Dear Reader,
In this issue I
offer some possible solutions to certain current problems, that I've been
working on and thinking about since Musea began in 1992. These are summaries
only. For more information contact me
and comments are welcome. Remember the first step to solving any problem is to
be open to new solutions!
Then in the 2nd
part, I list my recent music videos and summaries. LOTS of original music that I've been posting
on my YOUTUBE channel!!! Listen - It's
pretty good!
PROBLEMS /
SOLUTIONS
PROBLEM: Payments for Musicians, Writers, Filmmakers,
Artists, Photographers, etc.
SOLUTION: Pennies for Play anywhere online.
There is an easy
way to get content out of the hands of corporations and back into the hands of
the content makers.
Set up an online
pay for play service where clicking on a webpage pays a penny (or an amount set
up by the content owner such as 1- 5 cents), to access the work of the artist,
musician, writer, filmmaker, architect, dancer, photographer, journalist,
scientist, blogger, video maker, etc.
This simple step
eliminates the entire layer of corporate middlemen, allows any artist of any
kind to get compensation, and allows any artist or media to be free of any ads
or sponsors. Put artists ahead of streaming platforms, and things change for
the better.
PROBLEM: Power in an Emergency
SOLUTION: People
Power
Remember not every
solution needs massive amounts of money, big business, or high tech. Hardly any community can afford that. How about low tech solutions?
Where there are
people there is power. People can drive
power just as well as wind or water.
Where are the think tanks? Bikes 50 years ago could generate power for
bike lights - does anyone think all the brain power at MIT and in the world,
could not figure out a low tech way for people to generate their own people
power?
Don't forget low
tech solutions. They are cheaper and easier to set up - great for poorer
communities, and they don't involve the government.
Turn a water wheel
or windmill sideways and you have a revolving door or turnstile.
Hook a generator
to a revolving door of a skyscraper, or a turnstile at a stadium or the doors
at a concert hall or a relief center, and you have people power - even in a
blackout. Free, clean, renewable, on site, and even healthy, power.
PROBLEM: Cost of College
SOLUTION: Wiki - College
Here is a way to
get low-cost college to anyone in two words.
Wiki-College.
Here's how it
could work. Best teachers, video tape their courses, open up chat rooms to
discuss lessons, tape and post them as they accumulate, and have a final test
for a fee. Part of the fee goes to wiki
and the other part to the teacher. That
means teacher residuals from now on - like royalties from records, films,
books, etc.
Pass the
final? Then the student gets college
credit for the class.
This is sort of a
universal university online that contains teachers and students with no
colleges in the way! Is it every bit as
good as the rich can afford? No. But
will it do for anyone who wants college but can't afford it. Yes. Start with a 2 year, junior college,
curriculum.
PROBLEM: Worker's rights
SOLUTION: National
Workers Union like AARP
Consider a
National Union for workers, based on the AARP model that supports seniors with
37 million members. The workers
"AARP" would advocate for workers instead of seniors.
Getting a union
started for a specific industry, or keeping it going once it is started is
tough. It takes courage to join, and there is always the chance of losing your
job. That's really hard on those with families to support.
Workers, all
workers, it's time to act together, in a way that protects all.
No matter what
your job is, all workers in the country, could join by sending in $1 or
donation, for annual dues. For that money the workers union would: set up a
group of lobbyists to lobby congress for worker's rights in all industries,
report updates on progress through the net, and a monthly magazine, and support
workers in a bind. This bypasses many of the struggles that most unions have to
face now.
PROBLEM: Poverty
SOLUTION: CBAs
CBA's or community
bank accounts is a way to end poverty in the US without spending a penny.
Take 10 Billion
per state - just a sixth of the money spent on the last war - put it in local
state banks, or credit unions, and give the monthly INTEREST that it generates
to that state’s poorest cities or counties, one at a time. Then when done,
repeat the process, over and over from then on until poverty is eliminated
throughout the state.
The capital is
never spent, the interest money keeps coming in every month, FOREVER, and the
bank has money that by the CBA rules, it can only loan to those communities
too. This empowers the poorest communities to solve their problems in the way
best suited for them, with little government interference or red tape. These
people, know how to best support their community and all in it, with the money.
There will also be some reasonable rules, checks and balances, on how the money
can be spent, receipts saved, etc. This
is economic development that builds up, not trickles down.
PROBLEM: The Arts
Controlled by Too Few and in a slump.
SOLUTION: The Arts and Media revolution.
The arts are the
soul and lifeblood of a nation. It is its culture. The culture of a country is
not up for bid. The people, and the government of the people, should oppose any
system that allows only corporate arts to be promoted, distributed, and
reviewed; while all independent arts are marginalized, censored, or kept from
reasonable coverage.
The arts
revolution would bring these changes:
1. Fair guaranteed
reviews to all (see separate entry.)
2. Fair no-ad
media coverage based on quality not promotion budgets.
3. Pennies for
play - the content creator would get a penny for every click on say a chapter
of his novel, a song, a painting, a blog post. (see separate entry.)
4. The break up of
those few companies that make the art, distribute the art, promote the art, and
then review the art. They can do any one
of those, but not all four! That is too much control in too few hands. The arts of the world cannot be owned by a
few conglomerates.
5. City art
centers, that are open to promoting all local and visiting artists of any kind.
PROBLEM: How did
life began.
Solution: My
Guess: Suggestion that life is the only chemical system that survived the daily
UV light. The rest was inert and
unchanged or destroyed over time.
PROBLEM: How to revitalize downtown Dallas.
SOLUTION: Main Street becomes a Pedestrian Walkway.
Make Main Street a
no-car, pedestrian walkway from Downtown through Deep Ellum to Fair Park. Then
take it the other way, across the Trinity River on a pedestrian bridge to one
of the main roads in Oak Cliff. Later
you can keep it going as far as you like in both directions, and/or you could
add other streets in downtown Dallas.
Be sure to add these features that would make
it more fun for all: police walking on
patrol or on bikes, some lunch wagons here and there, and electric carts to
move people up and down the Pedestrian Walkway.
With this one step
you've got a new Dallas, and a one of a kind US downtown. You've also got a
world attraction for tourists. This
would be the Dallas version of San Antonio's "River-walk"; but with a
walkway not a waterway. It would tie in all the neighborhoods mentioned,
revitalize all of them, and make a reason for people to go, shop, explore,
celebrate, and live, Downtown Dallas/Deep Ellum/Fair Park/Oak Cliff.
PROBLEM: Perpetual
War
SOLUTION: Most
pose this problem as having only 2 possible solutions - bravely soldier on, or
cowardly withdraw. But there are many
many ways for the most powerful nation on Earth, to resolve conflicts without
either of those poor solutions. I've suggested 8 alternatives to start with.
Remember the
enemies of this country know that the quickest way to drain the strength of
this country is to keep it in perpetual war. That saps our resources, standing
in the world, best and brightest young people, and our spirit. It also allows
the government to silence many of its critics - which it often does in even
small wars.
PROBLEM: Housing Shortage
SOLUTION: Small Homes
Three points to
get affordable new houses to most people: singles, seniors, couples just
starting out, etc.
1. Small houses
that cost 30-50K at most. Architects
love to design these small homes, and have many great ideas.
2. Don’t lump them into ghettos. Better to make a city law that only 5-10
small houses can be built in any neighborhood in the city.
3. Prefabrication
with 10-30 models to choose from to avoid the cookie cutter look!
Now about the
hardcore homeless. Remember if every church in the US, adopted 1 homeless
person, the problem would be solved, with thousands of churches left over!
PROBLEM: Education Reforms.
SOLUTION: See this expanded essay on all aspects of
learning. There is a lot there!
https://musea.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/essay-on-education-reprint-from-musea/
PROBLEM: The cars
all look alike!
SOLUTION: Cover electric cars with the frames of
classic cars from the past. Then add all the modern amenities. Make limited editions of classic cars from
the 50s, 60s, etc.
PROBLEM:
Newscasters interviewing hostile subjects.
SOLUTION: "
Enough Rope" Technique of Interviewing.
The interviewer agrees too much with what the subject says! "Don't you think your behavior was god
like and perfect?" Then instead of
his pat answers to tough questions against his behavior, the subject has to
backtrack on the suggested too extreme position!
PROBLEM: Thinking Creatively
SOLUTION: See Musea's essay titled
"Cogitology" where Gregory K. H. Bryant, and I assembled many key
points to help you think more clearly and creatively.
PROBLEM: Mass Marketing of Paintings/Drawings like
books, films, and records.
SOLUTION: The new printing technology now allows exact
replicas. These exact replicas can
either be sold in multiple runs, like books, videos, and records, with the
artist getting a fair royalty; or they can be used to tour the country, while
the originals stay safe at home. That
would also allow the world to see copies of all the works now in storage in the
worlds major museums!
PROBLEM: Reviews for all musicians, painters, writers,
filmmakers, etc.
SOLUTION: Review
Website. Key to any artists career is fair reviews. This online site would
guarantee a fair, permanently posted online, review for any musician, painter,
writer, filmmaker, etc. for a processing fee. No ads. Judged on merit not promotion.
PROBLEM: New
Paradigm of Corporations versus People, to control the government.
SOLUTION: This is a tough one when lobbyists override
the concerns of people and those in government depend on corporate money to
stay in positions of power. But here is the problem with that system: Day after day it's becoming more and more
clear. Both corporations and people are
fighting for control of the government. Corporations usually win. We now have a
sort of Corporate Socialism where the government is controlled by corporate
lobbyists.
Look at this list
of problems facing the nation. These
major problems all have something in common.
PEOPLE vs. CORPORATIONS.
1. NET
NEUTRALITY 2. OPIOID CRISIS 3. BANKING CRISIS 4. MASS SHOOTINGS. 5. MILITARY SPENDING 6. TAX REFORM
7. DATA MINING and ADS 8. HEALTH
COSTS 9. CLIMATE CRISIS 10. PRISONS
11. MEDIA 12. TOBACCO 13.
EDUCATION 14. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/
PUBLIC DOMAIN.
PROBLEM: How many separate 'brain' systems do we have?
COMMENT: My best guess is that we have at least these
four and I'm still counting: conscious
mind, subconscious mind, enteric nervous system, and sex drive. My interest and
study is in the subconscious mind. There
are so many mysteries still there. Stay
tuned!
PROBLEM: There
seems to be speed limits to time - from 0 velocity to just under the speed of
light. Particles that are massless, and
go the speed of light, are outside time!
But why???
COMMENT: Took me years just to come up with the
question! That's as far as I got.
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DEMOS! (Here are the latest ones, plus
what they are about!) Take a listen!
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Don't forget, I
have 15 albums worth of OTHER songs all over the net: on YouTube, Spotify,
I-tunes, CDBaby, Hunkasaurus.com, etc. etc. I Really Do Love You!
Title says it all.
I Saw You
Love at first
site!
Land of Love
Where lovers love
to go.
Skipping Down the
Alley Way
Sometimes dreams
come true!
Slow Down!
Classic rock and
roll tune!
Secret Admirer
???
Just a Love Song
Too little time to
be together.
Cinderella Johnson
Teased woman
lament
Knots &
Strings
The connected
world we live in.
Tell the World
They are now a
couple!
Clockwork People
Protest song
against cruel people.
Farm
Autobiographical
song.
Wear a Flower
Will she or won't
she?
Lullaby
Song to help lull
to sleep.
Some Day Soon I'll
Be Gone
When you've had
enough and it's time to leave.
America
Two versions,
guitar and guitar + voice.
Waterfall
Guitar
Instrumental.
World Sing Along
Song
First online world
sing along song.
Two Fools
Country song about
loving too much or too little.
Traveler
Folk song for the
wayward.
Catch Me (If You
Can)
Jazz Piece -
short!
The Little Slavic
Dancer's Waltz
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Baker's Moon
13th Moon of the
Year - celebration!
The Happy Flea
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Leaves
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Worker Ants,
Worker Bees
Keyboard
bagatelle:
Little Sparrow
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Sprite
Keyboard bagatelle
Circus
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Another Lonely
Night
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Mother Goose
Keyboard
bagatelle.
Pioneering Women
Guitar
Instrumental (double tracked)
Won't Work on Me!
She can't take him
away from her!
Triangle
3 Problem protest
song - each makes the other worse!
Cold
Lost in the Cold!
Song as a short drama piece.
My Mistake
What happens when
some break up!
Dark
Sci-fi story in
song
River Long
Guitar
Instrumental with a song at the end.
Call Someone
We all need help
from others sometimes.
Pre Coffee Cranky
(homage to Monk's piano style)
Piano piece for
pre coffee time. #1893
F#m
Short guitar
instrumental - dark and passionate.
Hay Ride for Two
Simple short
guitar instrumental - lots of guitar picking.
Rock and Roll
Vapors (and Big Beat Fever)
Got a good beat
and you can dance to it! -
Wayfaring Stranger
(traditional lyrics)
My original music
to this traditional folk/Gospel song lyrics.
You Better Find
Someone to Break Your Heart
Love can hurt too!
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Musea #206, The
Problem / Solution issue.
(c) 2019 Tom
Hendricks
tom-hendricks@att.net
Main website
TomHendricks.US
cover photo:
photographer unknown.