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A television show has already led me to meet hundreds of new people in recent months. I read their emails, talk to them on the phone, interview them on television, and hear their stories, because I believe we can wake up in a different world one of these days.
It is a central myth. Call it heaven, nirvana, or utopia, we have hungered to walk a different road and find something of immense value at the end of a rainbow. Oh, how I longed as a little boy for that pot of gold. It is a powerful and enduring desire.
On Oct. 23, The Connection Independent Television will debut in a cable market with a potential audience of 150,000. And anybody on earth with high speed Internet can watch on the web. Do they all share the vision of our version of television? Well, of course, everybody wants things to be better.
Some of us want it better in some ways. Others of us have a different way, but who in their right mind would be perfectly happy with things the way they are?
One of my favorite writers is the late Indian teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti. He wrote:
"One must have this total discontent - but with joy. Do you understand? One must be wholly discontented, not complainingly, but with joy, with gaiety, with love. Most people who are discontented are terrible bores; they are always complaining that something or other is not right, or wishing they were in a better position, or wanting circumstances to be different, because their discontent is very superficial. And those who are not discontented at all are already dead.
"If you can be in revolt while you are young, and as you grow older keep your discontent alive with the vitality of joy and great affection, then that flame of discontent will have an extraordinary significance because it will build, it will create, it will bring new things into being."
I know that is a very long quote, but if someone were to ask for a detailed explanation of what I'm trying to accomplish by traveling all over South Carolina, talking to people, interviewing people, and broadcasting this television show, I think that quote would be a pretty thorough answer.

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