He calls asking these types of existential questions “nothing but advanced common sense… [but] common sense that’s not commonly practiced, simply because it’s so easy for us to create things, get caught up in the form of what we’ve created, and let our connection with our real and primary intentions slip.”

I agree with you, Hugh.

Perhaps the question mainstream media outlets need to ask themselves is, “What business are we in, exactly?”

i think that newspapers etc need to really have a good long think about what they are actually *for*, ie why they exist, beyond abstract things like information and gravitation … both of which are abstract words that have no meaning to people in and of themselves. “providing information” is a way newspapers etc do something. what, exactly, i am not sure, and different newspapers will define that “what” in different ways, but if they can define the “what” they might find a path out of the fear described above.

and of course it’s got to be something other than “making money by wrapping content around ads” because if making money is their objective, they would be better setting themselves up as casinos.

now if you could figure that out, i’m sure a lot of media fat cats would want to talk to you…

points of gravitation maybe?