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Howard, I heard your OBL/ Michael Jackson piece with Art Bell last
night. Our local station replays Art Bell segments on Saturday night,
and as I was running late evening errands I caught you. Delightful
interview. Even the scary Agosto 90 stuff.<br>
<br>
OBL has one thing that Michael & others in the entertainment
industry lack, something you can supply, and that is MEANING. MJ
supplies temporary meaning through creative showmanship. People need a
greater meaning than that. They need something that calls to them to be
more than entertained, it calls to them to be transformative to others.
They need to feel themselves to have personal power. They need to see
themselves make a difference in the lives of others. They need to hear
the thanks of others.<br>
<br>
You have a vision of capitalism combined with liberal democracy (Dinesh
Souza?), and how that redeems people. Government must be minimally
intrusive so as to promote initiative and risk taking; people help each
other most via direct action in business. Low cost quality goods are a
form of happiness. As Eastbrook points out, though, our society is
filled with emphasis on problems, not on the incredible solutions we
have created. Thus, Ireland a bit over 1/4 of our living standard, but
is actually happier (David Myers, <i>The Pursuit of Happiness</i>, p
35.). Myers and others find that happiness is found not by consumption
but by service and meaning. Optimism, according to a recent email I
received from the Seligman group (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.authentichappiness.com">www.authentichappiness.com</a>) is one of
the keys to enduring happiness. Yet our whole system, politics and
commerce, is too tied into Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. We must turn out
society toward optimism, hope, service, and meaning.<br>
<br>
You can help reawaken a national spirit of optimism and joy, and your
Reinventing Capitalism book. I am sure it can be a powerful and
transformative tool. Let's get it published, Howard!<br>
With warmest wishes,<br>
Lynn Johnson<br>
Salt Lake City<br>
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<div>In a message dated 8/28/2004 11:53:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
BMC273 writes:</div>
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size="2">Mike Levine had a great show on Suitcase Nuclear bombs last
Monday, did you catch it? I think he said OBL had purchased 40 of these
from Russia.</font></blockquote>
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<div>hb: aha. so you missed my art bell show appearance saturday
night discussing islam's nuclear threats for three hours. i'd have
liked your opinion of it.</div>
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As for the issue about who suffers more...men or women, my friend had a
good point - she said its true we all suffer as humans but dont the
POOR suffer more than the RICH? So there are differences...(I still
think she is right that women do suffer more then men in general). What
do you think?</font></blockquote>
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<div>hb: in his Progress Paradox, Glenn Eastbrook sums up the
literature on happiness and comes to the conclusion that no matter how
rich you get, you still manage to fill some internally driven quota of
discontent and misery. I believe that Timothy Wilson in his book on
the adaptive subconscious also shows a lot of evidence that we have an
internal set-point for misery that manufactures miseries when we're in
clover and manufactures blessings when we are truly laid low.</div>
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<div>You dream of winning the lottery and are miserable because you
are not wealthy as a prince. Then you win the lottery and are
miserable because you have no more goals to pursue and your former
friends no longer come to you to chat or watch the ball game on tv.
All they want from you is money. </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">You
come down with a dire disease.<span style=""> </span>You fight it
like hell.<span style=""> </span>You feel it strengthens you and
gives you new insight.<span style=""> </span>And things that others
take for granted become delights to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">This
isn’t poetry, it’s the result of research.<span style=""> </span>The
happiest people tend to be the disabled and the chronically ill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font
face="Arial" size="3">In technical terms, we have a homeostatic
mechanism that makes sure that we each have our tiny share of joys and
our far larger parcel of griefs.</font></span></div>
<div>Howard</div>
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Howard Bloom<br>
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the
Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The
Big Bang to the 21st Century<br>
Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University;
Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bigbangtango.net">www.bigbangtango.net</a><br>
Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member:
Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project;
founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of
Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American
Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and
Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory
board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book
series.<br>
For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.paleopsych.org">www.paleopsych.org</a><br>
for two chapters from <br>
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of
History, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net/lucifer">www.howardbloom.net/lucifer</a><br>
For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the
Big Bang to the 21st Century, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
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