An Army of Davids Debate

by La Shawn on March 8, 2006

in Technology

Update (3/29): Welcome, googlers! Read the book review at Townhall.com.

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If you’ve read An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths and/or attended the debate at the National Press Club on Monday and/or want to discuss it, surf over to this post at my business blog.

I’m reviewing the book for Townhall.com and planning to write a couple of related spin-off articles. I’m looking for quotes from “ordinary people” using their blogs or other online resources to make a difference. You may also e-mail me.

Update: It’s all about regular people out there making a difference any way they can and contributing a verse to the “book of life.” We all have something worthy to say and/or do.

She Lives is getting a link for being supportive and generous. Thanks!

Back in my unbelieving days, I used to think of Walt Whitman’s poem O Me! O Life! from Leaves of Grass when I contemplated life and my part in it. That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. My favorite line. As a believer, I still like the poem, but I no longer wonder what my ultimate purpose is and what my verse may be. Christians will know what I mean. ;)

O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

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