Posted on 10/01/2016 7:57:54 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
It is almost certain that with giving the internet to "the world", that people with voices who say certain things run the risk of being silenced.
One possible solution: You should record an audiobook. Here's why.
As an example, one audiobook that I recorded was The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, which highlights the black patriots that fought side by side against the British for American Independence and liberty. I completed that entire book on Valentines Day of this year, the day believed by some to be Frederick Douglass' birthday.
Why is this book important? Have you ever run into this meme that the Founding Fathers are supposedly racist? Well, I don't think one single book is going to put it to bed, and I certainly acknowledge that I can't possibly record every possible thing myself, however, these facts being so easily available, and so easily consumable, present quite a conundrum for those progressives who seek to keep "the narrative" alive. We need more. If more were available, there's a potential it could present a credible, visible threat.
Currently, there are roughly 3800 people who have been to this page, which is a fair estimate of at least how many people have listened to that book. That's 3800 in 8 months, and will certainly be over 4000 by year's end. The number who have listened is likely to be far higher, considering indirect mobile downloads and the like. But that's a number we can work with.
Think of that: That's nearly 4000 people I've educated about a topic that progressives would prefer people didn't know. If that number pattern stays true, at the end of the next year it will be 8000. In 5 years it will be 20,000.
Wouldn't you like to educate 20,000 people in five years about inconvenient facts? What kind of cultural impact does that have?
Here's how this relates to the internet giveaway. As I said at the outset, there will be voices who are silenced. I hardly think that audiobook recording is any kind of silver bullet, but I've yet to find any downside while conversely I can clearly demonstrate the upsides. The upsides are self-evident.
I'll give you another example, one which I think there might be some takers to my proposition. Have you ever run into the meme that there was no Christianity of any kind during the time of the American founding? Yeah, there were no pastors, that's it. And they certainly didn't discuss any political topics! The easiest way to combat that meme would be to record some sermons. Virtually everything prior to 1923 is public domain. Early American sermons, from pastors who were acknowledged to be highly influential in the years directly prior to the event of the Founding; the years that made the Founding possible. I know of several sermons that would be great candidates for recording, and several works of the Founders that have not yet been attempted. I, unfortunately, can't record everything on the planet in relation to these topics. At some point, someone will have to help.
I give all my audiobooks away for free. I'm not selling any thing here. Only, an idea. But selling you the idea isn't going to cost any money.
Making information easier to consume - that's a problem for the progressives. I'll gladly do that for free.
But, I do have one alternative, for those of you who would recoil at the idea. Here's what you should do. Do nothing. Sit there behind your keyboard. Do what you've been doing, because that's worked so well so far? It perturbs me to be harsh and I apologize in advance, but anything rooted in facts, and rooted in facts that are easier to consume(meaning faster), will present a little bit more of a challenge for anybody seeking the route of censorship. We need more, no matter how small that 'more' may appear to be. We have the power to give ourselves more. We don't have to wait for someone else to do it.
I'm looking to educate you, all I ask is that you are willing to listen. I'll give you every one of the mp3s as fast as you can download them. Now, I would like to find some people who would like to educate me. I'm willing to listen.
One thing I've noticed within the blogosphere is the tendency for people to focus exclusively upon their own opinion. This is not me saying that that is bad. I do it myself from time to time on my blog. But here is a converse thought.
The Founding Fathers - they speak for me. So I speak for them. And you can speak for them too. Why do you and I need to formulate new, additional words, when some of the best words that need to be spoken have already been spoken? They just weren't recorded. Ok, great! The only thing that is missing, is that microphones didn't exist in 1776 or 1753. That's not a problem. It's not.
We can rectify that. We have microphones. Download the transcript, and read it verbatim. For those of you who agree with me: if you can raise your hand and say "yes, the Founders speak for me",(or the pastors of that era) then it is likely that speaking for them may present a prospect that might be worth considering.
You going to be on Mars in a decade? No. Where will you be then? How about your kids or grandkids? You think they'll be on Jupiter in 30 years? No. We will all be here, they will all be here. If anything, time is an upside, not a downside. Read one of these books to your kids through a mic. The audio will last longer than all of us will. How's that for passing on a generational gift?
For your consideration.
Hww do you do a ebook or audio book?
[You think they’ll be on Jupiter in 30 years? No. We will all be here, they will all be here.]
Maybe not...
Ping to my friends..............
Welcome to ObamaNet just one of the Freedoms(that goes for everyone) Obama wants you to give up
Step 1: Find a pre-1923 text you like.
Step 2: Download Audacity, its free open source software. http://www.audacityteam.org/
Step 3: Microphone and talking.
Step 4: Export mp3 files and upload.
I record and upload my audiobooks through LibriVox because they already have infrastructure(such as a mobile app) and a large listener base. I don’t see much need to re-invent the wheel.
https://librivox.org/pages/volunteer-for-librivox/
They have great how-to’s that describe how to use Audacity to improve the quality of your audio recording in just a few clicks.
http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Noise_Cleaning
There are other ways to upload a work, which I would be glad to show how.
Librivox is a great resource. I never knew that ‘audiobooks’ were really for me, until I downloaded a few Librivox recordings on religious and philosophical topics.
I tried Audible, but they don’t seem to allow transferring to MP3, which is my preferred way of listening while I travel around doing things. And Librivox is free.
Unfortunately the Founding Fathers were what is now considered racists.
Few if any of those black slaves who fought in the American Revolution were ever set free, and given equal rights alongside white men.
OTOH the British in Canada gave freedom to every one of the slaves who fought as Loyalists.
So the black Loyalists in Canada had their freedom by 1784 while the descendants of those still in the states had to wait until 1865.
Icann now controls the Internet. The USA controlled the Internet from its beginning in the early 1990’s to yesterday.
The UN( The evil cabal of authoritarian dictators and Islamics) controls Icann which controls the Internet now thanks to evil Obama giving it away to them.
anyone who thinks these villains, won't try to censor the Internet is insane.
Just one way they could do it is to put pressure on search engines like Google to put websites that they don't approve on black lists(remove them from search results so people can't find these websites).
when will this start? who knows but as the years go on you will see less and less websites that don't espouse what these villains believe, nothing about freedom, nothing good, nothing critical of Islam , nothing pro USA or conservatism etc.
Very interesting idea that I will share with my tech wife who is wound up on this internet transfer
Re black patriots I’ had thought this a good point for Trump to echo.
That the first blacks arrived in America in 1617 and the last slave ship 1859, many blacks have been Americans longer than us European descendants.
Like the divide of liberals and conservatives so is there a divide amongst black America along the same line.
When I see how well blacks perform as athelites, play music, make me laugh as comedians, go to church, how well conservative blacks can fight I hope their movement towards conservative values grows.
Thanks for your research and outreach
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I applaud the spirit of your post, but....
One INTENTIONAL errant keystroke in the database we just handed over and nobody will be able to get to your or my/our new audio books.
Say you spread the word again. The errant keystroke could periodically change.
Imagine some single entity controlled online phone registries. And, your name was known for being politically active and people wanted to contact you. But, this entity in control chose to, delay inclusion of your name and number; misspell your name; perpetually change your name in the database. One week your Pete J Smith...next week your list as Robert S. Smith.
In other words, what good is an audio book nobody can find on the Internet.
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ Canada
http://gutenberg.net.au/greatest-books-a.html Australia
https://www.gutenberg.org/ USA
Doesn’t that run into copyright laws? There aren’t any Richard Marcinko audiobooks, and that’s probably by his decision.
To be honest, sounds to me like a great way to have multiple lawsuits thrown at you.
Not quite true.
At the time of the American Revolution half of all blacks in the colonies were freemen. Most of those blacks who fought in the Revolution were not slaves, they were free.
Also, keep in mind that half of all black slaves were owned by black slave owners.
The very first slave owner in the colonies was black. He was also reputed to be the most vicious slaver in the south.
There were more white slaves in the north than black slaves. Altogether there were nearly as many white slaves as black.
Black slaves in the colonies represented about 10% of the total number of black slaves in the Caribbean and South America. That is, slavery in Mexico, Brazil and the Caribbean accounted for 90% of all slaves in the Americas.
Let’s say an audio book on one of the domain you listed goes viral...
With access to this database they can very quickly re-associate those domain names you listed with porn sites...particularly vile porn sites.
All the keepers of the database we handed over have to do is sit back and watch the traffic, if that traffic is headed toward a politically incorrect audio book, video, article...they can just redirect the traffic.
Thanks. Never heard of Librivox.
Sounds like a great resource. The audio CDs that libraries offer are cumbersome and not as convenient as you might think.
Car radio shows can be entertaining, but you are stuck with a ton of advertisements.
This Librivox sounds like the perfect alternative.
These are some interesting things you say. What is your main source of knowledge on slavery?
Thanks.
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