Comments on: The czar works for the Kossacks (aka why we don’t need leaders to save us) http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:58:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DomPierre http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-8007 DomPierre Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:19:38 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-8007 Warren Beaty did play Dick Tracy. I think that should count for something. ;) Your other choices are good. I'd prolly pass on Reich. I'd add George Soros to my list too in place of Obama. Maybe David McCullough, Garry Wills, and Howard Zinn too. Warren Beaty did play Dick Tracy. I think that should count for something. ;)

Your other choices are good. I’d prolly pass on Reich.

I’d add George Soros to my list too in place of Obama. Maybe David McCullough, Garry Wills, and Howard Zinn too.

]]> By: djESNO http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7995 djESNO Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:31:00 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7995 albert gore albert gore

]]> By: djESNO http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7994 djESNO Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:29:17 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7994 warren beatty? really? how about..... dennis kucinich robert reich bill moyers russ feingold just my two cents. warren beatty? really?

how about…..

dennis kucinich
robert reich
bill moyers
russ feingold

just my two cents.

]]> By: DomPierre http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7939 DomPierre Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:46:36 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7939 I think I'd start by revising or rewriting the existing constitution and the bill of rights. We have 200+ years of experience and now would be a good time to put it to use. And these are a top few of the people living today I'd like to see help draft it. - Haynes Johnson - Jerry Brown - Bill Clinton - Alan Simpson - Barack Obama - Steve Jobs - Noam Chomsky - Jack Stack - Amitai Etzioni - Warren Beatty - Amy Goodman - Paul Krugman - Some people from Europe, Asia, the Mid-East, Africa, and a few other countries. I think I’d start by revising or rewriting the existing constitution and the bill of rights. We have 200+ years of experience and now would be a good time to put it to use.

And these are a top few of the people living today I’d like to see help draft it.

- Haynes Johnson
- Jerry Brown
- Bill Clinton
- Alan Simpson
- Barack Obama
- Steve Jobs
- Noam Chomsky
- Jack Stack
- Amitai Etzioni
- Warren Beatty
- Amy Goodman
- Paul Krugman
- Some people from Europe, Asia, the Mid-East, Africa, and a few other countries.

]]> By: DomPierre http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7912 DomPierre Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:22:14 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7912 Ann, I'll have another post later today, but this is what Dee Hock, founder of VISA International, said about 5-10 years ago. <i>"We do not have a health care problem. We do not have an educational problem, a welfare problem, an environmental problem or an economic problem. They are symptom not disease. At bottom, we have an institutional problem, and until we properly diagnose and deal with it, societal problems will get progressively worse. There is simply no way to govern the diversity and complexity of twenty first century society with eighteenth century concepts of organization. Efforts to reinvent government are laudable, but they are not enough. We must reconceive the fundamental nature of governance itself."</i> "The Puritan Gift" by William and Kenneth Hopper is on my book list to read. Ann, I’ll have another post later today, but this is what Dee Hock, founder of VISA International, said about 5-10 years ago.

“We do not have a health care problem. We do not have an educational problem, a welfare problem, an environmental problem or an economic problem. They are symptom not disease. At bottom, we have an institutional problem, and until we properly diagnose and deal with it, societal problems will get progressively worse. There is simply no way to govern the diversity and complexity of twenty first century society with eighteenth century concepts of organization. Efforts to reinvent government are laudable, but they are not enough. We must reconceive the fundamental nature of governance itself.”

“The Puritan Gift” by William and Kenneth Hopper is on my book list to read.

]]> By: Ann http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7905 Ann Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:43:34 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7905 What kind of structural change? I'd be interested to hear your ideas. If you've already explained them at length elsewhere, a link would be fine. What kind of structural change? I’d be interested to hear your ideas. If you’ve already explained them at length elsewhere, a link would be fine.

]]> By: DomPierre http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7892 DomPierre Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:00:15 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7892 Y'know, I've started to reply about three different times. I had a good one about the Cheers show where Frazier bet that he could get Woody Boyd elected to office. But then I realized this as already happened in reality. Every 4 years, I think the political field for president couldn't get worse. Every 4 years, I'm proven wrong. Yes, people have to demand better from the candidates. But even when they do and say, oh for instance, Democrats are voted in, then we find out they're not really gonna change anything, and in fact, it's more of the same. No wonder half the people don't vote. Gimme a Woody Boyd-kinda candidate and I'll get 'em elected. No, I'm convinced there needs to be a new system and an overall change in the structure of government. Today the United States isn't united. And as long as corporations wield the influence they do today, nothing will likely change. In fact, things will get worse and worse and worse, until they can't get worse. Then things will change. Y’know, I’ve started to reply about three different times. I had a good one about the Cheers show where Frazier bet that he could get Woody Boyd elected to office. But then I realized this as already happened in reality.

Every 4 years, I think the political field for president couldn’t get worse. Every 4 years, I’m proven wrong. Yes, people have to demand better from the candidates. But even when they do and say, oh for instance, Democrats are voted in, then we find out they’re not really gonna change anything, and in fact, it’s more of the same. No wonder half the people don’t vote. Gimme a Woody Boyd-kinda candidate and I’ll get ‘em elected.

No, I’m convinced there needs to be a new system and an overall change in the structure of government. Today the United States isn’t united. And as long as corporations wield the influence they do today, nothing will likely change. In fact, things will get worse and worse and worse, until they can’t get worse. Then things will change.

]]> By: Jim Booth http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7865 Jim Booth Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:28:44 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/10/30/the-czar-works-for-the-kossacks-aka-why-we-dont-need-leaders-to-save-us/#comment-7865 Well said, Martin. And who'd a thunk Kos could be so insightful? ;-) Seriously, the message you bear here is one America needs shoved down its throat like a Geico ad campaign. Now if we only had Madison Ave at our disposal.... Or you were a gecko or caveman.... ;-) Well said, Martin. And who’d a thunk Kos could be so insightful? ;-)

Seriously, the message you bear here is one America needs shoved down its throat like a Geico ad campaign. Now if we only had Madison Ave at our disposal….

Or you were a gecko or caveman…. ;-)

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