--- In [email protected], "Bob Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 4/27/05 7:28 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >> My friend Charlie Gleuck (Dr. Gleuck's son) went to the Hartford > > > concert. He > > >> said it was agonizing. Maharishi opened for the Beach Boys and > the > > > kids > > >> hissed and booed and talked to one another while Maharishi tried > to > > > lecture. > > > > > > ******** > > > > > > > > Typical knuckleheaded play by TM mgmt -- let's give a TM lecture > at a > > > rock concert, making kids wait for their tunes! And, from these > same > > > marketing geniuses, the mall store coming to your location soon! > (or > > > later, maybe, which is what "soon" means in movement-speak). > > > > > > Uh, Bob. Same old discussion we always have. The knucklehead you're > > referring to is Maharishi. His idea to do the tour. I'm sure he > would have > > preferred to open for the Beatles, but the Beach Boys had to do. > > ******* > > If you don't remind rehashing this, providing proper guidance for MMY > is the job of TM management, not letting a goofy guy like Mike Love > put him in a ridiculous situation which anybody in this culture with > any sense (and this does include most rock musicians, whether they TM > or not) would know could not work. As far as MMY initiating this > idea, you can make that claim, but it's just nonsense -- this was > Mike Love's idea, and no TM managers stepped forward to kill this > doomed notion. > > MMY does let people tell him what to do if they are forceful -- an > example of this being MMY at the Honolulu airport in 1959, when his > driver grabbed his carpetbag out of his hand and took him home when > MMY admitted he had made no arrangements for his trip to San > Francisco: > > http://geocities.com/bbrigante/letter.html#HNL > > I know Mike Love has been a long-time ru -- his room was down the > hall from mine at the Humboldt TTC in August 1970 -- but before he > attended Humboldt, he ended up in a psych ward for a while after he > spaced out from a marathon meditation session (a scene depicted in > the 2000 ABC movie about the Beach Boys > http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=31330 ), and Mike Love and > TM mgmt enthusiasm is no substitute for good judgement, and the bad > judgement of letting MMY on that stage at a rock concert pretty much > typifies the malfeasance of TM mgmt which continues to this day, and > MMY can't be blamed for that. He's a Hindu monk who does not know how > to operate in Western culture, and he said so when left India: > > http://geocities.com/bbrigante/comp.html#30 > > TM managers are goofy, because the TM community is goofy, and so they > need to do reality checks with responsible and creative people > outside the movement who like to solve problems -- these people are > called consultants, and there many fine firms that do this type of > work -- one of the most prominent is Booz Allen Hamilton > http://www.boozallen.com/ , and if the TMO were to sit down with > these consultants, they could come up a business plan that works, and > not a fantasy based on the enthusiasm of eccentric people.
Bob-zoid, A point that I don't recall ever having been made in rebuttal to your worldview is that you keep coming back to the present tense you use when mentioning that Maharishi's a monk, unfamiliar with the ways of the world and the West. Obviously that was true fifty years ago, but don't you think that he's had plenty of time to learn the basics of how ordinary Western people think and behave? How long can a man remain utterly naive and innocent about the ways of the world? After all, he's extremely intelligent and about the quickest study around. He's been on how many world tours, after all? As a famous old man, and a leader of a worldwide organization, he's met and talked with more people than everyone on FFL combined. As for Booz Allen Hamilton, many people, including David Kaplan, have tried to convince Maharishi to hire this or that American consulting firm, particularly w/r/t branding and marketing. Maharishi rejects the preliminary plans each time. I heard from a Purusha many years back about a tirade he went into when talking about conducting the Movement according to accepted business principles, saying that the world is based on such principles and look at what a mess it is. He is convinced that "Maharishi Master Management," whatever specifically that means to him, is superior knowledge to anything these firms have say. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
