Say it ain't so!

Well its back to the future for me today. A throwback to the fall of '08 and the ranting over what became the travesty of TARP. Watch the embed for the details but here's the summary:

The new toxic asset auction facility appears to have a truly dark side. If my readings on the subject are accurate, its appears that the banks holding toxic assets and holding on to TARP funds may, in fact, use the TARP funds or other fed loans to actually participate in the auctions to essentially buy their own assets thereby relieving themselves of their own toxicity. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I am posting this video because it seems important in these times to spread good knowledge and theories. Hopefully the thinking and primary theory presented herein will turn out not to be the case.

Social Being

As of this blog writing, my family awaits the passing of a beloved member. My Uncle and godfather. A true spirit of life and living throughout his 77 years on this ball of earth. In reflecting on his rich life, it prompted me to blogitate about the social being that has been enabled through the socialsphere that has grown digitally.

How are the two connected? Example: My 83 year old mother (sister to my Uncle) and the Texas portion of the family are some 1400 miles in physical distance from the local fabric of our Canadian family yet we feel like we're literally next door in life and living. Nearly the entire nuclear and extended family has found a sense of social connectedness through the network tools of the day. Due to the density of the family's socialgraph collectively, we are able to instantaneously communicate and stay posted on life and conditions.

Today we collectively reflect upon our family member, our friend, our godfather, and the rest of the nuclear family. At the same time, we discuss, display, and share video, image and sound of growing infants taking their first crawls, goos, teething and laughing. Sports and school accomplishments of the older children. Ailments of the elders and the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of all the other members in between.

At times, I feel a sense of guilt - why? There are some with no connectivity. They really on word of mouth, phones, etc. No net connections, email, etc. The downside for them is that they tend to be finding out news later than the those that are connected to the socialgraph digitally. On many occasions, they learn of local news from those of us that are 1400 miles away - needless to say it really pisses them off! All I can say to them is "get connected".

What's the message in all of this? Not sure, perhaps merely an observation of the power of digital social beings that have strong socialsphere links and bonds. The tools and platforms of the day are important in creating these digital bonds. I suspect that the future will transport these bonds across the tools of today and tomorrow.