This is a total Revolution, and we must acknowledge that to see its full potential. Everything you knew about the way the world works is out the window. We’re going to see more change in the next few years then anyone who has ever lived.

We find ourselves in a distressing situation, entangled in an establishment with no regard for the planet, or our rights. Many individuals in our government welcome and expect an Armageddon scenario. They are willing to wage war for oil, lying and killing thousands. Why shouldn’t we believe they would engage in other destructive and deceitful acts in their own self interest. We see them doing it all the time now. all the time.

They manipulated our perception of the world, stealing our resources, limiting our awareness, all to advance their own sinister agenda. They had the power until now.

We must acknowledge that our awareness of the world actually has an impact on the world. There is a Revolution happening now, and it’s because of this. We see it first hand in the Ron Paul grass-roots campaign. Individuals using the Internet were not forced to believe that Ron Paul had no support, as the established media would have them believe. They saw firsthand their perspectives validated, and it encouraged them to spread it.

Self preservation is an instinct we all have. Ideas have it too. All this time we’ve been held back by the old Ideas. Below is a clip from a movie more than fifty years old. I saw this clip for the first time only this year. I was furious. Why is this speech still as revolutionary today as it was when it was made? Is it a timeless classic, or proof that the old times are still here?

The power they took from the people will return to the people!

Now is the time for change. We must acknowledge the new found ease of connecting our combined resources to ideas. We must acknowledge our responsibility to promote information, ideas, and businesses beneficial to us, our nation, and our planet.

Crowd business could take over this nation in no time. There is a need for it. The old establishment is destructive to our continued well being. The first step in creating a new establishment by the people, of the people, for the people, and for the planet is to give a voice the ones forming it. Who are the people willing to step up and acknowledge the Total Revolution?

Our voice is loud and our results are real. We unite with singular cause. Advance Liberty. Nothing is out of our reach. Look what we’ve done so far.

What happened with RonPaulBlimp.com is a blueprint. They came up with an idea with enough demand that resources organized spontaneously. Awareness is a resource in itself, and it’s one people give freely on the Internet.

Perhaps a crowd could devise and fund a free health care system. Could we rely upon news outlets funded by a for profit medical industry to raise awareness of such a plan?

Perhaps a crowd could devise and fund a way of providing renewable energy to the entire nation. Again, the parties needed to raise awareness of such a project maintain a vested interest against it.

Its time we stand up and say YES! We are the Internet! We are the real world!

We can test ideas in the virtual world, then move them to the real world. That’s what Blimp did.

We are under attack. We have always been under attack. The forces of tyranny have infiltrated our government, our economy, our media, every aspect of our life. We must take a stand! THESE ARE OUR LIVES! THIS IS OUR PLANET! LET US MAKE IT AS WE CHOOSE!

This experiment aims to investigate ways in which individuals can be compensated for promoting ideas.

I think that if enough people believe in an idea the resources to achieve it will organize spontaneously. By promoting an idea you enable more people to see it, and consequently become a resource of the idea itself. If the idea is profitable enough, you could be compensated, should that idea choose to do so.

To conduct the experiment I promote the idea I believe in most, the one splattered all across this blog, throughout the net.

We are at a tipping point, but not where the old media starts paying attention to Ron Paul. This is the tipping point where the mainstream population begins to accept the Internet as a source of mainstream information.

The corporate political machine has control over the media, and they use it to push their agenda. Every media source has an agenda. We should embrace this fact rather then ignore it. We can use it just as effectively as the tyrants. Since our agenda is so much more compelling then theirs, it should be easy.

I’m proposing a social news site dedicated advancing liberty. We have an incredible tool with the Internet. We can organize and accomplish things with ease unimaginable just a few years ago. We can organize alternatives to government programs. We can promote ideas beneficial to We the people. There is nothing more powerful then an idea who’s time has come.

I’m creating a website. It has all the function of a typical social news site, and an added layer of interaction. Users can connect stories together, and vote on the relevance. This enables users to connect video commentary to specific events. The community generates compelling conversations about current events, while at the same time advancing it’s agenda.

Now is the time to unite. We must unite our attention as a nation, on our nation. It’s already happened to a small degree, and look what we’ve accomplished. It is your patriotic duty to contribute to the new mainstream. We are under attack. Our American way of life is threatened, just as it becomes orders of magnitude more powerful.

I am downright amazed by what is happening in the Ron Paul campaign. Just four years ago most of the things were doing would have been impossible. It’s not that the technology has changed much in the last four years; the internet is still the internet.

So what has changed? What is it that enables us now to spread ideas and organize so efficiently? We as a people have developed new culture. We are just beginning to understand the power we wield when we use the internet to express ourselves. We are bigger then our bodies. We are part of an idea that is coming to life.

I remember a few months ago, before the Iowa straw poll, someone created an online rally site where people uploaded their photos. Someone else stole those photos and made the Ron Paul collage. Then someone else thought it would be a good idea to make it into a newspaper add. Then many other individuals donated money to pay for it.

Other examples include the November 5th money bomb, and now teaparty07.com.

We can see liberty in action in this campaign. It is stronger then it’s ever been. It has more power then it ever has. We saw it on our record breaking fund raising day, and we’ll see it again at the tea party.

Let’s take back our nation NOW. Let’s not wait for the election.

We as individuals hold supreme power, not the government.

We are the ones who will make this world a better place, not the government.

We are the ones who will end the war, end the suffering, end the tyranny!

We have the power to change things NOW!

What if the government could provide a service that everyone would want to use? What if that service was free? What if the government generated profit from that service? There’s no way anything like that could exist, if this were ten years ago.

What if that government truly represented the people? What if people were actively engaged in controlling that government? What if the people could decide how to spend the government revenue? How would society spend free money?

Businesses and other organizations are willing to pay for your attention. Your attention has value. The Internet has changed the distribution of our attention. Where before, it was all focused on a few major outlets, now it is spread across many many more. How many random youtube videos have you watched? Advertising models need to adapt to cope with user produced content.

Now that we live in the future we can make this work to the benefit of everyone. We can unite our attention in a single place, and sell it. We can decide as a community what to do with it.

How do we go about doing this?

In spite of the rampant success of social news sites like digg.com and reddit.com, there is still room for innovation in the social news model. I believe one simple innovation would make these sites immensely more useful to us as a society. That innovation is, the ability of the community to link current stories to previous stories. It would be threaded conversation, with links.

If Ron Paul wins, it will be a revolution in the way society interacts with itself. It will mean disregarding the Old Media. It will mean acknowledging a sort of virtual new order.

We live in a time unlike any other. At this time, our technology has advanced more quickly than our culture. The new found ease with which people can organize to accomplish things is not fully understood. At this time we find ourselves entangled in an established corruption masquerading as constitutional republic. The Corruption extends to too many parts of the old system. It’s time for a new system!

Now is the time to push the limits of what we can accomplish with such new found ease! Now is the time for men and women to come to the aid of their country!

It is inevitable. People will organize. Things will happen.

The old media has played a major roll in politics in the past. However, times are changing. As the social web permeates deeper and deeper into mainstream culture, the establishment will find it’s influence diminished, and later dwarfed by the power of people.

The social web empowers people to decide what is relevant, what is true, and what is good. Think how much stronger and larger it is than in 2004. Now we have youtube, reddit, and facebook; and they all gain more users every day. We still have over a year until the next election. How much stronger will it be by then?

The short story The Last Question by Isaac Asimov follows a machine intelligence called multivac through eons of existence all the way to the end of time. The story is driven by people of different eras finding the same question to ask the multivac. The response is always the same. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER. In the end there is an answer, but it’s much bigger than the question asked.