Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Value of Generosity
Peter Buffett’s Good Life
Sustainability has become a crucial theme
ecologically and economically. But without sustainable values, little good can
be accomplished as a society or as individuals. Peter Buffett joins the values
discussion with Life is What You Make It
(Harmony Book). Despite its chicken soup for the soul title, Buffett has some
valuable ideas to impart from his own experience.
The son of America’s maverick billionaire Warren Buffett, Peter is a composer and performer, primarily of instrumental music and a contributor to movie soundtracks. A longtime Milwaukee resident before leaving for NYC, Buffett now runs a charity generously endowed by his dad, yet always maintained that the family was modest in financially supporting its children. According to his book, the Buffetts took seriously a verse from St. Luke: “From those to whom much has been given, much is expected.”
The son of America’s maverick billionaire Warren Buffett, Peter is a composer and performer, primarily of instrumental music and a contributor to movie soundtracks. A longtime Milwaukee resident before leaving for NYC, Buffett now runs a charity generously endowed by his dad, yet always maintained that the family was modest in financially supporting its children. According to his book, the Buffetts took seriously a verse from St. Luke: “From those to whom much has been given, much is expected.”
Money is only one means of giving back. Even
more important are building ties of friendship and community, mentoring and
“the mysterious gifts of talent and competence, capacity for empathy and hard
work.”
Peter
Buffett returns to Milwaukee for “Life is What You Make It: A Concert and
Conversation,” June 2 at the Pabst Theater. The event is a benefit for 88Nine
Radio Milwaukee. Buffett will also discuss his book at 7 p.m., June 3 at
Boswell Books.
88.9 FM Radio Milwaukee, The Shepard and MJS all reported on this event and every one of them has engaged in attacking the working class/poor with this father-son duo championing a high-priest of capital, Warren Buffet while blaming the victim, like another Bill Cosby. Adding insult to injury- during the greatest capitalist crisis unfolding.
88.9 radio Milwaukee show us the wizard behind the curtain. Equivalent to what Noam Chomsky defined as "The Mohawk Valley Formula". A SIGINT psywar excercise, turning their corporate sponsored transmitter against Milwaukee residents with revolutionary sounding slogans for counter-revolutionary purposes.
The latest propaganda campaign waged against Milwaukee residents is their neighborhood project. Here's one for the right-wingers:
"When Tyna Rule and her husband complained so much to their neighborhood mayor about a vacant home "that's like a smile with a tooth missing" (mine has three vacant schools- so we must need dentures) he used taxpayer money to subsidize their purchase because they didn't have any money. Then they turned around and rented the damn thing out for a profit for several years and have since turned it into a community based residential facility, which is basically transition living, no doubt staked deep into the heart of public money."
url: http://unifiedmilwaukee2.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/the-neighborhood-project-clarke-square-tyna-rule/
Here's one for the left-wingers: Last winter 88.9 broadcast a spokeswoman for WE energies, pretending to be a voice of the people, while how many poor people's heat and electricity were shut-off?
In the future I would love to examine in depth what role 88.9 plays with billionaire philanthropy besides the obvious in preserving the social-order of capitalism.
Front Page MJS article: http://dev.www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/95165799.html