[Paleopsych] Howard Bloom invites you etc.

Sat Nov 12 18:43:54 UTC 2005

Frank, I differ with your view of this. I teach a class for the 
university MBA program, and in my humble (ha!) opinion, my MBA students 
do need this. What I think Howard is going to offer is a key tool. A 
public seminar is one way of sharing that tool with people who might not 
otherwise learn about it.

Howard's unique view is capitalism as entertainment, and (down one 
level) entertainment as being secular salvation, lifting people from 
their ordinary lives. Thus, the successful capitalist increases the 
total amount of happiness in the world.

When I saw the movie, New York Doll, I learned that Arthur "Killer" Kane 
(bass player for New York Dolls) had a very similar concept about the 
purpose of his music; last night ABC had a piece on happiness and a 
successful businessman was telling his class that complaints are gold, 
they are what you use to improve your customer's lives. It is a 
significant reframe away from the P/L statements that dominate and 
stultify business.

Lynn

Premise Checker wrote:

> Howard,
>
> Stop trying to save the world! Lots and lots of people have been 
> beating a drum for capitalism and free trade, and it's richly unclear 
> what new ideas you are going to add to the stew. Can you just tell us 
> what is different about your approach?
>
> Instead of trying to save a world that will largely ignore you, you 
> should confine your efforts to giving us new tools to think with. We, 
> or some of us, will use these tools to save the world.
>
> Go back to tool making, please, Howard! We need tool makers far, far 
> more than we need world saviors!
>
> Frank
> -----------
> America and the Western world are in trouble.  Militant Islam says 
> that our civilization is obsolete and is about to crumble to dust. The 
> Chinese are working to make our obsolescence complete.
>
> But American and Western Civilization are not reaching our end.  We 
> are standing at the beginning of a future of passion and artistry, a 
> future lifted by technologies beyond our dreams.  But we are only 
> standing at the start of this path of wonders if we MAKE IT THAT WAY.
>
> During the last four years, I've stepped aside from science to write a 
> book called Reinventing Capitalism: Putting Soul In the Machine: A 
> Quick Revision of the Rise and Future of Western Civilization.  The 
> book is a total reperception of why you wake up every day, of why you 
> go to work, of what you and I do to save, uplift, console, empower, 
> and delight others, and of what you and I can do to express the you 
> that has always wanted to be freed but has never felt the time was 
> right.  Reinventing Capitalism is a reperception of the civilization 
> you and I have inherited, the civilization you and I now must remake.
>
> While I was giving a presentation on quantum physics at an 
> International Conference on Quantum Informatics in Moscow (I kid you 
> not), a strange thing happened to Reinventing Capitalism and to the 27 
> key principles it espouses-principles that show you and me how to be 
> artists in our daily work and why we need to unleash our passions from 
> nine to five.  The still-unfinished book was made a key component of 
> an MBA program at The Graduate Institute in Milford, Connecticut.
>
> And the founder of the Global Entertainment and Media Summits saw 
> Reinventing Capitalism as a tool with which to change the way we see 
> our world.and with which we can radically reshape our future.  Steve 
> Zuckerman, the founder of the Summits, has put together a two-day 
> meeting of some of the brightest business and entertainment minds in 
> North America to present and discuss the quick-and-easy but 
> tap-root-deep ideas about Reinventing Capitalism's Putting Soul In the 
> Machine.in the machine of your company and mine, in the machine of 
> your office, your industry, your culture, your personal life, and of 
> your species---in the machine of the human race.
>
> No, this is not EST.  It's history, science, and the knowledge of the 
> invisible heart of business that you helped me acquire in 20 years 
> working with Sony, NBC-TV, New Line Cinema, Amnesty International, 
> Farm Aid, CBS, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, EMI, ABC, Gulf and 
> Western, MCA/Universal, Manesmann, Polygram, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, 
> Disney, academic institutions, and extraordinarily bright individuals 
> like you.  It's the gut-sense you helped me evolve when we worked 
> together to generate $28 billion dollars in revenue for our 
> clients-more than the gross domestic product of Luxembourg and Qatar. 
> And when we worked together to put Amnesty International and Farm Aid 
> on the map.
>
> You know as well as I do that when we brought in our greatest revenue 
> streams and made our greatest cultural contributions, we didn't do it 
> out of greed or cold calculation.  We did it out of bone-deep belief.
>
> That knowledge-in-your-bones is the essence of what we'll discuss for 
> two days, December 2nd and December 3rd at 69 West Fourteenth Street.
>
> I very much want you there.  The cost is trivial--$129.  And I'm 
> asking you to pay your own transportation and hotel costs.  But I want 
> to see you.  It's been a long time.  And I want your mind to 
> contribute to one of the strangest revolutions you will ever be a part 
> of.
>
> When someone from Steve Zuckerman's team or mine calls you to give you 
> details, please say yes.
>
> With warmth and gusto-Howard Bloom
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