Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Horton Hears MOJO JOJO, THE 100TH MONKEY
For over a year now, as I have gone about my business on YouTube, and MySpace, the best analogy in my mind that I could come up with was "Horton Hears a Who!"
And the Universe in its mystical abundance and synchronistic style seems to offer up almost magically at this juncture in history, a movie version of the cartoon and book I remember seeing and reading all those years ago, almost as a way of helping me make my point. Indeed, I feel that I am lot like little JoJo of Who-ville. From Wikipedia: "The Whos finally make themselves heard by ensuring that all members of their society play their part. In the end it is the smallest Who of all, Jo-Jo, who provides the last volume lift to be heard, thus reinforcing the moral of "a person’s a person no matter how small."
And here I am, striving at almost impossible odds to make my little voice be heard, thinking that if enough people hear my songs, watch my videos; maybe just maybe I might make a little magic happen.
The other analogy is the 100th Monkey Syndrome. From Wikipeda: "The "Hundredth Monkey Effect" is a theory that a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached. By generalization it means the instant, paranormal spreading of an idea or ability to the remainder of a population once a certain portion of that population has heard of the new idea or learned the new ability."
Indeed, MySpace and YouTube have provided wonderful mediums for all of us, to share our own creative efforts as well as support and enjoy the creative efforts of others. And so you can understand how I see myself somewhat as cheerleader of a worldwide "loosely-connected" group of people who believe that the best answer to all life’s problems is L O V E, as expounded by Christ and exemplified by the compassion of the Buddha. And we are a lot like the Whos of Who-ville trying to make enough noise to wake up that 100th monkey thus spreading the ideas of love, peace and forgiveness to all of humanity.
And the Universe in its mystical abundance and synchronistic style seems to offer up almost magically at this juncture in history, a movie version of the cartoon and book I remember seeing and reading all those years ago, almost as a way of helping me make my point. Indeed, I feel that I am lot like little JoJo of Who-ville. From Wikipedia: "The Whos finally make themselves heard by ensuring that all members of their society play their part. In the end it is the smallest Who of all, Jo-Jo, who provides the last volume lift to be heard, thus reinforcing the moral of "a person’s a person no matter how small."
And here I am, striving at almost impossible odds to make my little voice be heard, thinking that if enough people hear my songs, watch my videos; maybe just maybe I might make a little magic happen.
The other analogy is the 100th Monkey Syndrome. From Wikipeda: "The "Hundredth Monkey Effect" is a theory that a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached. By generalization it means the instant, paranormal spreading of an idea or ability to the remainder of a population once a certain portion of that population has heard of the new idea or learned the new ability."
Indeed, MySpace and YouTube have provided wonderful mediums for all of us, to share our own creative efforts as well as support and enjoy the creative efforts of others. And so you can understand how I see myself somewhat as cheerleader of a worldwide "loosely-connected" group of people who believe that the best answer to all life’s problems is L O V E, as expounded by Christ and exemplified by the compassion of the Buddha. And we are a lot like the Whos of Who-ville trying to make enough noise to wake up that 100th monkey thus spreading the ideas of love, peace and forgiveness to all of humanity.
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