...somewhat suspect, worked for Richardson (a 'toon) 
Posted on 11/28/2009 6:19:17 PM PST by My_Name_is_a_Number
I am seeking Feedback on your views as to what is this person's political ideology. Your opinions are most appreciated.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/steventrevino
http://www.globalresilience.mysite.com
America was created as a liberal state out of the ideals of the Enlightenment, but most people nowadays quote figures of the Enlightenment for the furthering of the Liberal movement. Rene Descartes was against the Church, and so were many others. If someone were invoking the Enlightenment they are probably doing so in opposition to the Church. That is my take, but this guy never specified in his mission statement.
he speaks like obama— says a bunch of words that mean nothing
THe enlightenment and the Renaissance movements? I think you better rethink your take on that.
This sounds like big-business meeting-room doubletalk to me. I think he believes in $ix-$igma $ales $ynergy or some other corporate crap.
It’s another DC scam (liberal/marxist)
My read is that what Steven Travino means by Resilient Civilization is basically appeasement on steroids. He sees global governance and the demise of American supremacy and sovereignty as inevitable, and his attitude is to abandon all principle and do whatever seems expedient to come out in the best position possible under the new world order, whatever form that may take. He’s like a P.O.W. that doesn’t even wait to be tortured before spilling everything he knows in order to receive (as he hopes) the best possible treatment by his captives.
The "enlightenment" certainly was.
Have you heard of Rene Descartes? “I think, therefore I am.” Basically, this was self determination and anti-authority. He was saying that he was rational, as opposed to those who followed the “dogma” of the Church and the monarchy. He was saying that he could think for himself and didn’t need to be told what to do.
And why?
...somewhat suspect, worked for Richardson (a 'toon)
Your post suggested that anyone invoking (positively) the Renaissance and Enlightenment, is a (present-day) Liberal and Globalist. You are also mixing the present-day “liberal” with the historic term. A “liberal” today is something entirely different than 50, 100 or 200 years ago.
I am a Conservative and think the Renaissance and Enlightenment were just great. Does this make me a “lib globalist”?
There seem to be people (not meaning you), that wish back the superstition and narrow-minded world of the middle ages.
Cut out the “Globalist” from my previous post. It wasn’t you who suggested that part.
30 years ago in an engineering school technical communications class, we had a speaker who handed out a little “dial a buzzword” generator paper thingy. It had three concentric circles with 10 terms on each circle. You randomly spun them to create crap like “systems analysis interface”. It was a real lightbulb moment for me, and I didn’t trust obfuscatory low-content high-fallutin-sounding language ever again. This has served me well.
Sonofabeech! It’s still around, and online! LOLOL! I can’t believe I found it.
http://www.horton.com/html/cohenbuzzword.aspx
He uses a lot of words to say basically:
We need a one world government and religion.
There’s a little mix of Tony Robbins, Scientology, and New Age involved in his approach. Many of the self-help books, starting with Napoleon Hill, espoused creative visualization, in which you visualize what you want, believe you have it, and act as if you have it. Some televangelists modified it to create the “name it, claim it” gospel of prosperity.
On the other side, after laws stopped strikebreakers from busting heads, management largely became a game of trying to manipulate people into following organizational goals. Several programs, such as “Total Quality Management” came out of this. With me being in management, I saw the other side of TQM, which was sold to workers as being a decision-making process. In reality, most of these programs are about how I, as the manager, could steer people into following the goals the organization had already decided to implement and make them think it was their idea. There are also techniques for isolating and nullifying people who don’t get on board.
What this guy is doing (not that well, in my opinion) is trying to use the self help concepts in organizational structures to get the individual to align his or her goals with the organization.
The other stuff he’s pitching is breaking down the barriers between organizations, which ultimately means that all organizations are a branch of the same huge organization.
A lot of his terms are buzz words that have been coined by the different schools of thought I’ve outlined above.
The church in that era was as oppressive as Big Government is today, moreso in places / some ways.
Comparing the church in places that had a state religion during the Enlightenment era with the church in the U.S. today is completely bogus, but many attempt to do so.
Turn your amp volume and gain up all the way, and the volume on your guitar. Strike a nice open chord or even the harmonics, and move that guitar over to the speaker of the amp. You'll get some feedback then.
My Strat or Les Paul?
The church was as oppressive as modern, big government, because it wasn't just the church, it was the government, or an arm of it, as well. Hence the aversion of the Founders to a state religion.
The Church of England differed only superficially from Rome, as far as exerting political control. Freedom of religious belief existed in very few places at the time. The Dutch provided one notable haven. The United States had more Dutch influence than is generally acknowledged. It wasn't all Blackstone and feudal liege. It was Rotterdam, Natural Law, Liebniz, Spinoza and Vattel, too.
Why not use both?
Thanks for the link. I love it and had fun playing with it. Wish I had it when I was part of the technical comm. world.
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