White Monkeys

I caught a good chunk of Gunga Din, on the Turner Network.. with Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant and Victor MacGlacklen (sp)..wait maybe it was that other beautiful guy..not Cary Grant..yeah it was..doing a working class accent, as a lifer sargent in the British Army, who get ambushed in the Kyber Pass by a Shiva worshipping sect, known as Thugs..Gunga Din (aka Sam Jaffe) saves the day at the end..but you see a good view of Brit imperialism during the 1890s..What has changed? What have we learned from the experiences of Victorian England? Now it's us on the line, mucking around in colonies...while 12 million illegal immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatamala, Honduras, etc, invade our economy, and have come out of the shadows long enough to march en masse in LA, Chicago and other cities..come to work for ten bucks an hour at a job once held by an american labor union member for 30 bucks..sure..its nice for the contractors..the playing fields in the workforce are being leveled by competition who live 8 to a room, who pay no taxes, work off the books and ship half of their paycheck out of the country to their starving relatives....Now we have billionaires who pay no tax, and 12 million working people who pay no taxes..Why couldn't we have invested 10 percent (tithe) of our GNP to build sustainable systems in the lands of our neighbors, to build up THEIR economies so that they don't have to come swarming over the border..This resembles the end of the Roman empire...with people pouring over the borders, not necessarily to rape plunder and pillage, but looking for work in the Roman style..looking for economic opportunities..

Theme for an artist TV think Tank

I wrote this letter to a friend of mine who did a TV show with me, who bemoaned the fact that there is very little intellectual discussion in the US...and how slogans are replacing actual conversation..and how intelligence is considered "unhip".

Hi Giorgio, Thanks for doing the show with me..It was
really inspiring..I was thinking about what you were
saying about finding truth in a logical fashion..Maybe
we could get a series of ideas/themes together, like
you mentioned, and discuss them, with other artists, a
sort of TV Think Tank..Bill Maher did it for a while
with Politically Incorrect, but they used the Fox
model of "shouting each other down", interrupting each
other, so that the loudest one got the floor. It was
an irritating show. The protocol would have to be
more on the model of improvisation, or Iroquois or
Quaker meeting model, where each speaks until they are
finished and then the next person who wishes to speak
gets the floor..