Like Michaelanglo painting the Sistine Chapel I paint by numbers as grease and sweat drip down my nose and eyelashes, pinned to the roof of celestial heavens. Timothy K Fitzgerald
Type culture Social Organization struggle Mode of Production EPOCH OF ISOLATION Homo Erectus MAN WALKS (Unanticipated event) Homo Sapiens DAWN OF FAMILIAL ASSOCIATION The Herd Neanderthal Age of Dreams MIXED DIET (unanticipated event) Old Stone Age Cro-Magnon Man EPOCH OF COMMUNITY Stonehenge New Stone Age ORGANIZED USE OF TOOLS (Unanticipated event) Matriarchal - Anarchy - Superstition Cave Dwellings The Symbol Pictographs DAWN OF EXCHANGE Primitive - Survival - Bronze Age Herb Gathering Primitive Shelters Organized language DEVELOPMENT OF CALENDER (major event) Communism - Savagery - Tribalism Fish and Fire Bow and Arrow Clothing EPOCH OF ENTREPRENEUR - Barbarianism - Subsistence - Iron Age Pottery Agriculture Crafting Iron FIRST POPULATION EXPLOSION (unanticipated Event) Servitude - Slavery - Obedience Walled City Primitive Machine �World Trade� DAWN OF WAGE LABOUR Feudalism - Security - Steel Age Wind Power/Wind Mill Clock Division of Labor DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLD (Unanticipated Event) Capitalism - Nationalism - Size Scientific Method Factory Steam Engine EPOCH OF THE COLLABORATOR - Globalization - Speed - Electronic Age Bureaucratic Control Airplane Internet LANDING MAN ON MARS (Anticipated Event) Matriarchal II (?) - Atomic - Identity Interplanetary Travel World Government Biogenetic Engineering DAWN OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Syndicalism - The Soul - Knowledge Age Classless society Single Payer Wage Council of World Associations WITHERING AWAY OF STATE (Major event) Communism II (?) � Dictatorship / Proletariat - The �Super� Man Universal Tolerance Universal Faith Universal Rights EPOCH OF THE JEDI KNIGHT - Absolutism - Trust - Spiritual Age Property less Communal Monastic SCHEDULED SOLAR TRAVEL Servitude II (?) - God Head - Sharing Telepathic Communication Holistic Healing Transubstantiation CHART : THE HISTORICAL DIALECT ILLUSTRATED
Tim, enjoyed your outline of world prehistory, history and future history including economic and political organization and ideologies. Here's my own more cynical more status quo prediction of the future. Mine doesn't go so far into the future maybe 200 years. Billy
2000 Era of neoconservative Fucks Dominant USA power becomes arrogant evil and stupid. EC organization is run well and introduces "Euro" currency Nafta is a stupid organization Mexican Rural economy is ruined by cheap USA Nafta rice and beans USA election stolen in 2000 In 2000 or 2001 first legitamate election conservative PAN elected 2006 Mexican election stolen by PAN WTO and World Bank continue to fuck up the World Early 21st century Continued Globalization
America goes to Mars with some cooperation from G8 and China And Venazuela-led South american economic community. This accomplishes nothing and wastes less money than average american war. OPEC stops dealing in dollars and deals in Euros. Neoconservative fucks thrown out of office. Replaced by moderate democrats and moderate republicans who are globalistic pro-business and pursue Clinton type Imperialism and wars with hardly any american casualties. Oil prices high most of time but oil does not run out. Columbia the last holdout elects a left wing gov't making all of south america and mexico semi-socialist. Cuba is communist poor and has a higher life expectancy than USA. 7 or 8 countries aquire nuclear weapons this doesnt effect anything. Continued terrorism from moslem organizations including USA targets. No single event is as bad as 911. Russian economy improves. Old (western) part of EC does very well. USA economy declines substantially due to opec induced currency crisis. China and Japan (who have a economic organization that includes North and South Korea) (North Korea does not get to vote in the organization) China and Japan continue to support US economy by buying companies and US treasury bonds.
AH Jeeez this is kind of long winded for an outline and doesnt go far enough into the future so i'll quit now. Bill
East and West are not only a study of differences but a study of opposites, each seeking a different solution to the existential anxiety in the alienation of Man, thinkers both East and West eventually left with the dilemma, �And now, what IS?� We are, each one of us, every moment making our characters and shaping our destinies. The history of philosophy in India as well as Europe being one long illustration of the inability of the human mind to solve the mystery of the relation of God to the World. We are thus forced to conclude with Spangler's 'Decline of the West': There is not 'one' sculpture, 'one' painting, 'one' mathematic, 'One Physics, but many, each in its deepest essence different from the others. Spangler concludes, "I see in place of that empty figment of 'one' linear History, the Drama of a number of mighty cultures, coming straight from the mother region which it remains firmly bound through its whole life cycle (Spangler 17)
The Hindu of India finding in evil, a disharmony with truth, which he believes encompasses and contains the world, whereas the West dares to ask, as do persons from Johnny Cash to Pilate at Christ judgement, "What is Truth?" The Hindu insists on a spiritual and ethical outlook on life, believing the Day of Judgement is not in some remote future, but here and now with none able to escape it. The divine laws can't be evaded as they're not imposed from without but wrought in our nature (Radhakrishnan 53) Psychologist Rollo May speaking for the Westerner says it's their view the human being gets his experience in being a 'self' out of his relatedness to other persons. From the point of view of his ontological existentialism thus when he is alone he is afraid he will lose this experience of 'self.' I would conclude with Spangler, this self-knowledge and objectivity of all persons is largely dependent on cultural attributes. The West embracing supremacy and fulfillment from the overcoming of conflict, the East finding peace and tranquility from resignation and resolution.
Progress thus being objectively set by the drives of communal organization and society yet both faces of civilization, East and West, seem to agree with William James, "Those who are concerned with making the world healthier had best start with themselves (Quoted May 79) As both sides see man's existential dilemma in his suffering. In the West, May points out many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone. "They don�t find themselves at all," all man�s history in the West being an endeavor to shatter his loneliness. The Hindu way offering hope to the West, as Shan Kara is a Yogi leading to self-knowledge, something of a new frontier for the European mind bent on conquest and material acquisition. In Indian thinking, a system of thought, a point of view, recognizes the legitimacy and worth of competing systems rather than accepting an Aristotelian two�sided view. As a result the Indian thinks in terms of many degrees and aspects of truth � truth and value shifting as one takes a different point of view (POV)Organ 22-23)
Effort is made to reconcile differences within a cognitive whole in the East rather than push differences into sharp conflict as does the West, the implication being progress for the West arises from conflict and in the East in Resolution, May pointing out in the West, neurotic anxiety is the sign of an unresolved conflict within us, clinically speaking. This raises the historical graphical question as to the role of change in East and West. For Radhakrishnan the eternal is manifest in the temporal, the latter the pathway to the former, truth in the finite leading us to the infinite. Inductive rather than deductive reasoning. Truth taken by the Hindu as Man as the whole, all his activities having an overarching unity. Whereas for the West life is dissected and several. In the Indian, Dharma of virtue being the conformity with the truth of things as they are. In the West, Man having all but given up on the pursuit of virtue, with the embracement acquisition and conquest. Hence the acceptance of th4e world as a struggle to overcome and oppose would be a vice for the Hindu and progress for Western Minds (Radhakrishnan 56)
For Plato and Aristotle could not conceive of man living apart from the polis, but for the Hindu solitude of the forest were the only path to enlightenment. IRONICALLY BOTH SIDES IN AGREEMENT ENLIGHTENMENT SHOULD BE THE GOAL. The Hindu withdrew in order to meditate the West seeking encounter and dialogue for the same goal. Both are in line with the Oracle of Delphi uttering the goal To Know thy self. In keeping with the teachings of Socrates to the effect "the unexamined life is not worth living."
It being Descartes and Medieval thinking of the Scholastics that put an emphasis on the 'City of Man' separate from the 'City of God' The mind separate from the body, first proposed in concept by Saint Augustine. This created a schism or dichotomy for western thought down to the present. It could be concluded western philosophy is a natural philosophy, being chiefly concerned with the problems of the external world. While Indian Philosophy is more psychological, abiding closely with Christ�s adage 'The kingdom of God is within.' Perhaps having contributed to the confusion when he went on to add, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's." Shan Kara himself creating an aspect of Hindu philosophy to led to action that relieves Man of his suffering. These are vastly different views of Human understanding, the teaching of Plato being to know the good and retain it for itself (Organ 21) This is recognized by western thinkers like Paul Tillich who claims 'despair and anxiety can never we worked out until one confronts them in their stark and full reality. Rollo May concurring stating overcoming loneliness is only possible assume courageously access his aloneness to begin with. Thus it would seem modern psychology has come to embrace the Eastern conclusions. In Western culture our aim is to devise ways to can stand against our insecurity. The key in both being to find a center of strength to point the way toward achieving values (truths) which can be depended on May pointing out that puts the West's faith in change. Shan Kara in the unbending and eternal Atman.
According to Organ, Western Man�s activity is an opiate which deadens his self-awareness (the Greek word for solitude, idios, perverted into Idiot. Yet it is observed the irony that man still seeks the solitude in his activity while he flees from himself. Seldom suspecting it is himself he fears (Organ 41) "Indian philosophy being more focused in the synthetic group or underlying principles than the Western analytic method handed down from Descartes in discovering distinctions" (Radhakrishnan quote in Organ 20) To Shan Kara Truth is eternal and a truth once held continues to be held so far as it is possible. Seeking to preserve the insights of the past, progress is not conceived as destroying the old order to make way for the new. As Richard Lamoy says, "The Indian traditionalist has no faith in his power to change history because to him there is no 'history,' conformism being fundamental to the Indian mind with no wish to develop from tradition. The Atman and the Brahman are the higher consciousness and spirituality explained and spoken of by Christ and Socrates. The Indian typically asking if the western 'either / or' ought not to be discarded for the law of 'this-as-well-as-that.' The 'Mayan' to Shan Kara being the world of appearances and material substance of the world according to our bodily demands Shan Kara insisting to achieve Atman as Brahman you must look past surface appearances of the Mayan of earthly bounds to the 'deep structure' spoken of by anthropologist, Clifford Geetz. This 'Deep structure' or spiritual significance and enlightenment attributed by the spiritual masters as the product of knowledge and learning professed by Shan Kara. Shan Kara�s yogi being one of several ways or paths in Hindu religion to higher consciousness of Brahman. The man liberated from time (and history) being the highest ideal in Hindu, the Juarnmuskta. Thus it is that where development of western thought usually involves destruction of the old to make way for the new, development in Indian thought consists in retaining the insights of previous thought and act on these insights (Organ 243
Timothy K Fitzgerald teaches American History 21st century society American Government
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BOOK EXCERPT Nixon and Reagan
Philosophy Emerson and more
Campaign Advice on running for public office
1960s civil rights movement The battle may never be won
Tim's Thesis Papers 1
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Emi's Online Antiwar Anthology
Tim's Whoswho website ROCKWRITER
O'Nion changed his name to Onion, married a woman named Olive and changed their name to Allen.
Father's side Fitzgerald genealogy 1 Wales to the Nome Alaska gold rush
Mother's Side Early Hustons Later Hustons Scotland to Virginia and across the United States across centuries, through the Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone, through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, westward to Hustons today.
Houston Huston genealogy correspondence Page 1
Other history Page 1 McKay genealogy 2000 BC to present; Boadicca; miscellaneous history; American Revolutionary War perspectives
Clan Sinclair Origins, history, Knights Templar connections, battles; Prince Henry Sinclair's North America voyage, Glooscap
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SJSU Administration asked alumni to donate to its Heritage Fund. In return for a $5,000 gift the giver was to dedicate a bench to be given permanent placement on campus honoring some person(s) or event. I anted up the required fee to honor the memory of my parents just deceased. My mother Bernice C Huston met my father in the local Creamery on South First St during Prohibition when she worked there, attending San Jose State Teachers College (SJSU predecessor) My father Ralph G Fitzgerald, at the Creamery ordering tall strawberry milkshakes after the game Saturdays while attending Santa Clara University as a "day dog." At that time San Jose State Teachers College was predominantly women. Jesuit run Santa Clara University was almost all men. Need I say more?
My parents, who had attended school since first grade in Santa Clara Valley, were an item during the Depression that followed, as was their decade long courtship concluded in matrimony on the eve of World War II, my mother becoming one of the millions of war brides uniting service men being shipped overseas in the Good War. During that time, very much prior to agrarian Santa Clara Valley, Valley of the Heart's Delight becoming a world crossroads as Silicon Valley my mother counted as her personal friends Ray Blackmore (1960s Chief of Police of San Jose) heir to the fortune of the Bank of Italy (the now renown Bank of America) and Al Ruffo (first Mayor of San Jose after WW II) She taught primary grades throughout the Depression on the Peninsula.
Father designing a dehydrator as a College student project helped form one of the first co-ops amongst his father's friends owning the Valley's many prune ranches, after the War becoming Plant Manager of Ford Motor Company in Milpitas, and then Plant Engineer designing equipment to build the Polaris Missile at Lockheed Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale. My father mentored generations of Engineering students attending Santa Clara as the Valley industrialized. My mother was President here of the Golden Grads. The benches have since disappeared. Please put the benches back, or give us back our $5,000. I could use the money.
Tim K. Fitzgerald - Alumnus - Class of 1971, 1980, 1985, 1997
There's now a bench with a shiny new bronze placque "In memory of Bernice Huston Fitzgerald and Ralph G Fitzgerald Pioneers of Silicon Valley"
Spartan Daily story about alumni that donated money with the knowledge that benches and/or other items will be placed on campus in the place of it. Could you answer the following questions?
When did you make the donation to the school?
The decision to make the donation was right after I inherited a small estate from my parents who passed away in 1997 at age 90. I believe the actual
check was written in spring 1999.
Why did you decide to take part in this program?
I was a leading spokesperson, along with notables like Tommie Smith, Harry
Edwards, Richard Miner and Phil Whitten, outspoken advocates of Civil Rights on campus in the mid and late Sixties. I wanted to leave a permanent momento of our family, representing almost 100 years of history in San Jose.
When were your donations put to use?
I and other benefactors attended a ceremony in 2000 or 2001, There Al Ruffo, who knew me from service I performed with him negotiating with the Chancellor in the selection of a replacement of President Robert D. Clark, and I met for the first time in 30 years and had an extended conversation about my parents, who he knew intimately throughout their long lives.
Have you received any word from the university that your donation will be
given back?
I received a letter from Daniel Hoebeke, Development Officer with Office of University Advancement. "Please accept our apologies. Stories such as your parents give SJSU such a rich heritage. I am pleased to report the plaque will be installed shortly...." And it goes on to mention SJSU's proud heritage. There is no mention it will be replaced on the bench or be relocated outside the Theater Arts building with the expansive view of Tower Hall it once had.
If they can't put a bench back, what would be your preference for the money
usage?
I need the money. I plan to attend SJSU next fall for a MA (my third) in Philosophy this time in an effort to establish a new paradigm for the social sciences.
Anything else you'd like to add?
I'm writing my Memoirs, which recount my own personal views on the 1960s on campus, and my subsequent efforts at establishing a career in the following two decades in Silicon Valley. My agent, Barbara Bauer, of Matawan NJ, (Just over the river from Manhattan) tells me this may go to print as early as next year. I had already set down a historical, scholarly account of SJS under Dr.
Robert Clark at the request of History Faculty for my Thesis in my second MA at
SJSU a decade ago. History is important to me. I donated my 2,000 volume
private library for a reading room they want to install in Dudley Moorhead hall for Social Science Majors. The collection includes many books now out of print or no longer in circulation
A primary shift in education outside the family structure took place because our body of knowledge grew steadily from ancient times and division of labor increased inexorably, meaning that family structure grew less and less capable of teaching their children how to get along in world. With the Internet we experience another fundmental leap in our knowledge store, portending great changes in institutions charged with education.
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