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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Dear Howard,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thank you!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Your invitation with that of
Steve Zuckermann to VisionquestLive is highly appreciated. Thank you also
putting your book online, which is excellent as ever! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I cannot attend VisionquestLive due to
the exorbitant cost of travel within this continent, but, having read a good
portion of your book, I may be permitted to make a comment even one that, in
think-tank-circumstances, might be considered to be helpful to your goal. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Too bad you and I have not
discussed this earlier, however, better late than never!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The devil is in the details! </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I too have been singing a eulogy
to a uniquely North American way of using capitalism, namely by embedding into
commerce not private, but public ownership of a huge renewable resource,
wildlife, in order to generate – highly - successful ecological regeneration and
restoration while simultaneously creating massive wealth and employment. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The devil is in the details!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The greatest environmental
success story in the 20<SUP>th</SUP> century is the restoration of wildlife and
biodiversity to the North American continent. I beg you to prove me wrong on
this one!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">At the end of the 19<SUP>th</SUP>
century wildlife as a whole, not merely the hapless buffalo, were nearly
eradicated continent wide by a classical case of the “tragedy of the commons”.
>From this destruction rose, through private initiative, a system of wildlife
conservation which restored wildlife in the succeeding decades, but
simultaneously made it a source of great wealth creation, of incredibly
innovative, diverse industry, and of large scale public participation by all
classes of North American society. So successful is this system of grass-roots
conservation that parts of the environmental community is exploring how to apply
it globally. I am appending a paper in press I gave in
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region> on that
topic. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here capitalism thrives on
the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>sustainable use of a public
resource</U></B>. And that’s a miracle, because the lessons of this system have
been lost in exploiting ocean fisheries, or old growth forest, or agriculture
..etc. Had we applied the lessons of our successful system of wildlife
conservation to other renewable resources, if we were to mange other renewable
resources the way North Americans managed deer or wild geese, then captains of
industry applying current practices would be in jail!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Capitalism is a tool. It is a
powerful tool. It is like molten steel which, uncontained in a crucible and
carefully managed is sheer wreckage! And that’s the rub! What the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">North American Model of Wildlife
Conservation</I> shows is how, in a thoroughly capitalistic society, grassroots
democracy cutting across all classes of North Americans can be captured to
deliver an enormous public good, while generating private wealth and rich
employment! </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This model show HOW to twist
capitalism to deliver great public good. It shows how capitalism can be a
joyous, diverse, marvelously positive enterprise.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The devil is in the details!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Capitalism by itself is a tool,
more complex than an ax or a gun, far more complex and dynamic, but a tool just
the same. What counts in progress is how to use that tool. And that’s where the
wildlife conservation model North Americans evolved over a century is so
insightful. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And that’s what we need to
understand: by what hands-on means do we progress towards that which you address
in your thoughts as revitalizing capitalism.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Cheers, Val Geist</P>
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Capitalism: Putting Soul in the Machine at VisionquestLive December 3-4</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Good
Morning,<BR><BR>Howard Bloom and Steve Zuckerman have teamed up to
unveil and invite you to VisionquestLive for the weekend of
December 3rd and 4th in New York City. Based around Bloom's
book, "Reinventing Capitalism: Putting Soul in the Machine,"
VisionquestLive is a two day immersion in a highly powerful and productive
<BR>think tank featuring some of the brightest and most compassionate minds
from the world of entertainment, media, science and humanity. Just
imagine what <BR>happens when you actively participate in an environment
conducive to producing result---- and imagine if you could get
into their minds and allow their passion to inspire and empower you to
realize your full potential.<BR><BR>According to Howard Bloom, " We need
to find our heart and soul. Our reasons for working from 9 to 5. We need
to live our dreams---and making them happen <BR>no matter what. More
specifically we have to to move up a notch or two." To quote
Bloom's Reinventing Capitalism, "We have to use a capacity in our <BR>daily
work that only saints have previously been required to
possess,"--something Bloom calls "tuned empathy."<BR><BR>To paraphrase Bloom,
we will help you re-perceive what's under our noses every day, a set of
moral imperatives and of heroic demands that are <BR>implicit in the Western
Way of Life. We will help you see your magic, your gifts, and your
utopian capacities. Bloom shows how the Capitalism of <BR>Passion and the
upgrade it can generate in our daily lives and in the place we work each
day offers those of us who are emotionally starved a solid <BR>meal--the
exuberance of satisfying others, the exhilaration of feeling wanted, the
elation of creativity, and the knowledge that we've contributed <BR>to
something far, far bigger than ourselves. By reinventing capitalism and
injecting our own souls in the machine, you and I can raise the bar of
human possibility.<BR><BR>Let's do it together at
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
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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