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(6) Primate, come declare your faith.
Man is the creator of the Internet, the Web, the email, the chat, the blog – and primates see that it is good.
Something tells this primate we have an intelligent species here, truly Homo sapiens, a sapient human, a thinking
species. I have faith that the Blogal Village Voice can help the fight against global warming that threatens the
global village if more primates open their mouth.
Fortunately, all bloggers are driven; unfortunately, millions of primate bloggers are driven by selfish motives: they
blog only for self-expression or self-aggrandizement. That is why I write: To raise the consciousness of Blogal
Villagers from being parochial to being pivotal, from being insular to peninsular, from being narrow-minded to
broad-minded, from being present-thinking to future-thinking.
The voice of faith calls for the Blogal Village Voice, that is, us bloggers, to use the medium of the Internet to get the
message across. And we need teamwork so that we can conduct not sporadic, uncoordinated efforts but a Village
Voice Campaign – and if it’s a campaign, it must follow the AIDA precepts for the diffusion of knowledge that
graduates into a clarification of theory which must precede a determination of practice:
In all that the Blogal Village
Voice must do, it must be the
voice of peace. The premise
of war is that it is for peace –
a contradiction. I know this is
almost impossible for primate
bloggers who equate primal
freedom with primeval
license, but primal blogging
must follow AJ Muste’s
dictum: ‘There is no way to
peace; peace is the way.’
Awareness – First, we need to raise the consciousness of the
people from the ground up as well as from top to bottom, about
climate change. By awareness, I refer to an alertness or
watchfulness on changes in environmental conditions prevailing
over certain periods of time: temperature, wind, water of all forms
everywhere: rain, clouds, snow, iceberg, irrigation water,
evaporation, transpiration, groundwater.
Interest – Next, we must further raise the consciousness of those
who are already aware into the level of curiosity, further to lead
them into desiring to do something about it, whatever they can
where they can with what they have.
Decision – Then we must be able to convince those who have
expressed desire to select a path for them to take and then to
make the decision and go ahead and do what they have to do.
Action – Above all, we must get our acts together. There must be
a corporate plan in the first place. We will need to have a common
vision, a common mission to achieve that vision, and a common
goal to carry out that mission.
My primal goal in this article is not to provide the practice (what to do) but to promote the theory (what to think
before one has to do what has to be done).
Primate Change? Or Climate Change?