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I was born in Barcelona during a complex three sided war in the Generaladad de Catatonia involved the anarchist, the republicans, the communist, and the nationalist (Fascist). ( See Orwell's Homage to Catatonia). I am the only native born America anarchist since the anarchist were the official government of a short lived independent Catatonia. My father, Irving Peter Pflaum, was the UPI reporter in Madrid during a three year battle, mother, Melanie Lowenthal, was with my older brother and her parents in Barcelona. In a month or so we took the last train from Spain to France and stayed in a small town near the border - Collioure that remains today a charming artist colony and fishing village.
Irv returned to Chicago to become the foreign editor of the Times (then the Sun-Times). I went to the University of Chicago in the last days of the Roberts Hutchin's program. I receive a form of a classical education, organized on Aristotle principles.
I found in archives a copy of a draft of the Synergy book -
The first e book that used links rather than footnotes.
It is written in HTML from word that was a MS program bought from a Dutch company. WYSIWYG what you see is what you get -
I was a part time futurist and did so much better than the engineers using Delphi models Really take a look - nothing
has changed except the links are almost all gone - the services gone - but the issues are the same and the answers
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I have been looking, on the web, for a year to find the best place to retire – where I can live reasonably (with a $2000 month pension) that is safe, civilized, and has basic services. There are places that are wonderful but expensive, such as the Seychelles; places that are very cheap but rough and can be unpleasant as in Central America, Nicaragua is cheap, so provides a useful alternative to the low income retired: Even those countries that are relatively peaceful often have poor infrastructure, like a lack of paved roads or regular supplies of electricity, and limited access to internet services, and medical care. In many cases, the cost of living is low because of high unemployment and an unproductive economy. Life can become a endless pursuit of the things that make modern life possible, plumbing, power, cooking, supplies: super stores, other tools to make life comfortable ATMs, and with a half competent staff, what a pain – not what you dreamed about. If you set up your own household, you need staff.. if in a hotel or rented villa you and the staff have to get along.
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But overall I don't think you can do better than in Bali - Hindu - good karma - but I am going to look in Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam to see for myself.
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Why you need a native guide - and a good one - honest - friendly - knows their way around - get you what you want not what they think you want and just like every tourist --- be careful, get references or recommendations, check the price don't be hustled by over active salesman
Visitors everywhere have a few basic questions: Who can I trust? Guidebooks? Internet? Hotel staff? Taxi drivers? Where do I go to eat? What do I eat? Where can I find the place that fits my taste and needs? What do I need to know about local culture on tipping? How do I read a menu in a foreign language?
There are consumer guidebooks and web services such as Angie's list based uideon user reports about services, plumbers to doctors. This is a virtuous cycle the good is separated from the not so. You learn from others mistakes and ratifications – restaurant and hotel reviews are found very helpful. When traveling a reliable, knowledgeable, truthful, friendly, English speaking guide will make all the difference between wonderful experiences and not so much.
We will license guides who are issued documents and a id with their picture and name pin with the official medallion. They pay a fee $10 and a percentage (10%) of actual fees they collect with with this surcharge. There will be a web page guide and advertising. This includes American Cities with arrangements made with major hotels. They get a service fee (10%) and call a certified guide drive tour director, as a concierge service.
This will take time and effort in getting direct participation and working with travel agents, hotels, general agents as Expats, all of whom have to be proven reliable and honest. There is risk that supply and demand will not match, that getting through the clutter of the inter-net’s noise to message ratio will be difficult. I am in Bali Indonesia and will work from here. We have a imperial structure 10% for local agents, hotels, etc. who run a chain of at least seven Native Guides, who pay 10% to the agents, so 25% in fees over the base cost of service but paying 125% for good service is a whole lot better that paying 100% for bad service. Also our guides do not over charge and live off kick backs from the restaurants, shops, where they take their clients.
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How will the future effect what you do now?
Planning for the decline of progress, big complex systems grow more slowly with age after they go over their limits; ecology of human society.
Three mega trends:
Shift of populations with urbanization of many unmanageable mega cities of the 20 million range
Game chancing technology, whole ways of earning a living decline in context of high underemployment, unemployment of masses of people – focus on youth
massive instability in less developed countries, underemployment of youth, loss of economic opportunity, crisis of populations, environment, and resources
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It's a big world out there – going to nine billion people which cause conflict
resources – materials and water – force higher prices among income limited people
environmental disasters, natural disasters from climate change
negative feedback – things getting worse causes violence, anti-democratic ideological fringe
groups – inter-group conflicts
The native Americas faced social collapses from the advantage of iron weapons by the invaders and germs from Europe, created the white Buffalo cults. The Seneca Effect: Why Decline Is Faster Than Growth and the breaking of the social, psychology, physical niche to allow people to earn a living. ^ Anthony F.C. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (New York: Vintage Books, 1969). ISBN 0-394-71699-X Seneca people From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So what is to be done?
How to be on the right ideological attitude to change and uncertainty, high risk environments.
Saving over consumption stored in basic commodities (not gold or silver but farm land, materials that will be required – survival materials but not the kook stuff)
Moving with the tide – one wave ahead – information industry – online working – shopping – learning – where the money is -
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SYNERGY (term coined by Ruth Benedict): A situation or society is set up so that when I am pursuing my own self-interest, I automatically benefit you (or everyone else), whether I intend to or not. And you do the same or me. Sharing vs. exploiting "Daron Acemoglu is co-author of the book “Why Nations Fail,” the simple thesis of which is that nations thrive when they develop “inclusive” political and economic institutions and fail when those institutions become “extractive” and concentrate power and opportunity in the hands of a few. Egypt, with its heavy state, notes Acemoglu, is a classic extractive society. What it needs most is a leader who can combine a spirit of inclusion with a brutal honesty to tell the people they have wasted so many years and really need to start over, by strengthening education, shrinking the state, stimulating entrepreneurship, empowering women and reforming the police and judiciary."
ponder that for now ; the next note will take off from here;
ponder that for now ; the next note will take off from here;
Political Anthropology
Social, economic = systems despite globalization there are distinct systems:
Democratic synergy yes competent Yes but greed and exploitation
greed and exploitative yes and not competent
competent share yes but NOT democratic
Democratic and competent Scandinavia Germany Holland Australia sort of India
Democratic and incompetent Greece – USA/? more or less India
autocratic and competent Singapore – China -
autocratic and incompetent – Zimbabwe -
no functional system Somalia Congo
Bali to Singapore:
Singapore is so 21st century if not 22nd Century. It has the biggest, tallest, largest, most numerous, newest, concentration of modern structural materialism imaginable, if fact it is unimaginable until you get here and see for yourself, its really real. The apartment blocks row on row, the malls that go on forever in many layers, the office building of striking design, an indoor air conditioned madena (a market in north Africa also called the casabah) for 650 stalls, Orchard street is the miracle mile upon mile, expensive hotels and malls and more hotels and malls.
Singapore grew up on this swampy island all at once in the last half of the 20th Century for the Chinese who did not want to be in Malaysia. It had been ruled by the British and became independent only in the 1960's. It clearly is run by competent technocrats. The way of attacking traffic jams is to build a first class road system, an efficient metro SMRT, lots of buses, time related road fees ( a plan then used by the city of London), but because it is not democratic, the government can charge 100% duties on cars, limit the number of 10 year permits to own a car, (prices are bid on the market and average 10,000 SD) and it works. Cigarettes are over 10SD, because they is no popular political opposition, limited press freedom, government control of TV (they can't control satellites) but the foreign media doesn’t cover local issues. Most of the population does not know English to read the Straits Times which is mostly business and careful. Its a club and membership is required. AND I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT WORKS..Lincoln Steffens said about the Soviet Union in the 1930's. Everything is up to date in Kansas City..
Everything a real city planner could wish for and was starting in a fairly empty space the city state went from almost nothing to 8 million in the last part of the 20th century and this part of the 21st it has a building boom, construction private and public drawing in a million guest workers. Now they are going to build a high speed train to Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur The state and big thinking developers are married.
Now Bali is a mess. Too many cars, too little road equals constant traffic jams with flocks of motor bikes moving in and out in what appears a very dangerous manner. It is better on the north and east coast, far away from Kuta. Places can look beautiful with layers of rice fields inside a tropic forest and no mess. While Singapore has thousands of neat stalls many offering food, Bali has messy road side Comados ? ( The Puerto Rican little store, bar, cook out, etc.) Like in central America, not regulated and a blot on the roads.
Singaporeans are clearly industrious people, Balinese are not – they are extraordinary patient in their traffic jams, there is no pushing or shoving, they are soft spoken, friendly, helpful if they can, and mostly honest. Now Singapore is no way as pushy as New York Paris or Rome and traffic is orderly. But in comparison with Bali they are in a hurry – not quite as rapid moving as I saw in China or Londoners who move faster that Spaniards - its an interesting measurement.
What I observe in this are shadows on the future of technology and technocrats and big developments that have a sterility, being not very human in scale and reflecting a race to earn and spend – the global brands are much in presence here – you know who they are – Gucci, Prada, south beach, the grove, Beverly hills, Michigan Avenue or Fifth avenue in spades etc. I don't know but everyone else does. And cell phones or personal devices are everywhere.
Florida has its share of road side tick tack and Daytona Beach shows no signs of intelligent planning. So I show my prejudice for Spanish small towns, rural Italy and France, quiet more human and quaint .. built like Sienna carefully over centuries and I look upon a future of more Singapore like alien creatures with concerns – issues raised by Louis Mumford 50 years ago with the answer being green-way, new planned communities as functional towns, as in Finland, Sweden, new towns out of London, but there is not enough space in Singapore.
It's OK to be rich, much better than poor, its good to be efficient, its better to have things work than have lots of breakdowns - BUT give me a break – can't cities be collections of neighborhoods like in London, most of New York – Chicago: Singapore has Chinatown and little India as tourist sites, neighborhoods are blocks with numbers such as building 28 of huge apartments houses like Soviet developments. Two thirds are state supported public housing which is then sold to the residences at near market prices, the state must make a killing. They look the same as private developments and are as well built. Socialism run rabid in a very capitalist state – like in China itself - Maybe there is something in the culture of China that produces this synergy of shared benefits between capitalist and socialist planning. Surely this is massive State Capitalism without massive secret police.
While Indonesia has state capitalism, military industrialism, it has not effected Bali except consumer goods (cars and motor bikes) and a few shopping centers in Kuta which is a Benedorm type tourist city – not native.
MUCH of the blogs and reviews of SE Asia are prejudiced by cultural bias. No it is not Cleveland but further west, so far west that it is the far east. After six months it will all seem normal. The disorder becomes a new kind of order, difference becomes the new normal. What is misunderstood becomes understandable. A little cultural anthropology in the field. Americans and Australians are more provincial than Europeans because they are all over the blasted continent. Not much difference between regions and cultures in the great melting pot – a pot that contains too many ingredients becomes a mush as too many colors become muddy brown lacking high points and sophistication.
You have a bunch of tourist who don't know much – as the British foreign service has long time residents, the Americans have tourist who just begin to understand when they are transferred, as are generals in command of the wars. Don't believe much of what you read from tourist.
1000 year old jokes:
The St. Thomas USVI joke. There was a West Indian who suddenly died. When she met St. Peter she was told that her record was incomplete so she would be given a chance to visit heaven and hell so she could decide for herself where to spend eternity. She went to heaven and it was a boring! Just a bunch of angles sitting around praising god and singing hymns, not up beat at all.
Then she visited hell and it was just like the West Indies, beach party with steel band, rum, sex, dirty dancing and rag gay. So she choose hell. BUT when she returned it was hell, fire and brimstone (whatever that is)
She complained to St. Peter who told her that the last time she was a tourist.
"The Nasruddin stories, known throughout the Middle East, constitute one of the strangest achievements in the history of metaphysics. Superficially, most of the Nasruddin stories may be used as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and caravanserais, in the homes and on the radio waves, of Asia. But it is inherent in the Nasruddin story that it may be understood at any of many depths. There is the joke, the moral- and the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way to realization." - The Sufis, Idries
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The story of the blind men and an elephant originated in the Indian subcontinent from where it has widely diffused. It has been used to illustrate a range of truths and fallacies. At various times it has provided insight into the relativism, opaqueness or inexpressible nature of truth, the behaviour of experts in fields where there is a deficit or inaccessibility of information, the need for communication, and respect for different perspectives.
Fred and Barney are having a few drinks in the neighborhood bar, and Fred decides it’s time to go home. He says good-night and stumbles out the door towards the parking lot.
Half an hour later, Barney also calls it quits and heads out the door. He’s surprised to find Fred still out there on the sidewalk, searching the ground under the streetlamp directly in front of the bar’s entrance.
“What are you doing?” Barney asks.
“I dropped my car keys! I’ve been looking and looking, but I can’t find them!” moans Fred.
Barney helps Fred scour every square inch of the ground in front of the bar, but the keys are definitely not there.
“Are you sure you dropped them here, Fred?”
“Here?” replies Fred. “Why, no. I’m pretty sure I dropped them back there.” Fred points towards the dark parking lot.
“Then why are we searching here, under the streetlamp!?!” exclaims Barney.
“Because here the light’s so much better!” Fred explains.
Don't believe much of what you read from tourist.
"I can see in the dark," boasted Hodja one day while sitting in a tea shop."
"If that's true," said his friends, "why do we sometimes see you carrying a light at night?"
"Well," he replied, "I only use that lamp to prevent other people from bumping into me."
***
One day a friend asked Hodja for a loan, saying that he would repay him the following week. Hodja didn't believe him but gave him the money anyway. Much to his surprise, the man kept his word and repaid him.
A few months later the same man wanted another loan from Hodja, and he said to him, "You know my credit is good. Last time, I repaid you promptly."
"You're not going to get the money this time,"said Hodja. "You deceived me last time by repaying me when I thought that you wouldn't. I am not going to let you fool me again."
***
Hodja wanted to learn how to play the lute. So he approached a music teacher and asked him, "How much do you charge for private lute lessons?"
"Three silver pieces for the first month; then after that, one silver piece a month."
"Oh, that's very fair, " exclaimed Hodja. "I'll start with the second month".
***
One day a poor hungry man was passing through the streets with only a piece of bread in his hand. As he passed by a restaurant, he saw some delicious-looking meatballs frying in a pan. He waved his bread over the pan for a few seconds, and then he ate it. The restaurant owner had seen what he did and grabbed him by the neck and dragged him before the judge, who happened to be Hodja.
The restaurant owner demanded that this poor peasant pay for the price of the meatballs.
Hodja listened carefully and then took two coins from his pocket and told him, "Come and stand by me a minute." The restaurant owner obeyed, and Hodja shook his fist so that the coins made a rattling sound in the man's ear.
"What are you doing this for?" he asked
Hodja replied, "I have just paid you for the meatballs. Surely the sound of money if fair payment for the smell of food."
***
One day a friend visited Hodja and said, "Hodja, I want to borrow your donkey."
"I'm sorry, " replied Hodja, "but, I've already lent it out to someone else."
As soon as he said this, the donkey brayed.
"But Hodja,I can hear the donkey! It's in the stable."
Shutting the door in this friend's face, Hodja told him with dignity, "A man who believes the word of a donkey above my own doesn't deserve to be lent anything!"
***
One day Hodja was heartbroken over the loss of his dear wife. All his neighbors and friends tried to encourage and comfort him by saying, "don't worry about her, Hodja we'll help you to find and even better one."
A short while later his donkey died as well. Hodja seemed to mourn the donkey even more than he had his wife.
Some of his friends noticed this and approached him concerning this matter, and he replied, "When my wife passed away, all my friends promised me that they would find an even better one for me, but so far no one has offered to replace my donkey."
***
For some reason the people of Aksehir became very angry with Hodja and wanted to expel him from the town. They complained to the magistrate so that he was forced to summon Hodja. He said to him, "Hodja, the people of this town don't like you. They all want you to move."
"It is I who don't like the people here," replied Hodja. "As far as I'm concerned, they can all leave."
"But they are many and you are one," said the magistrate.
"Well, because they are many it is even easier for them. They can all work together and build a village wherever they decide to go. But how can I, all alone and at my age, build a new home and cultivate a field in the country?"
MUCH of the blogs and reviews of SE Asia are prejudiced by western cultural bias. No it is not Boston but much further west, so far west that it is the far east. After six months it will all seem normal. The disorder becomes a new kind of order, difference becomes the new normal. What is misunderstood becomes understandable. A little cultural anthropology in the field.
Americans and Australians are more provincial than Europeans because they are all over the blasted continent. Not much difference between regions and cultures in the great melting pot – a pot that contains too many ingredients becomes a mush as too many colors become muddy brown; lacking high points and sophistication. Sidney becomes American, holiday inns, Hummy foods (KFC, subway,) Big Mac, whopper, fast food mass produced...and not really cheap.
You have a bunch of tourist who don't know much –not like the British foreign service which has long time residents, the Americans have tourist diplomats who just begin to understand what is going on, when they are transferred, as are generals in command of the wars. Even ATT did not want their people going native so moving left them with only the company as their society and their total commitment.
No wonder we don't know our way around Cuba, Syria, Iran, Mesopotamia, Vietnam, USS-was, etc.. Don't believe much of what you read from tourist. Journalist can be better but there a few real foreign corespondents left. Just helicoptered in faces on green screens. It's Friday so this must be Istanbul -
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