Hello there!
My name is Troy Pheil,
I am an independent web designer.
I am also the registered owner of this
web domain:
Altroent.com.
What I do here is
build web pages.
My primary goal these last 10 years has been to provide access to useful resources educating one's self.
My hope has been promoting self-education will lead to sane, fair and sustainable stewardship of the planet.
I support a growing and global grassroots movement
known as
Occupy.
The occupy movement asserts,
"We Are The 99%
that will no longer tolerate
the greed and corruption of the 1%."
The vast majority of the Earth's current economic and political systems
function primarily to create artificial scarcity. By manipulating scarcity the 1% create immoral profit.
They increased their privilege and excused their criminality by corrupting government.
The 1% falsely believe they are hidden from view, shielded through an artifice of
large national and multi-national corporations, from their personal
responsibility for the sad worsening state of the
human and planetary condition.
Occupy seeks is to wrestle control of the Earth and of its bountiful resource from the
criminal control of the 1%. This must be done to assure wealth is utilized for the mutual benefit
and sustenance of all the earth's indigenous people.
Here and now, for the first time in human experience, due to the almost
miraculous two decade long unfolding
of The Internet
and other digital communication capabilities,
it is possible all the people of the earth
to interconnect and participate in a very sane, very practical and very important discussion:
What should we best be doing with our time and with our resources?
Further; for the time being at least, this discussion can not be controlled
by the temporary rulers and other oligarchs of power of this time.
I am a strong advocate for self-education. This advocacy is not a selfless act.
While none of us can know everything, each of us does know many things. Some of these things we know are unique to us
and to us alone. No other shares our life, our experience, our awareness and our perception. By increasing our
individual knowledge and sharing that knowledge within an activated community we become the mega-mind.
With that mind we can come to know the truth of what has been done to us, of what is being done to us and of what needs
to be done now in this world to assure good outcomes for all of us in the future.
I work to provide links to valuable resources for educating ones self.
At times
I may well share the results of the self education process within me.
This is after all a public discussion and this web site is a part of my public voice.
In the video on the right
Randy
Newman
sings a song about coming of age in America. He sings about coming to grips with the prevailing
ethos of western culture - materialism.
Randy observes:
' ... in any fair system they
would flourish and thrive. Yet, they eek out a living. They barely
survive.'
We 'the people' should have reaped more
from the multiple harvests of promise which were and are the industrial,
technological and digital revolutions.
In this day and in this time we can and must commit ourselves to the courses of action most likely to free mankind
from painful compulsions,
from limited choices and from inequalities of opportunity.
Together we can and must make suitable and plausible plans for action which seem most likely to assure future
peoples will have adequate resource to carry out their civic responsibilities while still providing
the leisure time and freedom necessary for
the enjoyment of good quality lives at home with family and friends.
It is to this goal and this task that I, this website and the movement I support are dedicated.
My primary building materials are
HTML for structure and
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
for presentation and style. I also have small portfolio of simple uncomplicated
javascripts I use for the occasional dynamic effect.
I build these web pages to support a growing and increasingly effective
global movement to
educate the people.
I registered altroent.com as my personal web domain in the spring of 2000 because I believed I had acquired
the web design skills during my previous five years of serendipitous self-discovery here on the internet the
necessary skills to make money
building web pages and the first thing I felt I needed was a home for my anticipated virtual empire.
Altro Enterprises
was the name of a previous small business partnership I had formed
in the 1980s when I still lived in St. Petersburg, FL.
My partners in that early venture were my cousin and a long loyal friend.
Our plans were to design, manufacture and market bio-friendly consumer products.
Nothing much ever came of that though.
In 1988 I quite unexpectedly found myself exiled from the family homestead in
St. Petersburg (see: Living in Exile ) to Cambridge Ohio.
I took the liberty of considering the name still available for my personal use.
.
The movement to educate the people
has no formal name or hierarchy. There doesn't seem to be an official
list of it's members/volunteers.
What I do here
- opinions I express, biases I show,
analysis or evaluation I
make - all of these are entirely my own.
I am an advocate.
