Hi M,
Full house for Hamilton (musical) on a Wednesday afternoon The Orpheum in SF - interesting slice of diverse San Francisco populace life. Lots of young people.
Color conscious cast ...
am curious in what ways an E.W. could win with engaging the Internet in ways all the other candidates don't know how to ...
will read further in Manuel Castells' book "Communication Power" (2009 / 2013) in these regards ...
Scott
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Castells:
" ... While most pronounced in American elections, the tendency to reduce elections to horse-race politics is evident in countries around the world (Sussman, 2005).
Moreover, sensationalism drives political reporting: exposing the wrong-doing of the powerful has always been the solace of the populace, and nowadays it can be interpreted on a mass-communicated theatrical stage (Plasser, 2005). A key feature of theatrical politics is its personalization (Bosetti, 2007). A mass audience requires a simple message. The simplest message is an image; the simplest image, and the one with which people can identify the most, is a human face (Giles, 2002). This does not only mean the physical traits of a person or the color of her clothes. More important is the person's character, as it is manifest in her appearance, words, and the information and memories that she embodies. This is partly because understanding complex policy issues can be taxing for many citizens, while most of the have confidence in their ability to judge character, which is an emotional response to the behavior of persons embedded in political narratives (Hollihan, personal communication, 2008). Thus, media politics is personalized politics, or what Martin Wattenberg (1991, 2004, 2006) refers to as "candidate-centered politics." As Wattenberg points out, media technologies such as "television, direct mail, and now the Internet have freed candidates from reliance on political parties, thereby allowing campaigns to be run independently of party affiliation" (2004: 144). This is perhaps the most important effect of media politics on the political process because it provokes parties, unions, NGOs, and other political actors to rally around one person and bet on her chances alone in the political media market.
This was always the case in the United States and Latin America. But in the past 20 years, coinciding precisely with the growing centrality of media politics, personality politics has characterized the political process in the entire world, to the detriment of stable parties, ideological affinities, and political machines. The question is who selects whom. The media make the leaders known, and dwell on their battles, victories, and defeats, because narratives need heroes (the candidate), villains (the opponent), and victims to be rescued (citizens). But the would-be leaders have to position themselves as media-worthy, by using any available opening to display their tricks (or their virtues, for that matter). ... "
(Castells, Manuel, 2013 / 2009, "Communication Power" in chapter 4: Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy, p. 202).
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Purple-throated carib hummingbird: Great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom * * * "Hamilton the musical" - Revolutionary and radical? * * * Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe * * * Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) * * * Collecting in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room in Anthropology department
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Hi M,
I found this amusing ... (NOT when, why, who ... or where:) ...
Will the #MuellerReport be released? Panelists at Harvard agreed it
will, but the question is how.
...
Will the #MuellerReport be released? Panelists at Harvard agreed it will, but the question is how.
Will the #MuellerReport be released? Panelists at Harvard agreed it will, but the question is how. https://t.co/HIV2obiYme— Harvard University (@Harvard) April 9, 2019
- https://twitter.com/Harvard/st
Two further articles re E.W ... the media will play a huge role in this 2020 election ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer
With all the rules having flown out the window with the last pres. election, do you think impeachment proceedings against T could create an opening for a challenger in 2020, and do you think Warren could win this ... on policy ? :)
L, Scott
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Hi M,
Think I'm leaning toward E.W. - "The top 15 Democratic presidential candidates of 2020, ranked" ...
https://www.washingtonpost.
https://www.washingtonpost.
You?
On with World Univ and Sch licensing ... a different presidency :)
L, Scott
CV has grown to 15 pages:)
- https://docs.google.com/
& at top here:
http://scottmacleod.com/
> https://scott-macleod.
& at top here:
http://scottmacleod.com/
> https://scott-macleod.
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Hi M,
Hamilton (musical) resources ...
Lyrics:
Wikipedia description of Hamilton:
Re its commercialization - movie in 2020 apparently
I think an E.W. could come to office in 2020 running policy-wise on a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks - and even Universal Basic Income experiments (on a BANK card - as 'product,' - e.g. the 'debit cards' mentioned here "Will ‘basic income’ become the California norm? Stockton starts $500 no-strings payments" ... https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article226280230.html - or for those who have them, on smart phones) - in the same way Alexander Hamilton started the banking system in the US. And re Castells ...
Don't think I'll post this to Twitter re WUaS (but I might include it in a blog post).
How was your day?
L, Scott
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Full house for Hamilton (musical) on Wednesday SF's Orpheum. Interesting slice of diverse San Francisco populace life. Lots of young people. Color conscious cast ...
>
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Theater_Arts … & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Banking_and_Money … since A. Hamilton started US banks, wrote 51 Federalist papers
Full house for Hamilton (musical) on Wednesday SF's Orpheum. Interesting slice of diverse San Francisco populace life. Lots of young people. Color conscious cast— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) April 12, 2019
>https://t.co/Xonj5aQTwo & https://t.co/xkZoYTa0yU since A. Hamilton started US banks, wrote 51 Federalist papers pic.twitter.com/NHWADEsHP1
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1116722756047892480
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(The musical 'Hamilton' was first produced in 2015).
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From the Program Notes to "Hamilton" at the Orpheum in SF, page 3:
"4. The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton's plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank.
Hamilton establishes a quasi-central bank. It was called The Bank of the United States, and it had branches. It was 80 percent private money and 20 percent government. How was Hamilton going to pay a judge in South Carolina? Well, he has a branch of the bank there, so instead of having to send the money by horse, he can just make a book entry to pay that judge. It makes the ease and process so much better. It's also where people put their money in, and it can be lent out. This was created by him and passed by Congress and is the only national bank. By the time he leaves office in '95 (1795), there is a band that has five branches.
5. The $10 founding father.
When Hamilton takes office, we're using foreign currency. Hamilton decides we're going to have our own (national currency]. We're not going to rely on foreign currencies (which do stay in circulation for years), but we're going to set our own U.S. dollar and have our own currency.
- Jessica Steans-Gail"
(from "A HAMILTON HISTORY LESSON: The president of the Museum of American Finance weighs in on Alexander Hamilton's legacy," SHN Orpheum Theatre, Apr-May 2019 Vol. 6, No. 7)
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Hi M,
Glad Sue and Tim are coming to visit today - for lunch and a hike. Hope they don't get lost getting to the Post Office in Canyon where I'll meet them. :) May harvest the beet greens for lunch!
A work in progress, and having added a photo from Wednesday at The Orpheum SF, more about Hamilton, and possibly how a single cryptocurrency with UBI experiments could help a presidential candidate into office in 2020, here -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/adrift-by-wind-sailor-velella-full.html (and https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1116722756047892480). What do you think? :)
What are you up to this weekend? Did you walk with your lady friends today? :)
S
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Adrift by-the-wind: Full house for Hamilton (musical)
#UBIexperiments #UniversalBasicIncome Single cryptocurrency backed by ~200 countries' central banks on CARD? "Will ‘basic income’ become the California norm? Stockton starts $500 no-strings payments" https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/adrift-by-wind-sailor-velella-full.html ~
Adrift by-the-wind: Full house for Hamilton (musical)#UBIexperiments @UniversalBasicIncome Single cryptocurrency backed by ~200 countries' central banks on CARD? "Will ‘basic income’ become the California norm? Stockton starts $500 no-strings payments" https://t.co/HvsFaqtnlY ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 12, 2019
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1116733556787515392
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1116733307482337280
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Sunday, April 14, 2019
Hey, M,
Some further thoughts about "Hamilton" here - https://scott-macleod.
Nice to have Sue and Tim's visit. Seems like somehow the "air has cleared even further" ... around the time my main internet signal from dish on roof went off and then even the smartphone's hot spot didn't work well concurrently (Sue had mentioned on Friday during their visit the word 'hot spot' for some reason, ... anticipating Saturday's outage) for a while ... but friend (and sometimes I wonder if he grew up as a UU in Maine), MIT and Yale graduate Jim Spohrer posted a Tweet about 2 fallen oaks yesterday afternoon too - https://twitter.com/
Probably heading to two musical events further at Stanford today. What are you up to? :)
L, Scott
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Castells:
" ... While most pronounced in American elections, the tendency to reduce elections to horse-race politics is evident in countries around the world (Sussman, 2005).
Moreover, sensationalism drives political reporting: exposing the wrong-doing of the powerful has always been the solace of the populace, and nowadays it can be interpreted on a mass-communicated theatrical stage (Plasser, 2005). A key feature of theatrical politics is its personalization (Bosetti, 2007). A mass audience requires a simple message. The simplest message is an image; the simplest image, and the one with which people can identify the most, is a human face (Giles, 2002). This does not only mean the physical traits of a person or the color of her clothes. More important is the person's character, as it is manifest in her appearance, words, and the information and memories that she embodies. This is partly because understanding complex policy issues can be taxing for many citizens, while most of the have confidence in their ability to judge character, which is an emotional response to the behavior of persons embedded in political narratives (Hollihan, personal communication, 2008). Thus, media politics is personalized politics, or what Martin Wattenberg (1991, 2004, 2006) refers to as "candidate-centered politics." As Wattenberg points out, media technologies such as "television, direct mail, and now the Internet have freed candidates from reliance on political parties, thereby allowing campaigns to be run independently of party affiliation" (2004: 144). This is perhaps the most important effect of media politics on the political process because it provokes parties, unions, NGOs, and other political actors to rally around one person and bet on her chances alone in the political media market.
This was always the case in the United States and Latin America. But in the past 20 years, coinciding precisely with the growing centrality of media politics, personality politics has characterized the political process in the entire world, to the detriment of stable parties, ideological affinities, and political machines. The question is who selects whom. The media make the leaders known, and dwell on their battles, victories, and defeats, because narratives need heroes (the candidate), villains (the opponent), and victims to be rescued (citizens). But the would-be leaders have to position themselves as media-worthy, by using any available opening to display their tricks (or their virtues, for that matter). ... "
(Castells, Manuel, 2013 / 2009, "Communication Power" in chapter 4: Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy, p. 202).
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From the Program Notes to "Hamilton" at the Orpheum in SF, page 3:
"4. The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton's plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank.
Hamilton establishes a quasi-central bank. It was called The Bank of the United States, and it had branches. It was 80 percent private money and 20 percent government. How was Hamilton going to pay a judge in South Carolina? Well, he has a branch of the bank there, so instead of having to send the money by horse, he can just make a book entry to pay that judge. It makes the ease and process so much better. It's also where people put their money in, and it can be lent out. This was created by him and passed by Congress and is the only national bank. By the time he leaves office in '95 (1795), there is a band that has five branches.
5. The $10 founding father.
When Hamilton takes office, we're using foreign currency. Hamilton decides we're going to have our own (national currency]. We're not going to rely on foreign currencies (which do stay in circulation for years), but we're going to set our own U.S. dollar and have our own currency.
- Jessica Steans-Gail"
(from "A HAMILTON HISTORY LESSON: The president of the Museum of American Finance weighs in on Alexander Hamilton's legacy," SHN Orpheum Theatre, Apr-May 2019 Vol. 6, No. 7)
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Hi M,
Me-wonders these days if a certain group are losing a self-perceived grip on some aspects of internet communications (like, are Wikipedians diffusing around a kind of perceived strangle-hold by said weird group? - as one example of many many) ... Sometimes, I've thought of myself being of the wrong faith re not having World University and School entry in Wikipedia, for example ... I can only make inferences about how such processes work ... but am still walking, typing, writing here, day by day (Maneul Castells is a help ... and as a Catalan re Spain, he's experienced a kind of freedom identity-wise in recent years, since Catalonia declared independence in 2017 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_declaration_of_independence - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29478415) ... and WUaS is quietly coming into fruition.
Would World University and School be able to declare a kind of world currency coming out of the state California in some of these regards, and distributed via a Universal Basic Income even to all 7. 5 billion people ? :) (How could we add all 7.5 billion people to a California database? :))
On with BPPE licensing with state of CA writing project ...
L, S
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