One of your best.
Shouldn't have read that before Thanksgiving dinner.
But your analysis sure nailed it. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
Should be turned into a vitriol-dripping LTE. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
I still believe that an edited book of ET discussions on a wide variety of subjects would be useful. It could be a hyperlinked pdf book or a real book or magazine.
The point is this: the purpose of editing is to customise content for a particular audience. ie to ensure that content is provided in a form suitable for the people who it is intended to affect. There are not so many who are prepared or equipped to read acres of nuanced comment as we do here. (knowing that insights are present, but that they require work on the part of the reader to bring into tactile form).
There is much to be said for getting exposure in the 'niche' fora (like the FT eg) - but the real prize is to make complex issues understandable to a wider audience - and activate them. This is the most difficult part IMO. You can't be me, I'm taken
Find an Intelectual celebrity and have them pictured reading it on holiday (or one who wants to appear as intelectual)?
(The first sentance is serious, the second not so) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
As to how, I don't know. I do believe that there is a slow cumulative effect going on (as always) which will one day lead to a tipping point. The question is: can we do anything to accelerate toward that destinaton? You can't be me, I'm taken
Set a Episodic series, a la The West Wing or Twin Peaks, in 'ETopia' demonstrating the very real problems, successes, inter-personal foo-foo, external conflicts, & etc and how the community deals with them, or fails to deal with them. Perhaps intermixing "Reality footage" with the "Fictional footage?"
I freely admit I know very little about the actuality of show business but it seems to me the primary 'hump' a mass media show needs to get over is audience identification and emotional involvement with the characters.
So ...
Perhaps Northern Exposure's sense of life, sitz im leben, would be a better paradigm?
And, taking off from something ceeb suggested, as a tie-in create a Second Life virtual reality that viewers could join (for a fee?) so they could interact with the show?
You could set it in New Mexico and star a grumpy applied epistemologist. :-0
