Joho the Blog
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You were AWESOME! Seriously.....What you said was all about philosophy and psychology and the real ideals of democracy......

All I could do was jump up and holler YES every few minutes....(pretty good for a 58 year ols with a bad back)...it was like, hey, the guy just invented ice cream..why didn't I think of that?

I own an ISP and YOUR words today have given me a plan as to how to totally re-direct how we do what we do as to web design and helping our business hosting/design clients succeed....just wait world, but....we will have a NEW rule at VIRTBIZ..if you are a bullshit business that does not deliver what you promise..we will FIRE you as a client!

Thank you VERY much!

Klaus

(A) You begin at about 55 minutes in.

(B) I hope you correct her somewhere in there about what your latest book is (Small Pieces Loosely Joined). . . .

(C) The yelling is good.

David

Watched the replay late last night on C-Span2. Your candor was refreshing, you were clearly ON.
Bravo - keep the audacity dialed up. Great performance.

direct link to the video stream

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/c04/c04042604_tech.rm

Thanks for the encouragement. And Greg, thanks for the link!

C-SPAN will never be the same! Good job; the "yelling" is something we should hear more often. It's called "passion", something that we could use more of on C-SPAN.

I'm not certain that marketing (and marketing hating the off-message imperfect) is in itself a bad thing -- it's critical to the core of the creative tension essential to effective politics. There must be pushing and pulling in order to effect constructive change. Without marketing building newer and better models of perfection and human realist citizens/consumers pushing back when they find flaws, there would be no democracy. Democracy is fluid, dynamic, under tension.

What is flawed is the role of the corporate in politics; corporations should have no rights at all, particularly in regards to voting outcomes. Which brings us to Dean: perhaps the problem with Dean is that he had an insufficiency of rationale among corporate interests. Did corporate interests rend the otherwise healthy dynamic tension between marketing and consumers/citizens?

Your address was the far and away the most insightful of that day-long conference, or anything else I've read or heard in many months.
I've already sent the C-SPAN URL where your remarks are archived to many friends and colleagues. Though new to your blogs,I find them similarly engaging. I especially appreciate the passion with which you rediculed the astronomical sums of money being spent on political TV spots carefully crafted to appeal to the lizard part of our brain, and the whole marketing approach to politics. Amen!!!

I find your "in person" presentations as enjoyable as Ted Turner. You certainly did not speak to my lizard brain.

A day late?

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