I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network - it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.
I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
