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Twenty Tweets #9

BY Emeri Gent | 08-02-2009 | 7:32 AM
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Began with idle thoughts about my own twitter participation, these thoughts show signs of treating "social media" as a new establishment but I realize I need to focus on the positives of social media, rather than focus on noticeable herd-instinct.  Half way through my tweets, I had a bit of a political stream of consciousness but not to be political but simply explore what politics means to me as a construct, to look at this "political object" and examine it from the outside, rather than be caught by its grip on the inside.  Like religion, politics is an emotional quicksand which can soon begin to drag one under its awesome power - a power invested in it because it stems from group cohesion - so the social network began well before even the tribes of Israel - we like to things that life was invented in the 21st Century. !?
      
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      I am now following 16 people. Need to find 2 more people then the mugshots form a square - which basically shows how random this is now ...
          
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      I am not looking for additional twitter apps, I am looking for common sense rational - I can see that TWENTY TWEETS works better with themes

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      Don't know how the technology behind twitter works, but I do know that twitter is turning out to be way more FUN than I could ever imagine !
          
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      Twitter beats email spam hands down, I can't delete all my emails with one delete key function - one day there will be no - email whoopee !!
            
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      Sometimes I read my tweets and they sound like I am anti-technology or anti-social - I am neither, I am anti-stupidity . . .     
            
  6.
      Guy Kawasaki just mentioned benefits of Tweetdeck. I take this to mean twitter on a Powerpoint only because I am in denial of this software
          
  7.
      Man, that Guy Kawasaki sure can tweet - either he has eight hands or he has practiced martial tweeting arts ???
          
  8.
      I am starting to dig my "emerigent" screen-name. This must be the onset of social-media madness . . . thankfully I have processes to cope !!
          
  9.
      I use a very sophisticated third-party twitter application called CUT and PASTE . . .
          
  10.
      The last time I did one-liners was 2004 . . . but quit when I got bored of it, when will I get bored of this ???
          
  11.
      Does political consciousness mean reciting the news we receive or finding out about the other 80% of the world where there is "no news" ???
          
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      I am left wing, I am right wing, I am center, I am all of these things for my life is a spectrum painted in a brush called freedom of choice
          
  13.
      We are exposed to brutal things and live in a brutal world, we all possess the brutal gene but we want brutality to end - it can, find peace
          
  14.
      How do I find peace? By giving responsible freedom to my thoughts and by deconstructing thoughts until there is no noise left inside my head
          
  15.
      News is emergent so why do we fail to treat it in an emergent way, why is it packaged like cereal and delivered to us like breakfast?
          
  16.
      We all need a space to think, but our thoughts are our primary problem, unless we are masters of our own thinking, we are thoughtless people
          
  17.
      Intelligent people change in the bath of intelligence, intelligent people can also drown in a sea of information overload
          
  18.
      Turning human beings into a spiritual product is idolatry and idoltary is among the most stupid ways of being invented by mankind . . .
          
  19.
      Ease off on the heavy duty talk with the cleaning power of humour . . .
          
  20.
     Politics is a joke if one really thinks about it, we can make it as serious as serious can be since we all have to live with its consequence

e.g.,Twenty Tweets #? (from http://www.twitter.com/emerigent )  
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