We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our conformist times and presents, with the help of experts as diverse as Thomas Piketty and George Orwell, a vision for a fairer, sexier society that’s fun and inclusive.
You have been lied to, told there’s no alternative, no choice, and that you don’t deserve any better. Brand destroys this illusory facade as amusingly and deftly as he annihilates Morning Joe anchors, Fox News fascists, and BBC stalwarts.
This book makes revolution not only possible but inevitable and fun.
A political class perceived as out of touch and self-serving. Punitive taxation frittered away on pointless foreign wars. Repressive labour legislation and wage control at home. A disaffected population feeling powerless, voiceless, angry and ripe for recruitment by radical preachers offering a vision of a new political and social order. Not to mention a deadly disease of apocalyptic proportions spreading uncontrollably across the world and threatening to invade our shores. 1381 — AND 2014.
Barker uncovers how and why a diverse and unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England – from the humblest serf forced to provide slave-labour for his master in the fields, to the prosperous country goodwife brewing, cooking and spinning her distaff, and the ambitious burgess expanding his business and his mental horizons – united in armed rebellion against Church and State to demand a radical political agenda. Had it been implemented, this agenda would have transformed English society and anticipated the French Revolution by four hundred years.
Robert is re-emerging into public life as well as private practice. This is the one URL to remember. If you share Robert's passion for getting it right, restoring intelligence with integrity to governance, creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all, please share this url with others as you think best.
Interviews across all forms of media are particularly sought.
CEO's in agony over their present course, seeking low-cost sustainable solutions centered on ethical evidence-based decision-support, are encouraged to communicate directly with Robert.
On the non-profit and academic front, Robert is working toward the creating of an Open Source Everything Innovation Hub. Get in touch if you have something to offer. Bubbles, CATALYST, and World Brain Cloud — all open source.
In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy.
What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers?
Tim Martin has his eyes opened by an enthralling new history that argues that Druids created a sophisticated ancient society to rival the Romans
Tim Martin
The Telegraph, 12 October 2014
EXTRACT
What surfaces from these elegant pages – if true – is nothing less than a wonder of the ancient world: the first solid evidence of Druidic science and its accomplishments and the earliest accurate map of a continent.
My recent attendance at Findhorn's New Story Summit, combined with my reading of two books, Micah Sifry's The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet) and Darrell West's Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, have come together to inspire a new book that seeks to unify the tribes with open source tools and aggregated money from four pots — UN SDG, Black Sheep Bilionaires, CEOs with angst, and USG. This is my winter project. North Atlantic Books, publisher of The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust, is on board contingent of course on my actually producing a useful book for their editor to work with — I cannot say enough good things about the editor that cut OSE in half and reduced all words by one syllable. Below is an early outline. I would be deeply grateful if you cared to read over the outline and give me feedback. At this point I am just asking two questions: 01 Do the phrases resonate? Should any of them be modified? 02 What am I missing — this is supposed to be a guide that brings us together for action rooted in spirituality, an end to lip service and me me me my hashtag or none fauz activism. What would you be looking for in such a book? Thank you for anything that might occur to you. I am most optimistic about the future. Blessings to you all, Robert
ELZA S. MAALOUF is a Lebanese-American futurist, theorist, author and public speaker. She is one of the foremost experts on the memetics of the Middle East who pioneered the use of the Value Systems framework and Integral Theory in Middle Eastern politics and business. As one of foremost experts in Memetics of the Middle East, Maalouf was named by EnlightenNext Magazine as one of today's brightest minds. In 2011 she was elected member of the Evolutionary Leaders, an organization made up of the leading Global minds in the fields of science, spirituality, and consciousness studies who's primary purpose is to advance the conscious evolution of humanity. She is also the founder of the Integral Insights Consulting (IIC) Group, and advisory which brings human potential research to bear on organizational challenges and opportunities. The IIC Group is dedicated to the multi-faceted development of individuals, teams and organizations. Ms. Maalouf is also the co-founder of the Center for Human Emergence Middle East, a think tank that emphasizes the scientific understanding of cultures through the prism of the “bio-psycho-social systems” framework of Clare W. Graves and his colleague and successor Don E. Beck. Maalouf examines
WHERE: The Offices of: Americans for Tax Reform 722 12th Street, NW #600 Washington DC 20005
WHEN: Wednesday October 29, 2014 12:00-2:00 PM (Lunch will be provided)
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