And Good Morning to you dear earthnic reader/comspirer …
This morning I write through the blogoshere into the internet, and the indranet?
Noting that it is likely highly unlikely that I could deliver the missive below through conventional office protocols via Karstadt, the German retailing group, or Prisa, the Spanish media conglomerate that publishes El País and owns Le Monde…
In some confidence that a businessman of Mr. Berggruen’s stature, and our good luck, (see last paragraph, lol ) will comspire to place this otherwise “random” press reflection back through a press/media associate, into his hands, and thus his mind .. and thus, conscious internetception?
On the morning and day dedicated to the living memory of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. whose living example helped shape the conditions and the imperative for thence child Cawky, to continue to learn, conceive of, and implement worldOneradio today. Axé.
Add your good juju ! …. and otherwise do that gud vudu that udu …
and have a beautiful day in your neighborhood …
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Esteemed Mr. Berggruen, Good Morning, Good!
We read about you for the first time this am, and it is received with a bolt of intelligence and hands-on hope, which we will reinterpret as Heathy Omnidirectional Policy Evolution, for California, and in turn, as an evolving contributing model for the revitalization of U.S. ecologeconomy and All-Americans Spirit.
The attached article ( link below) was in my worldOneradio.org in box, sent by an internet journalist friend, a stimulating read, on this Martin Luther KIng Day 2011. On the premise that Mr. Tett’s treatment is mostly fair and / or accurate, I respectfully call for your kind attention, Sir.
The day is relevant as CA school teacher’s / schools have the day off-on. I Live and Work in California these most recent 20 years or so , partly as a full time public school teacher(Spanish), and renter, so with millions of others I am “on the horns” of the writhing economy. We are compelled to work for less, personally pay for school supplies, and work on unpaid days off. Good thing I ran with bulls (Cuidad Rodrigo, España, ‘77). I am writing from personal history as a New York native, third child of one immigrant and one farmer-parent, after traveling the world a bit (through studies and crewing Pan American), and a student of both public and private schooling. I immersed in Radio broadcasting (Honolulu, LA, SF), due to a life-long-love of music, and art in dialogue, and likely the fact that I can accomplish other tasks, while listening.
Yesterday, while we were listening to some latin-soul-music-for-inspiration (Mucho Axé) , my beloved wife Debra Sue and I were driving back from several hours of snowshoeing in the Sierras when for the second time that day, we weaved along the 580, through fog-bound Cerros crowned with immobile wind-turbines, wrapped in gray other-worldly fog or illumined by bursts of blue sky and tangerine sunshine. My precious wife expressed how much those turbines represented to her symbolically, decades ago, adding inspiration for her to move here (from NYC), as she felt that in California, an envisioneer future was particularly possible, and arriving. She has since become a practitioner of Integrative and Chinese Herbal Medicines, specializing in Oncology/Immune System. For my part, I imagined reinventing how to reapply the miracle of radio broadcast as an entertaining palette for kultimutural arts and as a dialogue tool, and invested the last 16 years producing, hosting and teaching same, along with the creation of worldOnefestival. We are daily working Californians, subject to all the same rules, facilitations and setbacks, as millions.
And we want to be part of the constellation of solutions that will set this gorgeous land and its hopeful peoples on a much higher ground in a connected web of social, cultural, educational, economic, and ecological policies .
I urgently see a role for regular inspiration and reinforcement of key intellectual and emotional “habits” to wrest California and the nation from its travails. It’s more than time for a “frequency shift”, in virtually all phases of daily work and conception, of what we really need-to-be-up-to in our collective and connected lives through education, workplace and recreation, while we live as regular folks, in progressively more extraordinary mediocrity! Thus, worldOneradio, now in its 16th year of daily volunteer San Francisco Bay Rim broadcast.
To wit, we oneder how we may constellate with your resonant interests and initiatives.
I culled these quotes from the article by Mr. Tett, these being representative of what caught my attention and compelled me to write for yours.
“California is in trouble – but I think California is ready.”
“But here [in the US] there is a very different attitude. The system is broken, people realise it’s very broken. In California they’re all unhappy.”
So what model does he want instead? Singapore? “I think it’s probably the best-run country in the world. It probably is on the authoritarian side and it needs to loosen up a little bit,” he observes. “But the ideal system is not necessarily the most exciting system. Probably, on average, boring is good for the average person.”
That medicine is presumably not intended for him, I observe; after all, he would not park in “boring” Singapore for long. “I am a hypocrite,” he admits. “But I am not thinking of me but what is good for most.”
He plans to continue with his investments but wants to put more effort into politics and philosophy; one model, he concedes, is George Soros, the financier and philanthropist. Since Berggruen does not have any children, he also plans to give his money away to his political think-tank and other reform causes. He is considering creating a media empire to provide an alternative to Rupert Murdoch’s, and promote civil society.
If Berggruen displays as much stubborn determination in pushing his ideas as he did with this bill, then maybe – just maybe – they might actually fly. In any case, I would like to dream so: right now, the western world certainly needs political magic.
A few random notes in closing this particular invitation to reach back. Singapore is fascinating. A baby orangutan pooped on my lap there once (at the zoo). Not at all unrecommendable, although I was likely just lucky.
The progressive, left-leaning press is savaging Jerry Brown, “making him” sound shrill. Very unpleasant, and more duality / contra-position/ hype in media-wash, alas.
Some years ago, during a longish and kind of leisurely stroll on an SF pier ( out a side- door at an event) I pressed a worldOne cassette tape in Jerry Brown’s hand, from which I surmise he selected his theme music for his his nascent, erstwhile radio show (Us 3).
I genuinely hope you are already smiling and reaching for your smart-phone, laptop, and staff, to learn more about what we have in mind and heart as people and producers of positive and uplifting work in our community, an overt comspiracy toward …
Heathy Omnidirectional Policy Evolution. Best always.
Corey Mason Director worldOneradio+festival = : ) ~
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Gillian Tett is the FT’s US managing editor. Respect and thanks, Mr. Tett.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4eca9d52-1f55-11e0-8c1c-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1BFvwGBJz
ViPS : From the worldOne Muse Room : Added this week with élan …
with permission from On The Media (via www.onthemedia.org ) and highly recommended to both players and parents, a four-part series ( @ 10 – 18 minutes each ) on the evolution and devolution, history and future of video games, and the great redemptive hope for same, articulated by energized video game envisioneers. In other muse… please do not delay to insperience:
Huun Huur Tuu / Ancestor’s Call, John McLaughlin / To The One, Kacey Johansing /Painted Diaries.
BTW .. we are indeed hearing from distant points, that our audio stream is being enjoyed by folks in far flung places … please do try and do tell via ..
www.worldoneradio.org ( archive) and www.jazzbeatradio.tv ( live 6-9 weeknights CST) .. we are retooling worldOne site in coming weeks and will make the player, and various reception points, more friendly and accessible. = : ) ~
