[Oe List ...] When the castle gates are open

[frank bremner]

Dear colleagues
 
In about 1975 the late David McLeskey gave the local ICA group a talk about the forthcoming LENS (Living Effectively in the New Society, later re-worked and re-named as Leadership Effectiveness and New Strategies) seminar in Adelaide.
 
One image has stick with me.  He referred to Michael Harrington, whose book The Other America, disclosed how much poverty there was in John F Kennedy's USA.  The Lyndon Johnson administration, which followed the JFL Camelot administration after JFK's assassination, invited Harrington to Washington to contribute ideas to LBJ's Great Society program.
 
Apparently Harrington had something of a breakdown.  But he went on to write other books, work in academia, work for the Democratic Party, and .... check him out on Google and Wikipedia.
 
McLeskey's story came to mind when I came across the attached article on AlterNet the other day.  I immediately thought "When you're knocking on the castle door, you'd better have a conversation in mind for when (and if) they let you in".
 
Cheers
 
Frank Bremner
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