[Springboard] Looking to Tuesday . . .

Paula Philbrook paula.philbrook at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 21:38:14 EDT 2008


I would appreciate a discussion group as well.  When I saw the Moyer's
interview I was quite impressed.  Paula



On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Ellen & David Rebstock
<grapevin2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I read it too and was compelled to use the Imbalanced Social Process
> Triangles to analyze it.  I would be interested in a discussion group.
> Ellen Rebstock
>
>   On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:40 AM, James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>     "Yet to imagine that installing a particular individual in the Oval
>> Office will produce decisive action on any of these fronts (terrorism and
>> nuclear weapons, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease) is to
>> succomb to the grandest delusion of all.  The quadrennial ritual of electing
>> (or reelecting) a president is not an exercise in promoting change,
>> regardless of what candidates may claim and ordinary voters believe.  The
>> real aim is to ensure continuity, to keep intact the institutions and
>> arrangements that define present-day Washington."  Andrew J. Bacevich, The
>> Limits of Power, p. 171.
>>
>> "If you think the City of Chicago is going to elect a new mayor every 4
>> years and he is going to come out here and do your work for you, you're
>> wrong.  If this community is going to be different it will be because of
>> you.  You're going to have to do it yourself"  Verdell Trice, paraphrased
>> from the Fifth City video.
>>
>> hmmm . . . .
>>
>> I just finished reading The Limits of Power.  Anyone interested in forming
>> a discussion group to study it?
>>
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Paula

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony.
   Mahatma Gandhi
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