<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Reuschlein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:57 PM<br>Subject: Control Freak Societies<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Link to send to others
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/control-freak-societies/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/control-freak-societies/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Control Freak Societies</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">by Dr. Bob Reuschlein</span><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">We see it everywhere.
Everyone is trying to control everyone else. Especially here in the United States of America. Where does it come from? Just as achievement is the hallmark of fast
growing societies, control is the hallmark of empire societies. Empire societies are relatively static, low
growth societies, with many social problems.
Control comes from the militarism of such a society. Control is the essence of the military
culture, where following orders is the main thing you do. Too much individuality and you lose your
place in the system. Followers are
wanted, not people who might take your place if you give them a chance. As a friend of mine said about academics,
improve things 2% and you are admired, improve things 3% or more and you are
crazy. Know your place, know your rank, and
don’t get too uppity. Judge people by
who they are and where they are at, don’t listen to them if they are beneath
your rank. Lots of people have risen to
their level of incompetence according to the Peter principle and they are
determined to lord it over you and abuse their authority.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">This has shown up in my personal experience living in a fast
growing West Coast state for almost twenty years and returning to a slow
growing Midwest state for over the last twenty
years. Living on the West Coast I could
walk into the offices of important people around the town of Eugene,
Oregon and
talk to them easily. Here in the Midwest I have trouble getting past the gatekeepers to
reach the people I need to talk to. A
friend from the same doctoral cohort is hard to get hold of, so I drop into his
office and catch him moving around while the secretary in the background
fumes. I see the community college
president in a meeting and one of his aides suggests I talk to the
provost. Then I try to do so, and I hit
a brick wall. No wonder mayor Paul
Soglin of Madison says we are the #9 city in
snobbery. San Francisco, by the way, is #1 in
snobbery. In Eugene, I just walked into
the office of the school superintendent and talked to her one day, and just
walked into the office of the vice president for research of the University of
Oregon and talked to him another day.
Here in Madison,
people recommend I talk to certain people about presenting my work and I am
treated rudely. At national and local
conferences of various sorts I often present, and even when I just drop in at
the last moment, I often steal the show from the sidelines. But you can see the resentment on certain
faces, even though people are amazed in the restrooms or walking around after
my presentations or questions. In Eugene they kept asking me back for TV interviews, in Madison, a radio control
freak changed the nature of the program I was using to air my thoughts to once
a month rather than once a week. They
also limited questions on their call in shows to once a week just because a
very knowledgeable friend of mine called in his excellent questions
frequently. And this is supposed to be a
community radio station.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">I saw the death of investigative journalism in the Reagan years
in Eugene. I attended the local forums of labor,
democrats, moderate republicans, and hard line republicans in the early
eighties. One radio station regularly
covered these forums in the early eighties but was not to be seen after a few
years. I called in regularly on C-SPAN
in the eighties. Wisconsin
public radio took my calls for many years in the nineties, but now, since a
Voice of America guy took over the broadcast, access is more narrowly
limited. It is harder than ever to get
the truth out in empire America
as the decades go by. Even Jimmy Carter
decries the death of real democracy in America. Just look at how open Al Jazeera America is
compared to FOX, CNN, and even MSNBC.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">More on control, militarism, and the social decay of empires:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/11421799/MILITARISM_CONTROL_EMPIRE_DECAY" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/11421799/MILITARISM_CONTROL_EMPIRE_DECAY</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Peace, Dr. Bob Reuschlein,
Real Economy Institute<br>
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Economics</i> free pdf on request by members of the press)<br>
An archive of this yearlong press release campaign can be found at: <a href="http://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/</a></span></p></div>
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