Simply wonderful. Better than TV. And expressed with enviable humour.
Natalia
Ray Harrell wrote:
I would like to state that we are taught that we are given a certain
number of marks on a stick, (days in our lives) and that we can
shorten the stick but can't lengthen it. We are also taught that
we chose to come here from the Mind of the Creator where is our
natural place. That the world is a classroom and that we don't come
here to know the infinite but the reverse. To understand the
lessons that are not possible otherwise. Some say "prove
God". I would just as soon prove that we are nothing more than a
running story in the mind of a greater being and that when He or she
is through with us he just closes the door. Row, Row, Row your
boat. Every druggie's great stroke of enlightenment "life is but
a dream." Don't you hate to be in such a cheap novel? Pound
the brains out of your Elder because you value their lessons so little
that it all comes down to a buck in the community. Even with the
Karma between us I couldn't have imagined a better judgment of the
banality of the current script than that.
You work not to eat but to grow. When you stop growing you eat to
sustain for something to be learned and to spiritually grow. To
argue over spirit is like arguing over the larynx that you can't
see. Everyone has THE story. Do you realize how much you
resemble a bunch of Italian voice teachers hawking their wears? :>))
Everyone believes themselves to be the ONLY God.
Live completely until you are finished then hope for a graceful exit
or be a Roman and just refuse to let anyone else have control of the
door out, other than yourself. But don't be a wimp.
That being said, you all have a lot more to do before you leave.
This Indian hasn't been civilized yet.
REH
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[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Arthur
Cordell
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:57 AM
*To:* 'Keith Hudson'; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'
*Subject:* Re: [Futurework] The perfusion of a theme
And of course all of us who are have retired have had to come to terms
with our changed position in the economic/social firmament. Coming to
terms and making the transition is a profound but essential challenge.
Arthur
*From:* [email protected]
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*Sent:* Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:58 AM
*To:* RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION
*Subject:* [Futurework] The perfusion of a theme
In a conversation with another member of FW I once made a forecast
that when Tony Blair had resigned as Prime Minister he would then be
so ashamed of his support for Bush's invasion of Iraq that we would
hear no more of him and that he would slide into oblivion.
I had the precedent of Sir Anthony Eden in mind. After attempting to
assassinate President Nasser of Egpyt (for nationalizing the Suez
Canal) in 1956, and then attempting to invade the country in a secret
collusion with France and Israel, he then had to withdraw after
pressure from America. A medical condition was invented for him and he
left the country for a while. He'd wanted to remain as Prime Minister
apparently but he was then manoeuvered out of office and he retired to
a house in the Wiltshire countryside. Although he wrote a highly
acclaimed memoir and was made Earl of Avon he hardly showed his face
again in public.
I was partly wrong in Tony Blair's case. After his resignation he went
on to make a fortune around the world from lectures, mainly in America
and, under the Old Pal's Act, was made some sort of */wunderkind/* for
the problems of the Middle East. However, even though he has a couple
of expensive houses, and made a brief semi-public excursion at a
friend's medical clinic during the recent General Election, he has
hardly shown his face at all in his own country in the last two years.
He is obviously too ashamed of the way he persuaded the House of
Commons and the public on the basis of a flimsy pretext that Saddam
Hussein could rain missiles on this country at 45 minutes' notice.
Essentially it was a lie and he's been found out (increasingly so as
the evidence mounts in the in the present Chilcot Enquiry).
Much the same applies -- this time in aces -- to Gordon Brown. Both as
Chancellor for ten years in the Labour Government and Prime Minister
for two he had been increasingly rumoured to be an office bully of the
very worst sort -- and fully revealed more recently in two books by
those who knew him well when in office. He bullied all around him and
even Tony Blair himself. After losing the recent General Election,
Brown left London and retired to his constituency home in Kirkaldly,
Scotland, from which he hasn't stirred since. Unlike Tony Blair, no
top jobs have been found for him, he's been on no lecture tours and
his previous closest sycophants have turned on him. Apparently, he
says he will resume his seat in the House of Commons when the Labour
Party selects its new leader but it's doubtful whether he'll ever do
so, or even show his face in London again. His shame and loss of
status is such that I wouldn't be surprised if he commits suicide.
This is not meant to be a piece of Schadenfreude at Gordon Brown's
expense. Rather, it is to reinforce a constant theme in my thinking
and writing -- the importance of status, particularly in the male.
Second to eating food, it is the strongest genetic predisposition the
male has. Without status a male can never acquire a partner or have
sex -- unless he pays spot-price for it or rapes someone.
All normally raised boys compete with one another for status long
before puberty while the rear cortex is developing and his sensory and
physical skills are being fully potentiated. During frontal cortex
development after puberty when much more subtle social and
intellectual skills are being refined in preparation for adulthood,
competition for rank order continues in all sorts of other ways, too.
Usually it is largely over by the age of about 30. Most young men
"know their place" or, perhaps are content with only modest
advancement within their social or work circle as they grow older.
However, given that modern society consists of many circles -- and
highly stratified ones, too -- then there is no limit to the energy of
the highly ambitious as they seek higher and higher levels of wealth
and/or power.
Sooner or later, even the most able and the most ambitious reach the
limits of their social standing. They will either be checked by fate
-- or "exogenous" circumstances as economists like to say -- or by
someone else (often a younger aspirant with more energy coming
upstream ). They will become depressed to a greater or lesser extent
by how deep their loss of status turns out to be, or how long it endures.
The male walrus dominates -- or even kills -- all other male walruses
in his vicinity as he acquires his harem of dewey-eyed females. Most
mammalian males have other methods of showing off their rank order to
females than by brute strength -- by their energy, their voice, their
wiliness, their body coloration, by their imaginative displays, or
whatever. Humans do so even more subtley -- by their clothing and
speaking voice (to show their social class), by their income, by their
profession, by their possessions, by their characteristics of
dependabilty, etc. All these principally show his economic value to a
female who wants to be married and be looked after comfortably and
securely while they have children.
Once again -- second to food only -- status is the strongest driving
force of all, whether it's modest or excessive, whether in society or
in economics. Without the mechanism of male status, sex wouldn't occur
at all, nor the next generation ever appear. The sooner that
economists are taught the modern findings of evolutionary biology the
better. The sooner that economists realize that their subject is
actually perfused by one powerful theme and one theme only -- the
relative adjustments of status throughout the life of an individual,
or class, or firm, or culture or country.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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