It is a feed that goes from their satellites directly into our brains, conditioning, narrowing, limiting, and shrinking our entire perspective on our world. The feed tells us what is important, and, by elimination, what is not. Its influence is so powerful that the things it doesn't tell us about, we don't even know exist. It tells us "don't go away," and "stay tuned for breaking news," 24 hours a day, lest we get a glimpse of a world outside its presentation. For the most part, that presentation consists of an ongoing soap opera in Washington, wherein the ups and downs of the lives of 10 or 20 political celebrities are made to seem as if they are the levers that control all of life on our planet; as if the influence of the other 5,999,999,990 people on earth doesn't matter. Occasionally this soap opera is interrupted with special reports of a missing person, or celebrity court case or a natural disaster. Ominous, or alternatively, adrenaline-pumping music is played in the background to keep our interest in this world at the highest possible level of tension.

There is an alternative media that captures some of these stories, Great websites like TreeHugger capture cool environmental news every day. Gizmodo and slashdot offer news on new technological advances. But the majority of these sites focus their reporting on one sector, and we found there was no one place you could go to find out about world-changing news across every sector; a site where a story on a revolutionary advance in AIDS would sit next to a story on a transformative peace initiative in Gaza which would face a story about a new solar cell production technique, which would follow a story about new micro- lending techniques that could spell the end of extreme poverty. We built CThings to fill that need.

CThings is not just about good news or positive news. Our aim is deeper than that. We are looking for the people and projects that are grappling with the most difficult questions that confront us. We are endeavoring to report the things that offer us a glimpse of another world - phenomena that have broken free of the cliché of existing systems and found a better way.

CThings is not left or right. It is forward. Its loyalty is to transcendent ideas.

We welcome your participation and input as we embark on this endeavor to report on the world that is emerging, at the hands of its own people, across all walks and all aspects of life.