Normally I’m so deeply focused on my clients, my projects and the input into my brain of news and information that keeps me abreast of everything in social media, that I often don’t just fool around and seek out what I love: images, video, audio and writings of times past, but it’s early on a quiet Saturday morning and I’m off on exploration adventures on the ‘net.
Knowing what has come before helps put what’s happening today in context. I often bring forth analogies of historical events in ways that helps my clients or audience see the bigger picture and gain insight into ways in which they can predict the future…or at least begin to narrow possible scenarios of what might happen in the future. This is especially important now as many clients ask if they should "rush to build a presence in Facebook or Second Life" or "do a viral video" or "with all these new social media types, what do we do?"
Adding to my thoughts for this post has been my growing feeling of dread about our great economic insecurity with our huge national debt and an influx of money into our supply causing a falling dollar; possible $3 trillion dollar cost for the Iraq war; crumbling US infrastructure; looming Social Security crisis; and the difficulty we’re having in finding out the exact nature of our woes and how perilous our situation really is right now.
Yikes. After writing that paragraph I realize how pessimistic it sounds and it’s pretty tough for a "glass is 51% full" guy like me to wallow in the crushing and accelerating issues weighing us down right now. So let’s move on…
Poking around this morning with all of these thoughts in my head, I searched Google Video for "Minnesota" just to see what was out there. I’ve found that Google Video’s are usually more meaningful vs. YouTube’s jumping, lip-synching "musicians" (ooh…I know that’s an unfair comparison but couldn’t resist) and I found a wonderful historical one entitled, "Cradle of the Father of Waters 1938" which I’ve embedded after the jump…and was surprised by the thoughts it sparked.
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