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Challenging

Revisado: 09-22-24

Timothy Snyder is an excellent writer. There were many pithy one-liners that will make excellent quotes. I'll have to get the Kindle edition for the second listening. This book should be taken very seriously. Will people beg off saying that this level of freedom is too difficult to attain? The oligarch future is not something people will want, but will they do anything? Actually, they will be forced to do something. The books of the New Message from God will help.

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Unalienable Rights set aside by The Federalists for the benefit of Commerce & Property Rights

Revisado: 07-04-24

This book was shocking in that Political Science 101 says that the Federalists saved the country from a poorly working Articles of Confederation. That is not the real story, as we learn in this book. it will take a lot of time and maybe some additional reading to get your mind around what is being said here. Debt runs the world. that is one way to control ownership of property. There is a way to make this right.

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Classless Society? Bad News lens reveals classes

Revisado: 08-21-22

I graduated from U. Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 with a mass communications BA. Film was my goal, but being in the Vietnam War era, I enlisted in the Navy to save my skin.

Visiting European cities and not needing a car, I became interested in City planning, so I got an Urban Affairs degree.

Learning from Batya the evolution of national journalism, which differed from the local reporters I dealt with, matched my experience. The emergence of elite media to serve the elites was an easily verifiable insight.

I think the planning profession has the same problem. Unaffordable housing for the past 20+ years is a consequence of 1950s zoning, which had been developed from the early 1900s on for segregation. Redlining was segregating too. Federal home financing excluded Blacks from Levittown-type developments into the 1960s.

Suburban development was far from workplaces, another consequence of zoning, requiring more cars and higher housing costs. This escalation began in the late 1970s when job offshoring began.

The woke college grads of suburbia are that market the digital media serve. No longer racially segregated, it is economic now. It is the same privilege of wokeness the liberal media cover.

The suburbs have outsized political power because they know how to make the system work for them.

That success is proof of merit makes me think of woke liberals as a Secular Puritanism. Like the original Puritans, worldy success was evidence of being among the chosen.

This book is important in explaining the disconnect between the political parties and the working people. Security is the primary purpose of community. That's the conclusion I came to from 35 years as a regional planner.

Batya's recommendations are essentially "community motive," a term used by Aldo Leopold in a 1944 essay. Though not published until the 1990s. It is what managed the profit motive throughout history, the behavior of elders and religions the primary teachers.

Secular elites are often disconnected from that. In this respect, they miss the built-in response option for coping with the depression that failures, small or large, that competitive society delivers.

For more insight listen to "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life" by Lisa Miller.

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Great Waves of Change - What kind of ark will you

Revisado: 06-19-22

Found Peter's work in 2019. Such future-oriented integrated global analysis is rare. It's not blue-sky optimism. In the future, there will be fewer.

Overshoot of resource depletion is recognized by some. He doesn't use that term, but many fundamental realities are explained.

Given the bleak reality for most of the world, what outcome might we work for?

My notion: It would be good if the global economy's descent were cooperatively managed to land Humanity on a new Plateau of Creative Sustainability before 2040.

I think this is the calling Peter makes at the end. With the forewarning here and in other books, like the M.V. Summers: "The Great Waves of Change," Humanity could choose to do better. It must.

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Understand Built-Environment Governance~Know Water

Revisado: 05-11-22

Listened twice. A significant amount of content to integrate with my understanding to date (1946 Boomer) to get a broader Whole Earth understanding, a goal since 1968.

The many mistakes in managing water resources revealed here are invisible as we look from our high level of assisted living.

As Humans expanded the assisted living built-environment in unsustainable ways, Nature was scarred. Water resources were damaged, and people suffered and died due to failures of intelligence.

The current sustainability challenge we face is a consequence of the 30 trillion metric tonne Technosphere.

Places in the natural environment where expansion could not be maintained, ancient settlements, are found by lidar today. Water engineering and governance are little-studied but critical, as we learn from Giulio in this book.

Listen, think, integrate and pass on this important perspective.

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Listen, then go to work

Revisado: 04-25-21

I thought teachers knew how to teach reading. I recall my son's sense of shame having to leave class to go to reading lab in grade school. I read to my kids, talked a lot. They had good speaking vocabularies. My daughter's problems were more difficult. I served on the school systems Special Education Advisory Committee, supported teachers, believed in IEPs, but as a single parent could only do so much. They went from Virginia to Rhode Island to live with their mother at ages 10 and 12. Was there progress? Not so much. My daughter finished high school in Texas. Counselors all the way, no particular improvement in reading skill, but verbal communication was fine. Did their children do better? Two dropouts. Now great grandkids. Maybe I can get to the parents. Truly bothered by what has passed for education in the USA. A Boomer, 1946 born, I had a reading mother and a great public school system in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Shallow thinking has become dominant? Over entertained and under educated. Take this message to heart and do what you can. Consider to finding a new message for these times. Maryanne is speaking with the wisdom of a prophet, warning inspired by The Creator, God, Allah, or whatever name you religion uses, or universal consciousness of science provides for this evolutionary experimental world. The greatest abuse is to not educate said a wise sage to me long ago. Without reading skill, language decoding, education has little foundation on which to build.

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Do Listen With an Open Mind and Heart

Revisado: 02-15-21

For the West, this message is challenging. For China and the East, including India, it is challenging. For all of Humanity on Earth, it is the primary existential problem to resolve. If conflict leads to war, sustainability in Nature will be impossible. While competition will be intense, that strengthens creativity, so all win. War is not creative. War is wasteful. Soon Earth will be faced with having to act as a unified Space Nation. Dissent within the framework can go on, but Humanity will have to come first. For that perspective read "Life in the Universe" by Marshall Vian Summers.

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This I will listen to this over and over

Revisado: 01-04-21

Always liked comedy & Seinfeld. Progress over his career is evident. Saw his interview with Jimmy Fallon where he explained he used the early material as it was, not doing anything to improve it. Our comic tastes have improved. The journey is worth understanding, as many of us are still trying to get laughs.

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Bad leadership, not a stab in the back!

Revisado: 12-12-20

A very honest book. War is wasteful. This helps understand why, though not book purpose I expect.

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A Must Listen to Understand the Cult Behavior

Revisado: 09-17-20

How does he do it? Power & wealth are attractive. Serving it is a rare privilege. If the source turns out to be shady, one should leave, like any relationship. When an emotional need for recognition by a powerful person is fulfilled, a lovely person whose affection your seek, or a career goal, many look past the negatives. It is romance, seduction and ego, a recipe for dysfunction. The supplicant thinks their love will change the rough parts. It doesn't happen and one is then stuck in the relationship. When cut loose, abandoned at great personal cost, new lovers of the power have taken your place, you review your life to try to figure out a good and loyal person like yourself ended up on the rocks.

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