Leo Strauss and the Chicago School of materialism that merely thinks survival. They gave up everything to escape Hitler and lost their sense of the value of things other than what they could use to escape persecution. They were smart and mean. I knew several of them, now dead. The virus has reached down even to my reservation and home state. Most of the wealthy folks I know have it and I would never call them indifferent. They come from every social strata, every ethnicity but mostly what the world calls "White." And every religion. They have PTSD, they're hurt, bitter but not all of them. Reagan was not hurt or bitter. Reagan was trained by the business world. Most of them, like Reagan, see it as a job, a way to become affluent or continue to keep up what they want. One man I coached with, in the 1970s, went to the business world and put out two tables. On one table was the college educated scholarly journals with the regular media. The other table was empty except for one magazine. He said: "This table is the liberal world. They represent the history of America and everything that would tax you and take your money." He pointed to the other table and said, these are the people who represent you!" The table was empty except for the National Review. "Let me represent you he said." At that moment they funded the "New Criterion." The Think Tanks, "Heritage Foundation", "Cato" "American Enterprise" " Manhattan Institute" etc. all grew out of such meetings as did the program to take Judges on junkets where they indoctrinated them into the Federalist Society. This is not indifference. It is a deliberate plan and they told me the plan as well as others as they were doing it. Why me? I socialized with them.
But what set me off from them was when they began to build the connection to the haters in the fundamentalist churches. The very worst and bigoted group that I walked away from and that have destroyed the connections to my family. One of my relatives who is very old and trapped in it says simply: "Well you have to play the hand you got!" And that's the way it is. Are we going to talk seriously from what we know and where we are from, or are we going to continue to play bad mitten? What about it. I'm old with nothing to lose. I'll talk. How about you? REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:36 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis The culprit? Indifference. The emergence of a "whatever" society. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:14 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis Creativity crisis? How about feral citizens and media that writes on a third to fifth grade level? Citizens that don't even know how to repeat a movement in their body much less understand the meaning of any patterns other than visual numbers. Did any of you notice the paragraphs in that Chinese writer's article that Gurstein posted? It reminded me of a stage work on paragraphs that Edgar Grana wrote where the entire work was built around the rules for paragraphs. Try finding a paragraph like that in the NYTimes or the NYReview of Books. Only in occasional scholarly works is there such writing. The average reader has ADD and can't think their way through correct paragraph writing. Often the NYTimes makes a sentence a paragraph. Hell so do I. :>)) And the Globe Mail and the London Times (although the Brits and the NYReview writes long articles, the paragraphs are still often just sentence thoughts) and the Economist and Scientific American, and..and...and. The LA Times is said to be a third grade level for grammar and it's intentional. It was this way long before there was a Creativity Crisis. Check out Richard Florida, he sometimes gets it right about the environment of creativity. Is there a creativity crisis before that caused these things or did capitalism create the environment by downgrading the mean until it created a feral readership. There used to be literature and the pulp media. Now literature and the pulp media are the same. The culprit? He's dead. So you can't ask him. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:50 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michel Bauwens Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:03 PM To: Peer-To-Peer Research List Cc: [email protected] Subject: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
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