Awake Ye Sleepwalkers

'My pet peeve about blogging is how navel-gazing and reverential it is.' - Toby Shabshak

I'm crossing my fingers. Blogs potentially have incredible power to invisibly adjust the popular mindset. To mobilise a lot of people. Imagine if a few bloggers decide to do something real about...say, the problems in South Africa. Imagine if say, someone said: "To heck with it, I will raise my hand, my voice, and take a stand. Whose coming with me? Whose coming with me?" Granted, many may reject this Jerry Maguire moment, laughing it off as hubris. But others, sensing sincerity, might say: let's do something real here.

Is a documentary about reality real? Or is it still just TV, infotainment, people lounging in their chairs, nodding. Would it be enough to develop a campaign that shows in detail what South Africa is experiencing, and where it is going? Going behind the scenes into homes all over South Africa, talking to corporate players, opinion leaders, the rich and poor, looking at the graphs and stats - and finding out what people are experiencing and what they are doing, and thinking about all this. I have a feeling we are all sort've going: well maybe, hopefully things will just, like, improve. We could call it: Sleepwalking Into The Future - a glimpse inside South Africa.

Or we could start a political party. Is that the way to effect change, to own a fragment of the political process? To setup leadership for the people, by the bloggers? B4BF - Bloggers 4 a Better Future. You could have a SA unit, and then international parties.

I see it happening. Not now. Perhaps later this afternoon ;-) We need a bit more gloom and doom for the imperative to become a little clearer. Howz your water? Still palatable?