在国内访问youtube，只须在hosts文件中增加两行内容：

203.208.39.104 www.youtube.com
203.208.33.100 gdata.youtube.com

对高级计算机用户，上面一段足够了。但这件事，要向不同水平的作者说清楚，考虑到他们可能不知道何为hosts，不知道如何编辑，难度就非常大了。所以，我深能明白和菜头写作《 手把手教你访问Youtube（图文）》时的用心之处——考虑不同windows版本、用户权限、甚至windows不一定装在C盘，所以，给出了最通用的操作步骤：查找hosts，双击打开，选记事本（原贴图中高亮了“写字板”，容易让阅读不仔细的人误解，不过，也影响不大），增加两行。

对于上述情况，我想不出更清晰的表达方式了。但如果稍降低一下适用范围，考虑到这些用户多数应该是“ windows xp, c盘, 管理员权限”，就可以给出一个对他们而言更简单的方法——批处理（就象以前推荐《EasyIP:批处理切换IP地址》 一样）：

复制下面两行到记事本，保存为 a.bat，双击 a.bat。

echo 203.208.39.104 www.youtube.com >> c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc\hosts
echo 203.208.33.100 gdata.youtube.com >> c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc\hosts

或者，点击开始→运行，先输入上面第一行，回车；再输入第二行，再回车。

一入室盗窃犯用房主的手机来了张自拍照片，临走时，却忘记把手机带走……(如图)

这事发生在美国弗吉尼亚州Suffolk，6月早些时候。

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I was told that every blog needs a "top 10 post" and I thought today would be a good day to write one on a topic that is growing in popularity. That topic is Twitter and how best to use this tool for your B2B marketing efforts. I thought I would take a stab at providing tips on blending a tried and true tool like email with Twitter. Let me know what you think and if you have additional tips (let's see if Darren Rowse from Twitip is listening)

10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B

1. Add a link to your company's Twitter account to all mass email communications. Consider adding a link in the email footer to items such as your event invitations or email newsletters. This tip is especially important for any resource or newsletter autoresponder subscription emails. I've found that the autoresponder email from BreakingPoint does this quite well (and has an excellent newsletter!).

Quick note here: I already assumed that your company created a Twitter account. You can find many other blog posts out there on that subject. Here is a great one that should scare you into getting one: Don’t get BrandJacked: Confirming Your Corporate Twitter Account

2. Link to a form landing page from your company Twitter account. For example if you have a Twitter post such as "New white paper on how to increase ROI". Upon clicking on the link to the white paper, direct "Tweeple" (twitter people) to a landing page where you request their email address to get access to the white paper if you don't already have it. In this way you're converting your twitter followers into opted-in email subscribers.

3. Use Twitter content in your email newsletters. For example, create a feature called "Twitter Q/A". In this section, address questions/comments that came up on Twitter and what the response was. This goes back to being an Eco-Marketer

4. Post links from your email newsletter articles on Twitter. Instead of including one twit that says: "Check out the latest newsletter" and links back to your main newsletter page, consider seeding individual articles on Twitter over a period of time (say a week). You can use a tool like Brightkit to pre-schedule your twits in advance. Companies should make each twit count and make the content as interesting as possible.

5. Ensure that all email newsletter article authors have their Twitter account listed on the email. This allows recipients to continue the conversation after they read the article. You may want to have a Twitter account for anyone mentioned in your marketing emails. This will require the individual to listen and contribute on Twitter which is a good thing (even if they object) :). A definite email best practice is personalization and I believe that Twitter is just an extension of this.

6. Provide instructions in your emails about how subscribers can follow conversations about your company on Twitter. For example, if you are promoting an event in your email, let subscribers know that they they can twit about the event using the hashtag character #. For example #myevent. You would replace "myevent" with the name of the event. You can instruct event registrants to use Twemes to follow the Twitter conversation about the event. Have a look at Karl Roche's excellent post on Twitter for events for more information.

7. Ask email subscribers for their Twitter ID when they sign up. Experiment with an optional field on a few key web registration forms and see how this affects your conversion rate. I recommend mentioning that you will follow the person if they provide their Twitter ID. This may an incentive enough as Tweeple are looking to get as many followers as possible.

8. On your email preference page, indicate to those who may want to unsubscribe that they can still follow you on Twitter. While you may have lost the person from your email list, you keep them in your community. This is the strength of Twitter and how it can be leveraged to enhance your existing marketing efforts.

9. Add a link in your emails and/or on your website that allows email subscribers and web visitors to easily tweet about an article, event or promotion. I learned this from Mr. Tweet. All you need to do is link to Twitter with the following URL: http://twitter.com/home?status= and add in a message under 140 characters after the "=" sign. Here is an example: http://twitter.com/home?status=Great post on Anything Goes Marketing: "10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B" http://twurl.nl/sd7i43. This makes the process of spreading the word about your email article extremely easy. Does it take more time? Yes. Will it drive more traffic and help you get further bang for your email buck? Most likely. All you have to do is test it out.

10. Conduct Twitter interviews and use this as content for your email marketing. This type of "Twitterview" could be with a customer, partner, company exec (or any other employee), or industry thought leader. What makes Twitter great is that these types of interviews are easy to do and you can use email to promote these as "live events" as well. Here is an interview that Ann Handley from MarketingProfs did which is a great example of how easy this is.

I hope you have found this useful and please contribute additional tips by adding your own comments below.

Chad H
www.twitter.com/chadhorenfeldt

PS: If you found this useful, please tweet about it.

Technorati tags: Twitter, Darren Rowse, MarketingProfs, Email Marketing, Twitterview, E-mail marketing,web 2.0., Twitter and email marketing

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前日，在讨论Android的营销战略的文章中，余提出了以潜在用户中最具影响力的“核心圈”为主要营销目标的观点。而DELL在Twitter上创造的营销案例无疑又是一个抓住核心圈的成功营销方案。同时，也带给了我们一些在web2.0上进行营销的启示:

DELL在Twitter上的登录，不仅仅是为其增加了一个相对廉价的广告与价值传递途径，而是将Twitter作为其营销目标的筛选工具，得到其前销售目标人群中最有影响力的 群体。在此，我们重申一个事实，无论你掌握的资讯有多么完备，在决策时接受人际圈中某领域（如IT）”专家”建议的概率总是非常之大。朋友的建议，尤其是 某领域中“专家”的建议对于在该领域内作出决策时，有着至关重要的作用。那么，回到Twitter上，首先其庞大的用户量必然是电脑使用者（DELL的目 标用户）的一个真子集，而这部分用户中自然也有一个子集是积极的电脑爱好者（发烧友），同时分别在其人际圈内充当电脑设备领域的“专家”。DELL在 Twitter上发布其包括“过季打折产品”在内的货物 ，特价与需要一定的技术含量来进行把玩让其followers大多数属于前述的电脑爱好者（发烧友）与“专家”。DELL通过Twitter精准地将其促 销与客户服务信息传递给这些“专家”，而通过这些“专家”的带动，影响了其人际圈内朋友（希望购买电脑的朋友）的购买倾向与意愿，使得DELL的 Twitter营销获得了极好的效果。

这就是Web2.0带给我们带来的营销便利——潜在客户中最具影响力人群的筛选工具！而这些筛选出来的用户同时也必然是web2.0的积极使用者。那么，在筛选这些具备影响力的用户同时，web2.0用户创造内容的哲学可以进一步发挥出巨大的作用；不单单是用户创造内容，甚至是用户来创造产品。

第一，以激励的体制来增加目标用户散发其影响力的概率。诚如之前对Android营销战略的探讨，彼用Android Market上的成就感来激励编程爱好者将此系统推销给他们圈子里的朋友。这是自建平台，如果像DELL一样，利用现有平台的话，亦可以用优惠券的方式，来激励这些“专家”。借用施兄的一个案例：下载一个彩铃，并分享给他的朋友，在这个过程中分享广告分成。窃以为，通过类似的利益激励方式，可以对目标用户增加影响力大有裨益。

第二，公开、可追踪的服务信息与改善建议。增加公开的口碑与评价，提高社区的粘性，把营销方的人气巩固住，形成了好的氛围。同时，产品中还可以打上这些“专家”建议的烙印，例如在线上呈现出“这是XX帮我组装的电脑”的情况。

Web2.0最大的财富就是积极使用者，他们或为其人际圈中具备影响力的“专家”。聚焦到了这些专家，就能把Web2.0服务变成一个高效、低价的营销工具。 在为诸如SNS、MicroBlog等web2.0的盈利模式苦恼的同时，我想了解web2.0服务所拥有的用户、细分这些用户、理解他们的差异与需求， 才是问题的根本。这不仅仅是web2.0服务商所必须要明确的核心信息，亦是这些服务商埋单人所关注的最重要因素。然而，放眼望去，即便是能说清楚的，又 有几人欤？

一家之言，止曾笑尔.

小沈阳自春晚之后就没消停过！

喜欢他的，说他给观众带来了欢乐；不喜欢他的，说他的表演太俗，又不男不女的！就我个人而言，还是喜欢他多一些。

小沈阳的表演，没有给人高高在上的感觉，也很少跟观众要掌声，是一种把自己作为艺人，而非艺术家的态度。至于说他不男不女，我看更多的是“阳春白雪”在评价他，“阳春白雪”喜欢赵玉刚，不喜欢小沈阳！

对小沈阳的批评，归根结底，是一场“阳春白雪”的审美观与“下里巴人”的审美观之间的较量。亦因话语权更多的掌握在“阳春白雪”手里，小沈阳处于劣势。

这里无意为小沈阳“平反”，任何人，都是有缺点的，更何况他这样从基层摸爬滚打出来的艺人-----比如我看到他在某次参加电视节目时，说观众“真尿性”，尽管他后来又解释了此词在东北话中的含义，但还是让我很不爽。

中国长期以来的城乡两元化发展格局，造成了农村人不了解城里人，城里人不了解农村人的格局。反映在思想上，就是城里人（具体说是白领以上）对乡俗文化嗤之以鼻；而农村人，对高雅艺术又欣赏不了。

窃以为，艺术分什么高雅与通俗？只要能给人带来快乐的艺术，都是好艺术！----快乐分为愉悦的快乐（如戏剧）和悲伤的快乐（如悲剧）等等。

小沈阳的表演，能给部分观众带来愉悦，不带明显的黄赌毒，就让喜欢的观众看吧，阳春白雪，请放下里巴人一马！

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南方周末还是有点良心的，尽管现在也做些软广告，在广告最后面加上AD两个字母，但毕竟刊登了这篇文章。

可以想象，如果今年的大旱，影响到城市的生活，媒体的报道力度将是多大，相关部门会是多么重视，而一切的一切，只在中*&央表明中国粮食是安全的之后，就偃旗息鼓了，没有人去为靠天吃饭的农民考虑下一步的生计.........

原文如下：

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2009年北方大旱，已经成为年度公众关注的第一个全局性事件，干旱的严重性使人们再次感受到了人类在自然灾变面前的乏力，从而引发人们对发展模式的思索。

　　我们很难想象，如果大旱影响到的不是乡村，而是城市，将会是多么震撼的事情。但大旱只是影响到乡村的耕 种和生活，城市一切如常，甚至流水潺潺的景观也不受影响地在运转。用于保证农业用水的水库，功能也变成保证城市用水。城市集中了人口，也集中了经济力量、 话语能力和社会关系，这为城市赢得了“确保”的资格和条件。在吃下城市生活将不会受影响的定心丸以后，大旱和抗旱因为有些像是“远方”的事件而多少有了一些戏剧化效果。

　　这种效果，显示了工业文明、城市文明对农业文明、乡村文明的战胜。诚然，社会的发展很难让人们都去当田 园牧歌的捍卫者，城市化、工业化作为经济模式，必然会取代乡村和农业成为人类经济活动的基本场域；但所有这些都不意味着城市化可以通过吞噬乡村的方式来实 现。鉴于资源的有限性，城市以较少的资源使用，以集约、稳定而大量的产出，与乡村实现公道基础上的交换，这大概是理想城市化道路。尽管再理想的城市化都会 让人在情感上产生复杂的感受，既陶醉于城市的夜色，又叹惋于牧歌的消失，但是以交换的方式，哪怕交换是不十分公平的交换，也比以吞噬的方式实现城市化人道 得多。

　　我们已经看到，随着工业和贸易的兴盛，世界近代化过程产生了包括“羊吃人”和殖民扩张在内的痛苦，城市化的输血管道上倒伏着大量的受难者。作为现代化的后发者，中国的城市化运动应当探索尽可能减少痛苦的方式，城乡一体化发展、科学发展、统筹发展、新型工业化城市化等等表述中，隐含着“美好城市化”的期待。

　　但是，现实中我们往往看到另外的景象。有舆论认为，城市的恶性膨胀是农业受旱主因。这还未能道及城市恶性膨胀是何种性质的恶性膨胀，是源于何种力量的恶性膨胀。显然，中国城市并不像世界上其他发展中国家的城市一样，单纯是人口大量集聚产生了贫民窟，那样的恶性膨胀并不足以形成水资源调拨使用的巨大不公平。

　　中国的城市化过程，表现为权力主导下的造城运动，很容易变成城市对乡村的调拨和征用，有时这种调拨和征用甚至发生在一个城市与另一个城市之间。 一个地方首先成为权力的中心，或者权力意图的所在，然后成为经济中心、文化中心、交通中心等等不仅水到渠成，而且似乎顺理成章。与之相应地，城市从土地、 水、矿产到资金、劳动和包括户籍区隔在内的社会关系，无孔不入地收复了乡村。城市甚至生产了一种自我满足的情感方式，使得注意力和同情心都尽量不溢出到乡 村地带。

　　由此，城市成为了一种权力体制，成为一种政治构筑，哪一级权力的驻在地，就是哪一级的征收者，当权力从 一个地方换成驻在另一个地方时，各种中心也会毫不费力地转移，商埠已经失去了传统意义，权力在哪里驻扎，哪里就成了繁华之地，近畿和边鄙也依权力的等级而 定义。可以说，中国的任何一座城市几乎都成为了 “政治城市”，权力驻在及权力的兴奋点决定了它们各方面的规模、形制和等级。这似乎是一种“人定胜天”，实质上却斫丧了城市和乡村的活力，但城市和乡村的不同点在于，城市生长活力的斫伤得到了征用乡村的补偿，而乡村则是彻底的丧失。

　　恢复城市作为市的属性，变权力主导的城市化为市场主导的城市化，并且使权力成为城乡交换公平的保证，而不是征用乡村以供养城市、征用各方以供养某一城市的制度，才可能有“新型工业化、城市化”，否则中国的城市化不仅难言新型，可能还将蕴含特殊的社会风险。(作者:刘洪波) ------------------------

Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea.  There’s only one problem with it.  It’s stupid!  It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income!  This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb?  Because you only get paid when you’re working.  Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working?  Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working?  Who taught you that you could only earn income while working?  Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too?  Why not get paid 24/7?  Get paid whether you work or not.  Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them?  Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work?  Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office.  Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60.  But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it.  We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive.  Do you really care how long it took me to write this article?  Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path.  So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered.  Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way.  And of course there is a better way.  The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income.  This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work.  The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not.  From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system.  At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either.  I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year.  The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account.  It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway.  But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right?  Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name).  Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems.  But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs.  Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money?  If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead.  If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free.  As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged.  Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it.  How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway.  You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave.  This isn’t all or nothing.  If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.

You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience.  But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf.  You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not.  A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all.  Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.

The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over.  You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate.  This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable.  And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat.  In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years.  Will your job even exist then?

Consider this.  Which experience would you rather gain?  The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again?  Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience.  That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?

3. Lifelong domestication.

Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program.  You learn how to be a good pet.

Look around you.  Really look.  What do you see?  Are these the surroundings of a free human being?  Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals?  Have you fallen in love with the color beige?

How’s your obedience training coming along?  Does your master reward your good behavior?  Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?

Is there any spark of free will left inside you?  Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?

Humans are not meant to be raised in cages.  You poor thing…

4. Too many mouths to feed.

Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is.  In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes.  The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck.  But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits.  Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it.  You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.

Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors.  That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income.  After all, who has more control over the tax system?  Business owners and investors or employees?

You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate.  Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see.  It goes straight into other people’s pockets.

What a generous person you are!

5. Way too risky.

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

Morons.

Social conditioning is amazing.  It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.

Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you?  Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?

The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly.  You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone.  If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.

6. Having an evil bovine master.

When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way.  When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”

Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master?  Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.”  And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.

So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you?  Nothing but a turd in the herd.

Who’s your daddy?

7. Begging for money.

When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money?  Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?

Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?

If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”

8. An inbred social life.

Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet.  They hang out with the same people working in the same field.  Such incestuous relations are social dead ends.  An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens.  Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers.  Ooooh… scary!  Better stay inside where it’s safe.

If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend?  If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist?  Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you?  Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate.  Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!

9. Loss of freedom.

It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee.  The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will.  A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations.  This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible.  Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question.  Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.

As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on.  We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we?  That would ruin everything.

God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy.  Oh no, it’s the end of the world!  Cindy has a plant on her desk!  Summon the enforcers!  Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!

Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course.  The only policy they need is:  “Be smart.  Be nice.  Do what you love.  Have fun.”

10. Becoming a coward.

Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies?  But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault.  It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards.  If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free.  You’ve become your master’s property.

When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you?  Of course it will.  It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear:  first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will.  You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion.  And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.

I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down.  It is never too late to regain your courage.  Never!

Still want a job?

If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness.  It’s all part of the conditioning.  But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all.  This is only a reminder of what you already know.  You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there.  Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.

If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction.  Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time.  Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy.  If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage.  And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.

Happily jobless

What’s the alternative to getting a job?  The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means.  Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.  One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business.  Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it.  It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy.  Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.

And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value.  So even your mistakes can be monetized.

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这几天一直在追看凤凰卫视的“凤凰大视野 血色黄昏 李鸿章的洋务生涯”，对整个大清朝的认识也算是提升了一步----毕竟这几年，嘻嘻闹闹（小燕子）抑或尔虞我诈（这王朝那王朝的）的清宫戏看得太多了，对于这样的一部纪录片类型的片子，反而颇感亲切。

李鸿章的确是一个人才，即便是在现在，也很难能找到能超越他的人，如果有兴趣，大家可以BT下载一下这个节目。

从李鸿章的身上，我们看到的不仅仅是一个封建士大夫的保守，更能看到的是：
1、中华民族的文化凝聚力：上初/高中的时候，李是作为一个卖国贼进入我这样的'祖国花骨朵”的视野的。如节目中所说，在《马关条约》签订之后，李发誓再不踏入日本国土一步，以至在李晚年周游西方各国途径日本换船时，也要在船之间架上甲板，不踏日本国土。可见当初对他的伤害至深！-----谁愿意去做卖国贼，背上千古骂名？在当时的国情下，他只是一个背黑锅的人而已，不是李鸿章去签这个条约，就是别人去签这个条约，别人去签，99%的可能是丧权辱国的条款更多、赔的钱更多、割的地更多！-----李鸿章是当时整个大清国最懂洋务的人了吧。在中华民族强大文化的熏陶下，要做出卖国的事情，很难很难！
2、中华民族的生命力：很悲哀，我们是在被西方列强、日本欺负的过程中表现出了坚韧的生命力，所谓“中国人民是不可战胜的”，可能就是因为这种坚韧吧。李从办团练到办洋务再到搞外交，一步一步，希望把中国带入富强大国的行列，可在和老太太（慈禧）和小孩子（光绪）的周旋中，他实在难以展开手脚，但他在努力-----中华民族一直不乏忧国忧民之士！
3、中华民族的排外性：中华民族一直自封为天朝，为万国之中央，所谓的“海纳百川”，不过是自欺欺人罢了。在中华文化，或经济，或军事不如别人时，总有大批的人，用谩骂、撒泼等等的方式，消极对待国外先进，积极维护自己的“尊严”与利益。这也是中国吸纳国外精华，尤其是文化精华一直比较难的原因。我们习惯了动辄拿出四大发明来往自己脸上贴金。

一部好的纪录片，能让人想到很多。

进而想到上期《南方周末》的“专访柳斌杰：新闻出版改革下一步”这个报道，很搞笑，中国要在国际新闻报道中有话语权，是靠投入大量资金扶持大企业吗？是靠体制改革真正实现优胜劣汰吗？不是，都不是!是靠提升国民素质，国民素质提升不上去，你的新闻水平也上不去-----一个习惯于每天7点准时收看新闻联播的国家，一个关心张三丢狗李四丢猫的国家，他的国民怎么会喜欢看深度的新闻报道？？？？？？？？

中国网民数量好像是世界第一了吧？但：我们有多少人口，网民的比例是多少？网民中，上网聊天、玩游戏的比例是多少？这样的网民，能代表公民素质的提升吗？

老柳啊老柳，你的决心很大，将来的效果，很小很小。

好久不写博客了，胡言乱语，发发牢骚吧。