorities and revise if needed and feel your brain get empowered and react less. See the current situation for what it is and being compassionate and loving puts the control back in your mental hands. Don’t expect the news to change; get your news else where and do it often, check the source and take it with a grain of salt. remember no man is an island and get curious about change and be passionate for progress. Root with your community and turn a deaf ear to the propaganda.

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Watch highlights of this successful Long Beach program and see its impact on the local community. This is when people come together and work to solve issues in their communities. This is the start, we all need to be involved in the shift. This is nice to see successes.

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Here is a list of potential topics that we feel are fruitful and relevant to today’s society and each could stand on their own as a show topic  Please use these topics as a guild to choose from when filling out the form below.

• Censorship & Free Speech
• Abortion
• Addiction
• Advertising
• Animal Right
• Apathy
• Art & Saint Louis
• Artificial Intelligence
• Big Business
• Black Markets
• Catastrophe & Change
• CBT & REBT
• Children & Technology
• Class-ism
• Community
• Consumerism
• Cradle to Cradle
• Credit & Debt
• Design vs Utilitarianism
• Divorce
• Economics
• Education vs. Indoctrination
• Efficiency vs. Equity
• Enlightening
• Environmental Issues
• Ethics & Morality
• Euthanasia & Aging
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Extremism & Nationalism
• Food
• Free Trade
• Freedom of Information
• Genetics
• Globalism
• Governmental Roles
• Graphic Design
• Housing
• Human Enrichment
• Human Rights
• Human Trafficking
• Immigration
• Inspiration
• Intellectual Copyrights
• Internet Privacy
• Legalization vs. Prohibition
• Life & Loss
• Mainstream vs. Underground
• Marriage vs. Partnership
• Media & Politics
• Modern Culture Violence
• Modern Day Ritual
• Modern Gender Roles
• Modern Mythology
• Modern New Media
• Modern Publishing
• Money
• Movies & Theater
• Nano-technology
• Narcissism
• Nuclear Weapons
• Obesity
• Opinions vs. Facts
• Parenting
• Permaculture
• Pollution & Big Business
• Pornography
• Privacy
• Psycho-Pharmaceuticals
• Psychology of Design
• Racism
• Real Grass Roots Change
• Recycling
• Relationships & Marriage
• Relationships
• Relationships
• Religion & Government
• Religion vs. Spirituality
• Restorative Justice
• Sex & Media
• Sexism
• Slow Living
• Social Justice
• Social Media
• Social Obligation
• Social Responsibility
• Social Taboos
• Space Exploration
• Sports
• Stereotyping & Profiling
• Technology
• The Tipping Point
• True Altruism
• Truth
• Universal Health-care
• Urban Ecology
• Virtues of Selfishness
• VR vs. RW
• War
• What is a good life?

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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 virtual community forum and podcast available on iTunes that aims to affect real-world change through dialogue and discussion.  The FPR podcast is a platform for public opinion that features free-thinking and progressive-minded people defining and commenting on the issues that they see as relevant in their lives and their very own visions for a better future. The topics discussed will include anything that has impact on our daily lives from education, religion, environment, technology, to health care, media, society, or art — the basic “A to Z’s” of life. We will also throw in some entertainment and fun because in the end we need to laugh along the way.

By discussing issues close to our hearts and daily lives, we hope to uncover the real sources that are negatively impacting our lives and discover alternatives.  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 freely for themselves, we hope to get people engaged, first in dialogue, and ultimately in actively improving their communities.

Media for the Rest of Us – Joining the New Paradigm

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, the truly original and 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 to partake in constructive, informative, and enlightening discourse.

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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. ~ The FPR Hosts

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.

TBA: Looking for a new host… if you are interested, contact Dru.

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