We are at our best when we have a strong sense of purpose. When my consciousness is doing its proper Work, grasping some of the immense complexity of the universe, and calculating how to increase its deftness - its energy flows into my subconscious and arouses all the forces of the subconscious mind.

When conscious purpose fails, everything else slowly breaks down.

This anglospheric would-be hegemon is on its last legs. As goes the oil, and the unjust, impractical, and just plain stoopid predatory war for oil appropriation, so goes the anglospheric cultural paradigm and good riddence I say. The system of *schooling* that the oil-glutted anglospheric hegemon spawned - has outlived its usefulness. It's time to go back to the drawing boards.

I'm a throw out some dots for your connective feedback P6.

Hiphop culture is a genuine developmental culture self-arising within the interpersonal communion of *blackness*.

Open source cultureis a genuine developmental culture self-arising within the interpersonal communion of *nerdiness*.

Structurally, functionally, and psychologically, these two subcultures are strikingly similar and differ primarily in their subject matters and implementing toolsets. Both are powerful movements which have been co-opted to some extent by the hegemon. Both are influential and capable of reversing hegemonic incursion if each learns to control the integrity and commercial potential of its respective cultural intellectual properties.

Here's the third dot in which the fusion of cultural worlds could occur. Matter of fact, the use of enabling technologies to improve access to effective curricular materials would almost ensure that fusion took place. Technologies, for example, such as those we employ for all this slashdotted shadetree philosophizing.....,