Virginia Tech Massacre: Business Leaders Speak of Global Transformation and Political Transformation

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Virginia Tech Massacre: Leaders Speak of Global Transformation and
Political Transformation



Jim Peake Host, CEO of My Success Gateway, LLC

Dr. Joe Rubino, Panelist and CEO of The Center for Personal
Reinvention & The Self Esteem Book

Blair Singer, Panelist and CEO of Sales Dogs and Sales Partners
Worldwide



This pod-cast is all about global transformation and political
transformation. (I thank Dr. Joe Rubino for taking a leadership role
and defining it). This call was initiated because of the massacre at
Virginia Tech in 2007. Our goal is to provide what we feel might be
intelligent comments on some of the current events that are happening
in our world, if transformation occurs then our work is making a
difference.



Blair Singer is an author of two books that are part of the RichDad
Series. He has been in the personal development space in business
since 1982. Joe Rubino has been in personal since 1992 supporting
people's self esteem and supporting their business.



Joe said that the massacre at Virginia Tech is a classic case of
someone's self esteem has been damaged early on. He has been
ragging. We have all had something happen to us at an early age to
generate or not generate rich relationships and achieve abundance.
Someone did or said something to determine that we did not measure
up. The gunman had people say at an early age said or do things that
caused him to feel inferior. What this did was cause him to start out
with an emotional response of intense anger. i.e. "Go back to
China." These things reinforced his rage which was his predominant
emotion. He had not ability to refocus or interpret his emotion; he
did not have the skills. He was a basic time bomb waiting to explode.



We saw in Columbine similar circumstances by people who feel
disenfranchised. People become very sad, pity or in some cases anger.



Blair: The thing that amazes Blair that everytime that these things
happen the focus of the media focus of the hysteria of the nation is
always mis-focused. This is what bugs Blair the most. There is always
going to be someone who blows it. You can't prevent it. i.e. What did
the Virginia Tech University do to prevent it? What happened in those
2 hours? What about the screening process? The psychology that is
alarming is this siege mentality that we go into and put walls up on
borders, increase security etc. "There were signs that Cho was this
before" and "security needs to be tighter." We are going to try to
put 2,500 band aides on the wound, as Joe Rubino said he did not have
the skills.



We continue in our schools to focus on an agrarian age reading,
writing, arithmetic curriculum, be good, do as you are told, sit
still, disciplined - environment that was developed by Bismark in
Prussia that we are still perpetuating and we wonder why this is all
happening. We see it with weapons of mass destruction, going after Al
Qaeda, going after Virginia Tech, going after Cho, we are going after
this stuff, the truth of it is it is endemic to a way of life that we
perpetuate through an education system through an education system did
not have the skills did not have the emotions. Emotion comes up in a
corporate environment we don't want to touch it. To teach kids and
adults how to communicate before they blow up. As society gets more
complex the pressure is going to go up not going to go down. The
Taliban wants it back to the stone age. Cho is one situation.
Columbine is another situation.



Why the education system today is antiquated? The lag time in
education today is a 50 year lag time. John Taylor Gatto wrote a book
called "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory
Schooling," who Ronald Reagan put up as teacher of the year did an
expose of the horrors of the United States education system. A system
that our founding fathers went around the world and they found them in
Germany and Prussia, they found the best engineers. The purpose of
that system was to prepare them as soldiers. Stand up, salute the
flag and pledge allegiance to their countries. At that moment of time
it was probably appropriate. Bush administration starts a policy
called "No Child Left Behind," what happens? Within 2-3 years our
drop-out rate goes up to 30%. We, being so results oriented, driving
for an end result lose sight of the fact that a result is a function
of behaviors which is a function of conditioning. Blair and Joe spend
their lives reprogramming the conditioning people's conditioning that
is causing the result(s).



Joe: We have all of this rage going on out of peoples' desire to
dominate and control everyone else. You win in this world by
dominating. But we have 1,000's of years of proof that it doesn't
work. But we continue to do these things, but this is the paradigm.
Like in the cold war with nuclear warheads. People are missing what
is going on in the world. We have people out of control in so many
countries. All of these people are disenfranchised and they are
reacting with the only way that they know how. What we are seeing
with Cho, with Columbine, with the Taliban, with Al Qaeda it is all
versions of the same thing. It is the same, you can't dominate me
I'll show you type of thing, I'm going to dominate you first. Then we
wonder why we have these "wars" that are costing us Billions and
Trillions of dollars without result, where we are missing the point?
There are people in the world are on a rail to be right.



Where you are strong to begin with, but you come from a perspective of
non domination, a perspective of concern, cooperation and partnership
and in the school process we don't teach kid how to communicate
effectively, how to respond effectively, how to manage finances. If
you aren't able figure out the money game it can become another cause
of stress.



If you institute force when you have to, and that force will put
people in line as long as you have an equal force or even a disruptive
force. And the force no longer works. There is no end to this
escalating violence. We don't have a legitimate authority or respect
that we are welcome. There is no end to escalating violence.



The best hope is, with a focus on personal development. There has got
be a focus on personal development. The future of personal
development emotional training, communication training, team building,
controlling the little voice in your brain has to become as important
as early curriculum with reading and writing early on in kids.



The truth of it is much easier to fight. Blair's grandmother said
stupid people fight and stupid people swear. Knowing how to do this.
There is always going to be there. The damage that they create is
less frequent would be less if society cooperated. Religions and
politics and being a martyr, there is nothing else in the chamber in
the brain.



<personal note: as I was paraphrasing and writing some of the notes on
this call in this document, it was so engaging for me that I stopped
and listened to the second half all the way through. I hope you find
it as engaging and enlightening as well. - Jim Peake>



85% of the world is working and the media is the showcase for
terrorists. For example, if you streak across the campus you will
make the news. Blair talked about the fact that he himself was drawn
to the picture of Cho on CNN and there was a level of curiosity thatf
was so high that he clicked onto it. We can't put a gag on the media
because the freedom of speech. There is so much that is good in the
world. If we do it, all we are doing is supporting the behavior. How
do you stop that?



Joe: We are driven to gossip. We are all looking for an emotional fix
to satisfy us, if we all hate it why do we read the newspaper with
murders and corporate deception? We have created a culture that is
addicted to the negative and the drama of bad stuff going on in the
world. We love to take out leaders, we take out people who do things
wrong and it goes back to self esteem because we are constantly
looking to go out and find people who are more messed up than we are.
We look for and scan for situations to give us this "fix," feel the
fear, the anger against whoever. Maybe anger against the teacher,
when the students laughed at Cho and said "go back to China," where
was the teacher in the teachable moment to make him whole and support
the class and discuss different cultures? That sort of thing is not
in the culture where we look at how it is out of control. How did the
paradigm get out of control? The paradigm is out of control, it is
all about glorifying suffering, let's glorify annihilation and who is
messed up and let's talk about it. All of the good stuff in the world
goes unnoticed. So that if you want to create headlines you have to
do something pretty horrific.



Blair talks about Bucky Fuller. He was a gentle genius of our time
with more patents in the patent office than any one else in our time.
He was the inventor of the geodesic dome. The warped Blair thought is
that if we have the desire of the all the blood and gore is that no-
one will want to look at it any more. He brings in a shooting games
example of his own kids and guns.



We talk about Imus and the fact that he has to be honest, but he is
who he is, he got paid to be a shock jock. The three of us on the
line, Jim, Blair and Joe if we step out of line our constituency will
let us know and if we persist we will see the repercussions
emotionally and financially. Unfortunately, some people are above the
law and the normal behavior of others, superstars i.e. Kobie Bryant.
At some point we have to take a look at who is above the law? At some
point you have to take a look at who is above the law and who is not?
And it comes down to accountability, Imus should loose his job. He is
smarter than that. He made a bone head move. It is plain arrogance.
There is a certain disconnect of the people we hold in esteem and the
reality of the 99.99% of the rest of us.



This why in the United States we have the lowest voter turnout of any
democracy in the world, any in the world, yet we go around telling
others that they should go out and have a democracy. The reason we
have a low turnout is because it doesn't make any difference. Why
should I? The guy that I voted for (who is supporting our United
States Constitution or the Declaration of Independence) they all lie
they all cheat. The people we put in place to law are the ones who
are breaking the law. Why should I vote for that clown?



Joe: We have a political system that breeds more of that. We have to
know how to play the game. Imus walked a line in his job because he
said irresponsible stuff. When you live on the edge you fall over the
edge. We love gossip and we love dirt. We love listening to all of
the dirt in the world.



We cover some other current events including AT&T's CEO and wrap up
with being a positive force in the world. We talk about developing
new leaders which will be the topic on the next call. Bottom line
this write up does not do the audio justice. Listen to the whole
audio and hopefully you will get more out of it.

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