I am up in the Catskills at the Library. Earlier, I picked up a huge case box of my book, Slingshot to the Juggernaut. I thought I would share the letter I wrote to my readers, who bought the book and have been waiting patiently for it:
Sander Hicks
PO Box 4
Livingston
Manor, NY 12758
Dear
Thanks for ordering my book “Slingshot to the Juggernaut”
several months ago when I was out on the road. I apologize in the delay in
getting this book to you, but it’s enclosed now. The tour was spiritually very
nourishing, but it’s taken me a bit of time to get back on my feet. I have been
working in carpentry and construction. Finally I have the resources to send out
back orders.
I thought I would take a minute and write a letter, too, to
let you know what I have been up to, since speaking in your community.
This Fall, in between carpentry gigs, I spoke at the Free
University and at the Mind-Body Institute, on the subject of activism, finance,
and production. I am beginning to realize that I have something new to teach,
based on my experiences, and it’s not just 9/11 Truth (or how to build loft
beds).
Towards the end of Slingshot,
I talk about “Occupy Business School” which was a set of ideas I spoke on at
Occupy Wall Street, in NYC, in the Fall of 2011. I have been building on that and
fleshing it out. In Jackson, WY, on tour this summer, a friend gave me a copy
of a book on how to graphically express disruptive and innovative business
models. I incorporated that and other feedback into my current presentation.
I currently call this project the “Free Business School” and
I have the latest version of the presentation up on my blog.
Here are a couple of inspiring excerpts:
Occupy
Business School is a Do-It-Yourself method, a solution to the lack of jobs, and
the deadly lack of good jobs we can believe in. For those who say this is a
dangerous dalliance with capitalist methods, I would say, yes, maybe. But I
prefer to think of it as "revolutionizing the revolution." Rather
than engage in the mental fantasy of a revolution based on violence, let's face
the facts. That kind of revolution requires continued violence to protect the
revolution against counter-revolution. The grand passion of 1917 creates the
KGB and Stalin. A more enlightened, almost Zen method would be to forsake the
clingy, seizure of power, and create a different kind of life-sharing,
community-centric empowerment outside the Marxist/Imperialist debate.
Rather than think of money, capital, entrepreneurship as a wolf that needs to be tracked to its cave and beaten to death, the role of the social entrepreneur is to think of money as a fox. Our role is to lure the fox out of its hole. Money wants to be invested, and if we can over-come our many resentments against the world of money, we can give a place for investment capital in the changing of the world. In fact, this is a good time to re-examine our thoughts on the whole nature of money.
Rather than think of money, capital, entrepreneurship as a wolf that needs to be tracked to its cave and beaten to death, the role of the social entrepreneur is to think of money as a fox. Our role is to lure the fox out of its hole. Money wants to be invested, and if we can over-come our many resentments against the world of money, we can give a place for investment capital in the changing of the world. In fact, this is a good time to re-examine our thoughts on the whole nature of money.
You see, this is not a capitalistic cave-in, it’s a new
method of revolutionary social change . It’s an attempt to forge a radical
hybrid between consciousness, compassion, peace/truth activism, AND the so
called “enemy” that is the larger mechanics of finance. It’s in line with my
work at Vox Pop, the fair-trade coffeehouse, and my earlier work as a radical
publisher/entrepreneur. I am planning a tour of the NW and West Coast for late
Spring, 2012. I am bringing good people with me, and we would also be
interested in coming back to your town.
The full presentation is at http://slingshottothe.blogspot.com/2012/09/occupy-business-school-free-university.html
but it will probably be easier for you to just Google “sander hicks free
business school” (the blog post comes up fourth.)
As you will read in Slingshot,
11 years after 9/11, I remain committed to the truth about that event. The
bloody paw prints of the Bush/Cheney/Clinton/Obama State Department, CIA, US
and Israeli military/intelligence apparatus are all over the event and its
aftermath, for those with the moral courage to see the evidence. As we see this
past week with the Newtown, CT shootings, we are daily confronted by the
existence of evil, an evil so vast that it outstrips the secular, dry, rational
nature of post-modern America. We need a political and spiritual over-haul. So,
Merry Christmas, for real. Let’s use this time of celebration, solstice and
renewal to bring out the peace-loving Nature in us all, whether we express that
as Christ-Nature, or Buddha-Nature, or Truth itself. That’s what’s radical
about Slingshot, it’s about 9/11 Truth, and where it takes us, philosophically,
and actively.
Will I see you again? In Spring, 2013, I will be hitting the
road, but this time I won’t be alone. I will tour colleges and communities with
Lo Nathamundi of the Kaleidoscope Community Yoga project, and hip hop MC Steve “Crazy
Monk” Olson. It will be quite an event. Hope to see you there.
Happy Reading! Keep in Touch.
Sander Hicks
845 423 9094
sealove@sanderhicks.com
