News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Friday December 19th 2025
Paradise Island
By Peter Molenaar
While referring to the “Vulture Capitalism” associated with the career of Mr. Mitt Romney, the friendly capitalist, Mr. Warren Buffet said: “There is a real difference between investing and building a company that makes something or provides a service that adds value to the economy, and a barbarian-at-the-gate-style enterprise that loots and strips, making millions for its executives by ripping holes in the economic fabric”. So, come the election, it appears we will decide which sector of capital prevails.
Meanwhile”¦
Locally, our Senator Jeff Hayden and Representatives Karen Clark and Susan Allen are spearheading the “Vote No Campaign”. They ask that we uphold the rights of all committed couples and stand up for the democratic rights of the electorate. Vote no on the anti-Marriage Amendment. Vote no on the Photo ID /Voter Restriction Amendment.
As it happened, I took an assignment to door knock in the Hawthorne Neighborhood in North Minneapolis. I am pleased to report that the voter restriction issue opened many doors.
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Letter to the Community
The medium, or process of our time ”“ electric technology ”“ is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing ”“ you, your family, your neighbourhood, your education, your job, your government, your relation to “the others.” And they”'re changing dramatically.
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. The alphabet, for instance, is a technology that is absorbed by the very young child in a completely unconscious manner, by osmosis so to speak. Words and the meaning of words predispose the child to think and act automatically in certain ways. The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and of detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement. It is impossible to understand social and cultural changes without a knowledge of the workings of media.
“The older training of observation has become quite irrelevant in this new time, because it is based on psychological responses and concepts conditioned by the former technology ”“ mechanization.… Read the rest “Letter to the Community”
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October 2012 Spirit of Phillips
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