Good question Harry, considering I used them as a metaphor for your judgments about us.
Bedbugs are family oriented bugs that move into places occupied by others because they don't have the technology to do it themselves. Your comment and rational for your post was based on waste space. ala John Locke. So is the strategy and design of the bedbug. Some things are the same but some are not. Like a New York City apartment, the Turtle Island reality prior to 1492 was that the space here was very carefully developed. However most NYCity apartments on the upper west side of NYCity are from the 1920s, not from thousands of years of pious effort based in intricate theories of land use [Indian religion] that balanced the environment with human use. (Cities exist all over the Americas where the populations were lost but they still continue to function environmentally. The most spectacular examples is in Columbia [Kogi] but the water and sewage systems still function at Machu Picchu and the environmental planning degraded and succumbed to the forest only because it was never finished. Recent cleaning of the site has revealed examples of remarkably advanced urban systems planning. [History Channel] The cloud city in Columbia WAS finished and is still functioning and has been recorded in a wonderful program on the BBC. We have it in our library here.) The cities of the Mayans were more European in their use of resources and so they ran out of resources rather than being balanced. Rather than sculpting they used cement to build their cities and that was more expedient and less durable than the South American sculpting techniques with stone. Tenochtitlan, in the middle of a lake, was balanced and was only upset [and the farming ruined] by the wheel and the horse which destroyed the shallow soil. That happened all over Mexico as Spanish farming, ill suited to the soil of Mexico, was introduced as superior. [see Francis Jennings, "Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest"] It is a common statement of environmental historians that the European immigrants could only move in because the natives had already tamed and developed the forest. Same for the fecundity of the plains which diminished, according the Canadian government, by 70% within one hundred years of the immigrants settling the plains. It took ten thousand years of careful design in the religions of the native peoples to build and much was lost within 100 years, according the Canadian government. At the time of immigration, the Europeans lacked the technology [and still do in their forestry methods] to do much sustainable balancing other than cutting the trees and killing the wildlife. "Laissez Faire" is the opposite of the civil (city) method of forestry practiced by Europeans who could not sustain forests and so their only choice was to leave it the alone. Adam Smith essentially transferred that forestry method to the capital market. As Historian Francis Jennings pointed out, "America was not a virgin but a widow." All the work was done but they destroyed the sustainer of the fertility of the plains when they killed the buffalo and put the gardeners on reservations then claimed the land was "wasteland" ala John Locke. (You know Harry, no one appreciates tradition or the teacher. You could learn a lot about where your ideas came from if you know the history of the teachers that led up to them. We have the same issue in music where they never list the teachers of the composers. You have to dig if you really want to understand how something happened. Who was Galileo's Teacher? What was the context that shaped the great beginnings of science? What was the Camerata de' Bardi? Who was Vencenzo Galilei? On the Science Channel that say he was a "lute" player (which he was) but that's akin to saying "those who can't do, teach." Sort sticking the sword in Cicero's throat all over again. Or consider zero. Zero was here amongst the Indian mathematicians and astronomers for maybe thousands of years but Europe only discovered zero when they kicked the Muslims out of Spain and translated their texts and changed from the Roman numerals to the current system including Islamic systems developed by Al Jabbar.) So bedbugs don't know the history where they move in. They don't speak the language and they suck the energy out of the people who are already there. They basically are sustained by living off of life. They don't eat meat or plants, they suck blood, lay eggs and prefer their towns in wood and metal. So they can be found on buses and trains that have wood and metal handles where they journey to new territory and look for a place where they can immigrate and set up business. Harry, do you remember when California offered a bounty on the head or scalp of Indian Men, Women and Children and in 1850 paid out over a million dollars in bounties? That was after Sutter's mill. (It's a wonder that any of the "gardeners" survived the "market".) Do you also remember that your newspaper in the state capital (The Sacramento Bee)was founded by a diasporaed Cherokee editor, John Rollin Ridge, of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper which the federal government had banned? Let's imagine for a moment: Go forward after the end of humans and the rise of bedbug metropolises and think of what they would forget and what they would make up for justification of what they have. Sound familiar? It should speak volumes that a European, kicked off this list, could take you (a lucid California American teacher), to task so easily on what you had said about our people and your principles and history. How much more could I do with your story, with my heritage and fifty years of work life experience and a serious library? AND I once got rid of bedbugs. They were brought in by nice, clean students who ride the subways and buses. We used dogs to track them down. It was expensive but it did the trick. Any questions? Ray Evans Harrell, In the service of full disclosure I send the list my standard bio considering the past week: Most of these materials are available either on the internet or your public library for corroboration. Letters of endorsement available on request if you have work available for money. I'm always up for a job if it pays my fee. REH BACKGROUND: Ray Evans Harrell (Artistic Director, conductor, director, master teacher and performer) has performed in, collaborated on and coached for projects that have received the Oscar, Tony, Obie, Grammy, Drama Critics, ASCAP, Golden Globe, Canadian Film Festival and Dramatist Guild Awards. Mr. Harrell has assisted with and performed on recordings on the Angel, London, Jive, Disneyland Records, Sony classics, Newport Classic, Opus One, Leonarda, Spectrum, Decca, Premier, MTM, Vox Cum Laud, Phillips KIC, DARP, and Jomba labels. He is also a soloist on the Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass film "Naqoyqatsi" and the recording of David Friedman's prize-winning Christmas Oratorio "King Island Christmas", produced by 12-time Grammy winner Thomas Z. Shepard. Mr. Harrell is a pioneer and producer in the development of American Chamber Opera companies and projects. He is the founder and artistic director of the Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc. of New York, America's first full-time, multi-cultural chamber opera ensemble and the Magic Circle Training Program. For over 30 years his innovative and creative concepts have widened the world of American Chamber Opera. In the 32 years of the "Magic Circle's" work in New York City he has conducted and developed Five "Magic Circle" Opera repertory performance ensembles, a Flamenco opera company, premiered five new, complete operas with notables like Kurt Vonnegut and numerous Magic Circle Opera recordings including "A Childhood Miracle," and "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters," by Ned Rorem on the Newport Classic label and Kurt Vonnegut's humanist requiem Stone, Time and Elements. The "Magic Circle" evolved out of Harrell's "Singers and Composer's Workshop" at Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Harrell has been a problem-solving consultant on major American performance projects. His expertise has been utilized to solve creative, economic and performance issues centering around cultural and gender stereotyping in projects such as: Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Carmen, and The Last Temptation of Christ as well as numerous Native American recordings and performances. A native Oklahoman and a Cherokee Indian, he lectured on Native American matters at the United Nations, Auburn and Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University Teacher's College Ph.D. program, Lucent Technologies, New York City's Museum of Natural History, various universities and colleges across the country, and arts and economics councils in Canada and on the Internet. In 2003-2004 Harrell produced the American Masters Arts Festival honoring composer Ned Rorem with ten concerts in New York City Venues. The culmination of the festival was a Symposium held in the Nation's Capital that examined the condition of the Arts in America and what needed to be accomplished to achieve a full employment of graduate performing art students. The Symposium was co-led with Dr. John N. Warfield, the "Father of Modern System's Science" and the developer of Interactive Management techniques. The conference was attended by virtuosos, academics, economists and futurists concerned with these issues. Mr. Harrell completed his Masters Degree in Voice from Manhattan School of Music. He taught at the University of Tulsa, Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University-Teacher's College and Mannes College of Music. His illustrious singers in classical, contemporary and popular music have performed in every major venue in New York City, across America as well as in Europe and the far East including La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric, San Francisco Opera, Houston Opera, Covent Garden; with the New York, Boston and Philadelphia Orchestras and in over 100 CDs and in "Hit" albums in the US and Europe and on stage and film with such directors as Pat Birch, Frank Corsaro, David Cronenberg, Robert Lewis, Jane Lind, Nathaniel Merrill, Andre Serban, Julie Taymor, Hal Prince and Bernardo Bertolucci. Mr. Harrell is of Cherokee descent and grew up in the Quapaw Nation, Oklahoma. He was trained in traditional Cherokee education by his parents, a Cherokee Elder and the Cherokee High Priest of the Overhill Cherokee Band and the Wolf Clan Chief. Upon the death of the High Priest, the Priesthood of the Nuyagi Keetoowah community in New York and the ceremonial grounds was passed to Mr. Harrell to fulfill as priest and teacher of the community. His vocal Masters are Dame Eva Turner 1958, Louis Cunningham 1959-1964, Todd Duncan 1964, Frederick Douglas Wilkerson 1965-1970, Daniel Ferro 1970 to the present. He is a certified Rubenfeld Synergist under Ilana Rubenfeld and trained in Dance and Kinetic Awareness with Elaine Summers. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians. He is featured in the International Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory 11th and 19th editions and the Who's Who in the Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian 7th, 8th, 9th ,10th and 11th editions . He is a retired member of the Screen Actors Guild, The American Guild of Musical Artists, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity. Mr. Harrell is a member of the Interactive Management Community and is included in their Who's Who. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America 2006-2007-2009-2010 and Who's Who in the World 2007. etc. Mr. Harrell has lived and worked in New York City since leaving the U.S. Army Chorus, where he sang and worked in national venues and the White House, until 1970. PS. I think everyone posting what they've done and been doing is a wonderful idea. Having coffee with Sandwichman in New York was wonderful because I could get beyond the general flabbiness of writing and put some context to things. The years that Mike and Fernande were in New York were a sheer joy and privilege and lots of good food. There are a lot of very interesting and accomplished people on this list. I think I will write a post about the problem of meaning in writing English, today or tomorrow. (If my wife lets me.:>)) Ray -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Pollard Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 3:59 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Lets get back to the future of work andaway frompushing and shoving What are the morals of a bedbug? Harry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 7:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Lets get back to the future of work andaway frompushing and shoving Harry quipped: > I think I would prefer to be a pig rather than a bedbug. REH didn't say that you are a bedbug, just that you have the morals of a bedbug. That's not an insult but a statement of fact. ;-) Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
