Friday evening briefing. [the_ivory_tower has died and I'm defaulting to h/meta]

Ambitious Praetor of the Vulgate reporting in.

Rumors swirl. The supernatural is tense and charged. It reminds me of Occupy.

The initial optimism stage of a movement is the best part. "This time we're going to get it right," said the people who were standing in the wreckage of what remained the last time some people said "This time we're going to get it right." Occupy had that. It felt like our turn to make our mark on the world, those of us bound as teenagers to a hive mind we only barely understood.

Oh Internet, God and Goddess of Dense Connection, I Have Loved Thee

I have had strangers in my life like butterflies. Still do.

I spread my wings once, and people screamed. Any reaction's a good reaction. Boo.

So what are we to do, collegiate gentle-squires of the under-denizen-hall? Scream?

I prefer Rage.

As we watch them pass another legislation strangling tech from its promise of, if not a utopia, at least not heck on earth, are we just going to watch?

Or is it time to take action?

the rdrama letter writing competition will soon begin.

for what is a letter

but a satire

of the society

that is so clearly lawless

and what is rdrama but our very own media EMPIRE?

think about it.