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 Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2007 12:49 pm
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http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/

"No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
-H. L. Mencken


H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.


 

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From Howard (the wise?):


hi.
 
I just wanted to let you in on the inner process of launching a new book.
 
You never know whether the book you've written is going to hit home with the people you care about most, your readers. 
 
So it was amazing to discover a few minutes ago that as of 09-06-2009, pre-orders for my upcoming book, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism have driven the book to #88 in the Amazon category of Business & Investing>Economics>Free Enterprise.
 
That's nearly three months before the book is due for publication. It comes out November 25.
 
And it's despite the fact that this is a book about Western Civilization, Western Civilization seen from a point of view you've never imagined.  It's not a free market screed.
 
More soon--
 
Howard

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That link comes from my connection with Howard Bloom via e-mail.

I have yet to read it through, here is a quote:

How many people who are alive today weren't even born in 1964? It's gotta be around five billion. Okay, for all you poor, unfortunate buggers who missed it, here's a ten minute audio clip of what was going on in early September forty-five years ago. It's from Chapter Thirteen ("Clayton Street") of The Audio Book of GINNY GOOD—easily and by far the best, most important work of literary art made anywhere in the world so far this century.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch13clip.mp3

Nobody's gonna listen to it, of course. People only listen to the trivial drivel their owners pay propaganda goons to get them to listen to, but so what? I made it. That was what I wanted to do. You can learn more about how the media and entertainment cabal rots your brain, robs you blind and keeps you a stupid slave from cradle to grave by reading Chapters 39-42 of Oprah's Dead Son.

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Machiavelli's outlook was darkly pessimistic; the one element of St Augustine's thought which he wholeheartedly endorsed was the idea of original sin. As he puts it starkly in the same chapter 18 of The Prince, men are bad. This means that to deal with them as if they were good, honourable or trustworthy is to court disaster. In the Discourses (I,3) the point is repeated: 'all men are bad and are ever ready to display their malignity'. This must be the initial premise of those who play to found a republic. The business of politics is to try and salvage something positive from this unpromising conglomerate, and the aim of the state is to check those anarchic drives which are a constant threat to the common good. This is where The Prince fits into the spectrum of his wider thought: while a republic may be his preferred form of social organization, the crucial business of founding or restoring a state can only be performed by one exceptional individual.

Intro quote in my copy of The Prince

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