Charlie Rose Has It All

Charlie Rose' program on Tuesday  was particularly interesting ...and satisfying.

Two books were on the table, each with collaboration of two authors.

First was  The Fourth Revolution  and  second... Think Like A Freak.

Half the program was allocated to each.  Authors of the first ,were Editor-in-Chief of the Economist, a British journal and its Managing editor.

The second  was a  journalist  of high repute and an eminent professor.

I don't remember names but they could  be googled

The first examined organized government from the  beginning of civilization. China having the first  civil service.

There have been three revolutions  already . We are in the midst of a fourth.

Governments world over have ground to a halt in chaos .

Twin problems  identified are Cronyism and Entitlement.

We know about that don't we in Aurora. We could have written the book . the perfect microcosm.

In my mind  the difference is .......at our level of government,  a candidate ,who commits to  seizing cronyism and entitlement  by the throat and giving  the pair a bone -rattling shake ...can  get elected.

I've been doing it for years.  Hoping it would catch on. Maybe now's the time.

The second book was a serious look at our conditioning.

Analogy of an art was  used.

A magician , holding a kerchief, stretches his arm up and instructs his audience to pay close attention. Adults do.

A child, on the other hand,   looks where he wants to and spots  the magician's sleight of  hand .

The Professor  offered another analogy, closer to home.  A person ,very much his  junior ,could offer an idea to a group and get zero reaction.  Ten minutes later, the professor offers precisely the same idea  and  genius is instantly proclaimed.

As a person without credentials, what  I  offer  is simple and common  sense. But the table perceives it to be  too simple and too common.  It can't be worth much .

It's my experience... as one without status...  and outside cronyism , whose ideas  must  be squashed .... whose rights must be trampled with lawyers and such....

if that's what it takes. .. and that's what it took .

But the jury's still out.... thrown  out in fact