[Fmpro] cooperation vs competition

[Sunblossom Records]

Hi Rick,

Wow! Sounds like I'm spending my days in silk pajamas eating Richard 
Donnelly Chocolates (while reading my books on quantum physics under down 
comforters and 500 thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets!)

The truth is I live on an Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. The 
elders here recount a history of tyranny and suffering at the hands of the 
United States government. As recently as 1950 there have been boarding 
schools that were in the practice of Christianizing and forcing the 
assimilation of Indian children, beating them for speaking their native 
language or washing their mouths out with soap. Even today, in 21st century 
America, we witness the abject poverty of which you speak.

Most of my life was spent in the southeastern region of the United States 
where African Americans were enslaved and where white supremacists were 
taking part in lynchings and other violent atrocities. Billie Holiday's 
"Strange Fruit"  tells the story better than I ever could.

Had I the luxury to recreate my personal journey, maybe I  would have 
experienced the life of relative safety and affluence that you imagine for 
me.

Every day we read stories about the battles we have in our industry over 
just about everything that has to do with power or money. I'm merely 
offering an alternative path to a seemingly impossible situation. Our 
industry has enormous influence over our society at large. We have an 
opportunity to choose unity over separateness, love over fear, possibility 
over limitation, cooperation over competition and abundance over lack.

We can make new choices. And collectively these powerful choices can 
transform human experience.

Kiki




> I would speculate that you have never experienced the kind of abject 
> poverty nor suffered under the kind of despotism and tyranny that has 
> characterized daily reality for most human beings throughout history, and 
> many still today.  Because of the sacrifice and hard work of many who have 
> come before you, you have the opportunity, the luxury, to enjoy your 
> existence your way, in relative safety and affluence.  That's great.  But 
> don't forget that people died on battlefields and sacraficed in countless 
> other ways to make that possibe.  And people in some areas of the world 
> today are enduring, trying to survive, extremely harsh circumstances. 
> Maybe they need to read one of your books?  Just a thought.
>
> Rick
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