[GPSCC-chat] Artist needed: 4 puppets?

[spencerg]

Hello, All:


       Do any of you know someone who would be willing and able to 
create a drawing of 4 puppets, with the first controlling the second 
controlling the third controlling the fourth controlling the first, 
crudely similar to the famous staircase drawings by Escher 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending_and_Descending;  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher)?


       The image in my mind's eye has the government (puppet 1) 
controlling business (puppet 2), which controls the media (puppet 3), 
which controls the public (puppet 4), which controls government.  There 
are actually 16 different possible connections among these 4 sets of 
actors, and all are active to various degrees.  These four are, I think, 
the most obvious and least controversial.  Moreover, the drawing would 
get too messy and its appeal less universal if we added more than these 
four (or a different four).  There is certainly a strong link with 
business directly controlling the government through our bribery system 
of campaign finance.  However, that link would not work if a critical 
mass of the public stopped patronizing commercial media, who gets 75 
percent (print media) to  100 percent (broadcasting) of their funding 
from advertising or web sites sponsored by big business and instead 
found and supported through small donations research into how businesses 
make billions from millions in campaign "contributions".


       I have several uses for this art.  The most immediate use is the 
May 22 Food for Thought event, for which Tian just distributed a draft 
flier.  I'm the primary featured speaker.  I plan to discuss mention 
these issues whether or not I have such a drawing.  Second, I want to 
write an article describing the phenomena it illustrates.  I think there 
is a good chance of getting it published in a respected journal with a 
reasonable distribution.  If that fails, we can put it on the web.  In 
either case, I believe it will ultimately gain widespread notoriety.  By 
giving away rights to copies, I believe there is a reasonable chance 
that the artist will be able to sell the original in a few years for a 
decent price.  In addition, I think it will provide a platform for 
integrating multiple criticisms of our current 
political-media-military-industrial complex.


       Thanks,
       Spencer

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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Operating Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
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