[UC] Hitchcock still missing
Hitchcock's owners have just re-posted their ad on c'slist: Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our beloved cat, Hitchcock, is still missing. We had a posting up a little while ago, but it seems to have expired. Hitchcock has been missing since 10/17/2007, three days before my husband and I were married. We are still looking and trying to find out if he is still with us and if nothing else, what happened to him. He is a 13 year old male brown tabby with yellow eyes, a white chin, and weighs about 13 pounds. He is diabetic. I have had some strange leads that did not pan out completely, so if you have any additional information, please be in touch. attachment: Hitchcock.jpg
Re: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process
Thanks for posting this transcript. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12212007/transcript1.html Barber's analysis and comments are extremely salient. I've thought a good bit about the loss of citizenship as the result of gross utilitarianism permeating society. There are units of pleasure and units of getting ahead in the lives of all consumers and very little life force left for citizenship or genuine community spirit; those things which bring real joy and real security. But Barber's discussion of global capitalism was indeed illuminating and thought provoking. And his discussion about infantilizing adults resonated quite strongly with me, and concisely names a process which has been growing since the backlash against the hope of the Great Society. Locally. anyone who has gone to the unveiling of any corporate Penn project in recent years has seen the wish list process; part of the manifestation of the infantilizing process in action. Here, our community is repeatedly told that inclusion, transparency, and accountability are not necessary in the new University Consumer District(UCD). Good consumers and good neighbors must dedicate their voice at public meetings or public places to shout out their wish list. This paradigm insists that the principals of democratic systems are inefficient foolishness which will fail to make us cleaner and safer. Community members must not talk about their needs as a community but about the community as a candy land destination. Yes, the community must be converted to a candy land for tourists and all of us consumers are reduced to yelling gimme gimme. In this process, all the code words and phrases all say to our addicted consumers: if you keep your place, you will get lots of trickle down corporate Penn wealth. Historic preservation, cleaner and safer, and improving the neighborhood all have that same intended meaning to the addicted. Like the sight of a needle excites cravings in a heroin addict, the sound of these code phrases excites the UCD candy land consumer. The infantilized consumer views dissent as sour grapes. Processaholics are seen and reduced, not as citizens voicing a fundamental duty to preserve and pass on a democratic system, but as losers who did not get their way at wish list time. I would defer to Tony West's excellent explanation of winners and losers in a representative democracy. The divisiveness that we have discussed on this list is simply another part of the infantilizing process. By insisting on secrecy and back room deals, the community is intentionally split by corporate manipulators and the intentional divisiveness in our community is portrayed as squabbling infants in a fight over candy, setting up the process to be used again and again by anointed experts. But I believe, that had too large a percentage of us not already been infantilized; this community would have mobilized to put the brakes on this repeating and consistent local process. Instead of shouting out wishes each time like a candy addicted child and shouting code words like historic preservation and cleaner and safer, we would have one message for corporate Penn: STOP TREATING US WITH CONTEMPT AS IF WE ARE NOTHING BUT SPOILED BRATS. Take your revitalization and historic preservation back to campus until your wolves conduct themselves like responsible citizens rather than as the candy men and women. I really hope everyone on the list reads the transcript and considers Barber's analysis. Glenn, a loud citizen - Original Message - From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: University City List UnivCity@list.purple.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process Glenn wrote: The thing that bothers me locally is, why do the anointed and Penn Real Estate keep getting bolder rather than embarrassed? And more globally, why do I hear the same stories about identical process problems repeating across the country. In my opinion, we need to be more vocal about demanding the fundamentals of appropriate process. Otherwise, the blueprint that keeps showing up to subvert a democratic system; a system being taken for granted, will eventually succeed. I'm concerned about this as well. I believe one factor that contributes greatly to this erosion of process is the erosion of citizenship (our public civic life) -- which has become increasingly replaced by capitalism (our private consumerist lives). yes, you've heard me say all that before. but I recently heard bill moyers interview an author who says the same thing. his name is benjamin barber and he just wrote a book called CONSUMED: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. listening to their conversation was illuminating -- it explores the relationship between democracy and capitalism (both of which are in trouble) on a local and global scale... read the
RE: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:02:13 -0500 The divisiveness that we have discussed on this list is simply another part of the infantilizing process. By insisting on secrecy and back room deals, the community is intentionally split by corporate manipulators and the intentional divisiveness in our community is portrayed as squabbling infants in a fight over candy, setting up the process to be used again and again by anointed experts. ... Glenn, a loud citizen Actually, the corporate manipulators portray themselves and those community members they've bought off in secret back-room deals as being the winners in a fair and open process. Those advancing the agenda will first try to buy others off with trinkets, like fake inclusion (lets' meet for coffee), or being tossed [literally] a bone we're putting in a great new restaurant). Disinformation will be spread (A multi-billion dollar university cannot possibly do anything else with that site!). The agenda will be presented in controlled settings by presenters who just show up with little or no advance notice, and with no attempt to include those who are not members of the group comprising the audience. Those controlled presentations are then palmed off as proof of community engagement. Those who can't be bought off or made to shut up are then characterized as the crybaby infants, sore losers, malcontents, anarchists, or whatever. I just re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell. I first read it in junior high school, but it is best read from the perspective of an adult. Read (or re-read) it. It will sound very familiar, I promise. Karen Allen
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Re: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process
I just re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell. Are you trying to imply that there are similarities between characters and visions in our beloved Univericity Consumer District and an Orwellian Animal Farm of little piggies? Excuse me and break my routine, but we UCD piggies don't take kindly to that kind of talk. Those wild animals that wish to be cleaner and safer and dine with the big pigs don't talk treason in this district. With eyes looking at you, Squealer - Original Message - From: KAREN ALLEN To: Glenn ; UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN ; University City List Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] FCC dissenter speaks about process Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:02:13 -0500 The divisiveness that we have discussed on this list is simply another part of the infantilizing process. By insisting on secrecy and back room deals, the community is intentionally split by corporate manipulators and the intentional divisiveness in our community is portrayed as squabbling infants in a fight over candy, setting up the process to be used again and again by anointed experts. ... Glenn, a loud citizen Actually, the corporate manipulators portray themselves and those community members they've bought off in secret back-room deals as being the winners in a fair and open process. Those advancing the agenda will first try to buy others off with trinkets, like fake inclusion (lets' meet for coffee), or being tossed [literally] a bone we're putting in a great new restaurant). Disinformation will be spread (A multi-billion dollar university cannot possibly do anything else with that site!). The agenda will be presented in controlled settings by presenters who just show up with little or no advance notice, and with no attempt to include those who are not members of the group comprising the audience. Those controlled presentations are then palmed off as proof of community engagement. Those who can't be bought off or made to shut up are then characterized as the crybaby infants, sore losers, malcontents, anarchists, or whatever. I just re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell. I first read it in junior high school, but it is best read from the perspective of an adult. Read (or re-read) it. It will sound very familiar, I promise. Karen Allen -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1213 - Release Date: 1/7/2008 9:14 AM
