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<DIV>I respect your opinion, as you know. I also value our
friendship.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm enclosing a copy of the draft of Reinventing Capitalism--which is NOT
about free market stuff.</DIV>
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<DIV>See if you think there are new tools of understanding in it. And let
me know what you think.</DIV>
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<DIV>Howard</DIV>
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<DIV>Frank, I differ with your view of this. I teach a class for the
<BR>university MBA program, and in my humble (ha!) opinion, my MBA students
<BR>do need this. What I think Howard is going to offer is a key tool. A
<BR>public seminar is one way of sharing that tool with people who might not
<BR>otherwise learn about it.<BR><BR>Howard's unique view is capitalism as
entertainment, and (down one <BR>level) entertainment as being secular
salvation, lifting people from <BR>their ordinary lives. Thus, the successful
capitalist increases the <BR>total amount of happiness in the world.<BR><BR>When
I saw the movie, New York Doll, I learned that Arthur "Killer" Kane <BR>(bass
player for New York Dolls) had a very similar concept about the <BR>purpose of
his music; last night ABC had a piece on happiness and a <BR>successful
businessman was telling his class that complaints are gold, <BR>they are what
you use to improve your customer's lives. It is a <BR>significant reframe away
from the P/L statements that dominate and <BR>stultify
business.<BR><BR>Lynn<BR><BR>Premise Checker wrote:<BR><BR>>
Howard,<BR>><BR>> Stop trying to save the world! Lots and lots of people
have been <BR>> beating a drum for capitalism and free trade, and it's richly
unclear <BR>> what new ideas you are going to add to the stew. Can you just
tell us <BR>> what is different about your approach?<BR>><BR>> Instead
of trying to save a world that will largely ignore you, you <BR>> should
confine your efforts to giving us new tools to think with. We, <BR>> or some
of us, will use these tools to save the world.<BR>><BR>> Go back to tool
making, please, Howard! We need tool makers far, far <BR>> more than we need
world saviors!<BR>><BR>> Frank<BR>> -----------<BR>> America and the
Western world are in trouble. Militant Islam says <BR>> that our
civilization is obsolete and is about to crumble to dust. The <BR>> Chinese
are working to make our obsolescence complete.<BR>><BR>> But American and
Western Civilization are not reaching our end. We <BR>> are standing at
the beginning of a future of passion and artistry, a <BR>> future lifted by
technologies beyond our dreams. But we are only <BR>> standing at the
start of this path of wonders if we MAKE IT THAT WAY.<BR>><BR>> During the
last four years, I've stepped aside from science to write a <BR>> book called
Reinventing Capitalism: Putting Soul In the Machine: A <BR>> Quick Revision
of the Rise and Future of Western Civilization. The <BR>> book is a
total reperception of why you wake up every day, of why you <BR>> go to work,
of what you and I do to save, uplift, console, empower, <BR>> and delight
others, and of what you and I can do to express the you <BR>> that has always
wanted to be freed but has never felt the time was <BR>> right.
Reinventing Capitalism is a reperception of the civilization <BR>> you and I
have inherited, the civilization you and I now must remake.<BR>><BR>>
While I was giving a presentation on quantum physics at an <BR>>
International Conference on Quantum Informatics in Moscow (I kid you <BR>>
not), a strange thing happened to Reinventing Capitalism and to the 27 <BR>>
key principles it espouses-principles that show you and me how to be <BR>>
artists in our daily work and why we need to unleash our passions from <BR>>
nine to five. The still-unfinished book was made a key component of
<BR>> an MBA program at The Graduate Institute in Milford,
Connecticut.<BR>><BR>> And the founder of the Global Entertainment and
Media Summits saw <BR>> Reinventing Capitalism as a tool with which to change
the way we see <BR>> our world.and with which we can radically reshape our
future. Steve <BR>> Zuckerman, the founder of the Summits, has put
together a two-day <BR>> meeting of some of the brightest business and
entertainment minds in <BR>> North America to present and discuss the
quick-and-easy but <BR>> tap-root-deep ideas about Reinventing Capitalism's
Putting Soul In the <BR>> Machine.in the machine of your company and mine, in
the machine of <BR>> your office, your industry, your culture, your personal
life, and of <BR>> your species---in the machine of the human
race.<BR>><BR>> No, this is not EST. It's history, science, and the
knowledge of the <BR>> invisible heart of business that you helped me acquire
in 20 years <BR>> working with Sony, NBC-TV, New Line Cinema, Amnesty
International, <BR>> Farm Aid, CBS, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, EMI,
ABC, Gulf and <BR>> Western, MCA/Universal, Manesmann, Polygram, Coca Cola,
Pepsi Cola, <BR>> Disney, academic institutions, and extraordinarily bright
individuals <BR>> like you. It's the gut-sense you helped me evolve
when we worked <BR>> together to generate $28 billion dollars in revenue for
our <BR>> clients-more than the gross domestic product of Luxembourg and
Qatar. <BR>> And when we worked together to put Amnesty International and
Farm Aid <BR>> on the map.<BR>><BR>> You know as well as I do that when
we brought in our greatest revenue <BR>> streams and made our greatest
cultural contributions, we didn't do it <BR>> out of greed or cold
calculation. We did it out of bone-deep belief.<BR>><BR>> That
knowledge-in-your-bones is the essence of what we'll discuss for <BR>> two
days, December 2nd and December 3rd at 69 West Fourteenth
Street.<BR>><BR>> I very much want you there. The cost is
trivial--$129. And I'm <BR>> asking you to pay your own transportation
and hotel costs. But I want <BR>> to see you. It's been a long
time. And I want your mind to <BR>> contribute to one of the strangest
revolutions you will ever be a part <BR>> of.<BR>><BR>> When someone
from Steve Zuckerman's team or mine calls you to give you <BR>> details,
please say yes.<BR>><BR>> With warmth and gusto-Howard Bloom<BR>>
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PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>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>Recent Visiting
Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty
Member, The Graduate
Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<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: Institute for Accelerating Change ; executive
editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International
Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from
<BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History,
see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The
Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see
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