and sometimes
you know you know what you know and sometimes you don't know what you know
and sometimes you know what you don't know and
any so what do you know about the number 12 William Gladstone
as a new novel out it's called the power
up 12 12 the book 12 the book
dot com is the website and Bill welcome to the program
great to be back on your show tombola Qatar the book if those who have a video
cam
yet our well we're excited about this new book
any it really ideal for your audience because I share our concern is that you
air on your shower and i'm looking novelist bond it's got great characters
and a lot of humor in it
it really does address some of these big with me are already headed for do
the mom and themselves could not say we were headed for do
the way our politicians behave I think we might be
but we have the opportunity according to indigenous properties not just on the
mind
but to actually create a world that works for everyone
that is better in what we experience the day but there's gotta be a lot of change
and I agree with what you just said your last caller things may get a lot worse
before they get better
but we are resilient and we have the resources she really make a difference
and what the power grows really about
is in a fictional way how people
themselves just by their own loss in activities in by connecting
and using the technology we have today can raise the issues that really matter
and survive past the existing economic and political systems
to create a world that really works for also known we are talking to William
Gladstone
his book power 1212 12 the book
dot com 12 the book yeah I dot com is the website because the book is
available anywhere and everywhere and if you can't get in your local bookstore
ask for a
or your local library are bill what
what is the away you said there are
there are things that we can do and that you talk about in your novel
I to make this a better world to make it as
assist in a world very first thing is just education and awareness we need I
mean
you read about this isn't your books in creating education system the trains
people
to be workers incorporation and the corporations exist for the benefit
a few thousand at many tens of thousands other
families and not the world and the whole and we just need to bring
awareness to people but they have with in there
all unique guess the ability to be creative
into by work that is meaningful and that is not
just make it work just satisfy the needs of these large corporations
which is this really for one purpose only which is to make money in satisfy
the owners are those corporations with larger and larger crop
yeah there are some exceptions the world is starting to change and
the changes are coming not because some
you but nevermind dictator a major corporation decided
it was good for the corporation to star paying attention
to the needs of the environment and the need to the social community
but because the social community itself start putting pressure
even with their pocketbook by choosing to frequent
companies that did take community into account rather than companies that did
so we the people really do have a lot of power much more than we've ever had
before
I know it may seem that we don't as well become constipated
hands if you were your people we really can make a difference I've gotta lie
with the fall of the Berlin Wall
for decades it seemed impossible but then when it finally happened
it happen almost effortlessly it seemed in very quickly
and hyper similar kinds of changes can happen
even today yeah i i don't disagree in fact I think that these two kinda
transitions happened really fast like a
i've had for a long time saying we should amend the Constitution to say
that corporations are people and money is not speech in a
and and people say ahs been twenty nine thousand times to amend the Constitution
summit some got social members have taken seventy years
and I say and the Wonder reduce the voting age down 18
was introduced in March in was ratified in August to the same year I mean it's
it it is
when when when the public is pregnant with change when the when the times are
pregnant with change
that birth I mean childbirth is a pretty instantaneous process compared to nine
months a bright just Asian
and I'm going to be quite their time and
the whole quite a my mom both the 12 in the power well
is really capture indigenous wisdom and present it in a comparable way
for the modern person in the power problem with a lot of fun george bush
actually if not ima you know I i'm never agree with his politics
but is not a terrible human being we've done some terrible things a lot of the
problems
that we have had to endure is not because
people are evil but because they are following paradigm
which really out with their purpose the whole economic system
capitalism is wonderful but it was never intended
to create multi-billionaire no one really needs
billions of dollars the little house on lot we need to start thinking
and you for that matter no one intended our government
have budgets a trillion dollars and you know create
always special interest which are incomplete conflict with the real
purpose the governor
so we got a lot of problems to solve and it may just be the way to solve them
it by sidestepping and not trying to sound directly
but creating something new and I
it and whether the issue non-governmental organizations
this grassroots movements I don't know I'm not a political analyst
I'm not even a sociologist but I know that their is
something going on and it's not just me its
isolated indigenous people I Bay have been predicting this large change
for centuries and I think we're a little %uh on the Mayan calendar
from a mathematical point of view was the most awkward counter
that his ever been created and we're finding out more more detail about how
hot counter
is related to specific physical phenomena including the
the lot on the rotation were climbing which up to 26,000 year cycle
identical to the Mayan calendar period just ended so there's a lot of mystery
going on right now
but there's also %uh a lot a whole now yeah I
it's it's we r where on the knife 8 edge you don't really in some ways
um at last hours .org we've got a video up about
you know how we could be looking at extinction and then on the other hand
you know they're a we literally with if the entire world adopted just a very
modest carbon tax
we could be the entire planet could be carbon-free within a decade or two
I mean within a generation this when the promises that might not have a car cause
I have this
media room a nada nothing the other Maddie actually exist but I create this
character are you will be alerted the ground
like keeper the code for the alarm not and he's not doing what he thinks is
business and do that olive you will not issue in charm
fast emon everything out but the reality is
you can change destruction care berkeley
I other off-the-field I'm up up
bill work work work work your fate now where we're at a time
on but bill Gladstone William Gladstone 12 the book 12 the book dot com
it's about the book is the power 12 thank you God thank you