[P2P-F] Fwd: Film Made: Peace Economy

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Bob Reuschlein <bobreuschlein at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:29 PM
Subject: Film Made: Peace Economy
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*Film Made:  Peace Economy*

By Dr. Robert Reuschlein



*Overview*

The Peace Studies Professor’s idea of a movie about Dr. Reuschlein being
the next step was worth some thought.  Perhaps he did not know there
already is a movie about Dr. Reuschlein’s Peace Economics, made in 2010 by
Film Studies emeritus Jackson Tiffany of the University of Wisconsin
Madison.  This is a great film to help people break out of the two
dimensional thinking of 1) politics and 2) money about military spending
and begin thinking through the 3) third dimension of the economic
usefulness of military spending.  The 4th dimension would be the whole
empire concept and the 5th dimension would be the long term 54 year cycle.
In short term thinking America, the last two dimensions are a hard sell.
In fact, military spending does not create consumer products of any kind,
making it a black hole of lost manufacturing and construction in the
economy, leading to profound consequences other scholars have failed to
analyze in any depth at all.  This amazing new perspective is studied in
eight key dimensions explaining the rise and fall of empires.  This film
completely changes the way we should look at the economy since World War
II, especially the Great Recession and subsequent events.  This 40 minute
film is available from the realeconomy.com website for a $20 check,
postpaid, including all shipping and taxes.



*Beginnings*

Every Monday at noon peace activists in Madison Wisconsin meet at the
corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Doty Street.  This is a good
location one block away from the State Capitol and between the City and
County buildings.  One day I was downtown and decided to pass out some of
my own flyers and ended up in a conversation with a bearded grey haired
fellow with a hat that I had seen before at the Friends Meeting House.  He
had enjoyed one of my lectures a couple of years before on the “Twelve
Stages of Empire” at the downtown public library.  He had asked for a copy
of the tape of that lecture and I had not gotten around to giving him
that.  This time he had an offer for me.  He offered to make a ten minute
video about my ideas, something he had done for other organizations.  I
agreed saying it needs to be fifteen or twenty minutes to get the material
across well.  He agreed to that.  Little did I know I was going to be
working with a retired Film Studies Professor from the University of
Wisconsin.



*Tapings*

I called him later and agreed to come over to his house with eight of my
best charts to begin taping.  He started realizing the magnitude of the
issues of Peace Economics, and agreed to more and more inclusions.  He
nixed one of my charts that he thought would be too hard to explain, but
accepted the rest.  We soon realized it was going to take longer and ended
up with a forty minute dvd.  Since most of the material had been
accumulated over three decades, I agreed to a summary taping that would
explain the twenty-first century part of the story, as the taping was
completed in the summer of 2010.  Jackson then added titles and other
polish to the film.



*Distribution*

Jackson had a good idea who could produce the film economically.  I could
have a dvd in a packet with a dust cover for about 1000 for $1000.  That
made it very economical, but I wanted more.  I decided to double the cost
and include a 24 page booklet.  The booklet has all the seven charts of
material of the dvd on sixteen pages.  Another eight pages of important
ideas left out of the original film were added.  This gave a cliff notes
version of the ideas for easy review and to show others individual points.
The structure was such that a chart could be on the left hand side of the
fold and an explanation of the chart on the right hand side of the fold.
Had I consumer tested this more, I would not have started with World War
Two.  Even though I refute the idea that the war pulled us out of the
Depression, the conventional wisdom propaganda is too hard to overcome for
some.  I should have started with the next two charts instead, then eased
into WWII later on.  The 2011 dvd has never taken off like the paperback
Peace Economics of 1986.  Distribution of the dvd is only about 200 so far
compared to the 3000 of the paperback.  It is much easier to get a book
into a book store than a dvd.  But the newer work has much more new
material than the original.  It seems people want more words and less
numbers and charts.



*Actual copy of 24 page booklet enclosed with each video:*

https://www.academia.edu/4108656/BOOKLET_for_Peace_Economics_11_charts_24p._2011


Dr. Peace, Dr. Robert Reuschlein, Real Economy Institute, Madison, Wisconsin
CONTACT: bobreuschlein at gmail.com
INFO: www.realeconomy.com

MESSAGE: 608-230-6640


(*Real Economy* and/or *Peace Economics* free ebook for the press)
Archive of this two year long press release campaign at:
https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/film-made-peace-economy/



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