[GJM] About your messages to The Simple Society Alliance for Human Empowerment

[wesburt at juno.com]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:57:07 -0400 John Watkins <johnw at simsoc.org>
writes:

> Dear Wes, 
> 
> A few weeks ago, as you are aware, I sent out 
> the wrong message about the need for advisors 
> and a number of people responded with some 
> interest, including you.
> 
> I've been holding back on responding to you 
> because one of the necessities of advice is 
> that it be understandable and, for whatever 
> reason, I have been unable to understand 
> most of what you've posted to our forums. 
> The most recent message to the fund-raising 
> forum adds to that feeling. 
> 
> I particularly have difficulty understanding 
> how your figures illustrate the points you are 
> trying to make. I at least have come to know 
> what TOP and TWP stand for The Optimum 
> Policy and The Wrong Policy.
> 
> Maybe, among a more rigorously educated 
> group of economists, it all makes sense. I'm 
> not one of them. It pains me to have to say so. 
> I have sensed that you are frustrated with the 
> inability of others to understand your message. 
> Maybe my finding the courage to say this will 
> prove of some value to you. I hope so.
> -- 
> simplicity ~ personal responsibility
> compassion ~ community ~ justice
> empowering society by reducing complexity
> 
> John Watkins  Founder and Creative Director 
> The Simple Society Alliance for Human Empowerment   
> 379 Amherst Street #234, Nashua, NH 03063 http://simsoc.org 
> 
~~~~~ End John's note about my messages ~~~~~

Dear John Watkins,

I have no reason whatsoever to doubt the 
sincerity of your concern for my well being.  
Since you have not terminated my membership 
in your alliance list, as several other lists have 
done, I feel obliged to continue this conversation 
until one or the other of us discloses our common 
cause, or calls enough.

Beginning at the top of your note: I am unaware 
of your "wrong message about the need for 
advisors."  For reasons as yet unknown to me, 
Bill Ellis recommended me for a place on your 
list and you sent me an invitation I could not 
refuse which concluded as follows:

"And, you'll be joining us in . . . 
Creating a simpler, more humane society that 
actually solves its problems, treats everyone 
fairly, and helps everyone achieve their full 
potential."" 
 
John Watkins Founder and Creative Director 
The Simple Society Alliance for Human 
Empowerment 
379 Amherst Street #234   Nashua, NH 03063 
603-889-0111 
johnw at simsoc.org http://simsoc.org
~~~~~ End invitation to join the alliance ~~~~~ 

Now as to your understanding of what I write 
and the visual-aids I use to illustrate the topic.
I am not proposing a new solution to existing 
societal questions and disorders; as John Bunzl, 
Stephen Zarlenga, Robert Searle, John Gelles, 
John Watkins, and others are trying to do.  The 
Optimum Policy (TOP) was impressed upon my 
mind by the standard operating practice (SOP) 
of the General Electric Company and its primary 
customer, the electric power industry.  I have 
added nothing to the private sector SOP; except 
to recognize that our public sector SOP SUCKS, 
is only about 50% of the private sector SOP, and 
devise a few graphs and charts to explain the 
difference between the two.

If you have not been exposed to the private 
sector SOP in your "on job training" (OJT), it 
would appear completely foreign because 
research on the topic is not funded.  And it has 
not been taught in our schools and universities 
since members of Richard T. Ely's New School 
of Economics were accused of promoting 
Socialism in the 1890s and crushed by the 
"sound" business men of John D. Rockefeller's day.
See "Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State," 
A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901,
Sidney Fine, 1956.

In his paper, "Relation Of The State To Industrial 
Action," Henry Carter Adams, anticipated in 1887 
most of the social and political pathologies of 
the next two centuries, including the rise to 
power in our corporations and our governments 
of a class of lying, deceiving, carper bagging, 
Shylocks who sincerely believe that the rest 
of humanity is their natural prey.  As William 
Shakespeare taught us in the Merchant of 
Venice, the common people's only defense 
against these few true believers is the law; the 
whole Law, properly interpreted and enforced.
Other wise, we live on our knees; praying, 
paying, and obeying.

Western Civilization has been without the law 
for a long time.  Jesus Christ promised to restore 
the law, but his ministry was cut short. The US 
founding fathers restored enough of the law to 
assure the prosperity of an agrarian republic, 
and raise a majority of it's people out of the 
poverty that prevailed in every other nation.  

But with the onset of industrialization, after 
the US Civil War, the systemic defect of 
omission in the Law (US Constitution and others) fulfilled each of Henry
C. Adams' predictions 
for the United States.  After World War II, the 
whole law for industrial nations was restored 
in Germany and Germany, to effect their 
"economic miracles," by members of the US 
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  The whole 
law was not lost in B.C. 975 by the folly of King 
Rehoboam.  It has just been applied selectively 
by a class of lying, deceiving, carper bagging, 
Shylocks who sincerely believe that the rest 
of humanity is their natural prey.  So my favorite 
topic is, to say the least, politically incorrect, 
and may not be appropriate for your list.

Now John, I am curious to see if this message 
is distributed by your list, so I'll save the rest 
of the argument for the next round, if there is 
a next round.

As for [Easier-Fundraising], any correction to 
the social order that moderates the present 
excessive competitive tension in the US 
economy's game of musical chairs, by adding 
more chairs, should make fundraising easier, 
and so be on topic for this forum.  

Kind regards,

Wes Burt
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                 TOP and TWP are cognoscible on
                Dr. W. Curtiss Priest's web site at:
       <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>
             Where do you stand on the continuum 
        between TOP and TWP (The Wrong Policy)?
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