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Interview With Phil Rockstroh-- on Capitalism, Evil, Psychopaths, Soul and more

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Broadcast 6/5/2014 at 12:00 AM EDT (156 Listens, 71 Downloads, 1962 Itunes)
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Phil Rockstroh is a longtime contributor to Opednews.com

Phil's bio states: Phil Rockstroh is a poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living in New York City and sometimes he describes himself as an autodidactic gasbag

He has also been a comedian and comedy writer, and he's a man with Jungian proclivities.

Very Rough interview notes: not a summary, just teasers to get you to listen.

Rob: to start us off, here's something you wrote in one of your most recent articles.

"...decide what your song will be, arrange it according to your individual talents, and start to sing. Because we must end this paradigm or it will end us.

The changes we yearn for must be first glimpsed and nurtured in the heart. Creative expression (e.g., art, poetry, fiction, inspired prose) serves as the quickening agent of dreams. Language constellates from the quanta of possibility, where it gains scope and shape, so that ideas can become manifested by means of action and form.

The heart must be allowed to dream, grieve, and yearn before the world itself even becomes possible."

Phil: For everything that comes into the world, something is lost.--

We have lost things due to being on the world wide web.

Phil: Hitler described walking in his sleep

Phil: Truman created greatest terrorist act in history

Rob: Psychopaths, sociopaths, are charismatic predators, some would say Evil

Rob: what do you mean the psychopathology of everyday life?

Phil: Life lives off death and the psychopath gets that message. Civilization and humanity comes when we minimize that.

Rob You talked about the tie between psychopathy and empire

hagiography about the troops.

Phil: What else is American exceptionalism but a psychopathic approach to the world?

Rob: can you explain that?

Phil: We have a ruling elite that is essentially a vampire class". we exist to enhance their fortunes.

Phil: she nearly plotzed--

Phil: Obama is the more effective Republican. he and Bill CLinton were the more effective Ronald Reagan

Rob: recently interviewed James C. Scott, who has written about domination. What's your take on domination?

Phil: Addiction to "more" Quote of Eric Hoffer "You can never get enough of what you really don't need."

Rob: you've said that capitalism, which only allows a small percentage to win, encourages narcissistic psychopathic behavior. But isn't that true for civilization too?

Phil: Story of Eros and Psyche

Phil: There is the banality of evil and the evil of banality.

Phil: What Kabir calls the music of interior time

Rob: What's your take on the fascination with Zombies and the apocalyptic genre?

Phil: We're at a point of paradigm shift or perish

". everywhere we look there is a form of gothic horror.

Phil: there would be a revolution tomorrow if Starbucks was closed and coffee was banned.

Rob: I look at this dazzling, exquisite monster in front of me which is the contemporary world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ward Churchill "We are all little Eichmans."

Hannah Arendt-- Eichman in Jerusalem

Phil: Empire is about as monstrous as it gets.

Rob: What is the alternative to Empire?

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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
 

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