To me it seems crazy that we could consider ourselves a country before radio. I mean, we had no unifying THING. No one thing that brought the whole country together other than war or something. That is so crazy to think about. Now I could be listening to the same radio station as some kid in Kentucky, or a grandma in Nevada or something else weird and I would never know but it’s so cool to think that it could be happening.

I for one don’t think that nationalism has ended. As long as there are things that everyone dislikes, we’re okay as a country. And as long as we have a government, that’s taken care of. I don’t think any kind of marketing could totally end nationalism. I mean, right now we all have person-specific marketing shoved at us every time we go on Amazon.com, or ebay or wherever. It’s something we all have that makes us feel special. I think it might even bring us together a little bit to think that we have our own set of preferences, outside of our niche. The idea that we don’t have to conform completely is comforting, to me at least.

I think at a certain point we have to acknowledge that corporations have too much power. I mean, if Disney can just change the laws whenever they want what’s the point? Now, I love Disney, I don’t know what kind of person I would be if I hadn’t grown up watching Disney movies, but the mouse is a nonessential element. I understand that the mouse kind of built the company, but that was forever ago. It’s time to move on. If Disney was smart they’re let that go and work it to their advantage. Don’t ask me how, I’m dumber than they are, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m talking about.

I think if they let the mouse go people would start using it for a while, then realize that all they’re doing is advertising for Disney. At this point there’s no going back. It will forever be a Disney icon. Another reason they don’t need to cling to it! There’s really nothing anyone could do with that mouse that would damage Disney in any way. Unless someone did do something bad with the image, claiming to be Disney. That, obviously would be wrong. But other than that, Disney seems untouchable.

I have to say, I really love the idea of copyleft. I had never heard of it before ,but now that I have it seems perfect. Claiming no ownership of something is the coolest thing, I can’t believe it’s not more popular. Well, I can believe that to be honest, given the whole capitalism thing we’ve got going on. But I guess you can really only transcend capitalism if you have no good ideas, or enough to hand out for free. I fall into the former category.

I mean I’d love to take advantage of this kind of thing, I just don’t feel I have anything to contribute. The only problem I have with this is that it’s exclusive to ideas. You couldn’t copyleft a piece of writing, could you? I mean you could but anyone could make modifications to it and the integrity is lost. And without the author’s original name and viewpoints, a huge piece of the intended influence is gone. This is only crossing my mind because this is my area- or at least kind of. I’m an English major, and I’m just trying to find a way that this could carry over.

I suppose that a universal publishing kind of thing could be established, but I guess that’s kind of the internet, isn’t it?