On the Road to America

AI and Investing in Tomorrow: America: Myth, Metaphor and Love?

My Comment:?I am constantly inspired by the contradiction of Saul, a common soldier on the road to Damascus, who was felled "off of his high horse" - by inspiration- inspiration for his unmatched eloquence.?

I too fell off of my high horse - Watcha- as a young man and nearly died. Again, I nearly died with the Marines - in the High Sierras. There, in the Mojave Desert and at the World Trade Center, I, like Saul's, my survival inspired me to be a New Creation.?

Update

Many colleges are failing now, and many teachers will be laid off in September as subsidies end.

In the broader marketplace, AI has already "disrupted" the jobs of some 250,000 "HiTech" workers.?

It is May and our graduating classes will be reminded by Robert Frost’s?The Road Not Taken?and by Dickens’?A Tale of Two Cities of the relevance?of our time to other times in human history:?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we …

The challenge for teachers, politicians, consulting firms and would-be leaders, is to be relevant.?

Occupational Shifts

McKinsey & Co: By 2030, over one million occupational shifts are projected, with a third linked directly to AI. Jobs relying on knowledge or content creation will be up to 30 times more affected than physical work.

At our 2024 Future of New York Summit, we convened regional leaders to tackle an important question: How Generative AI will impact the region, and specifically its disruption of NY’s labor market. Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, John Legend, Laura Rosenbury, David Rubenstein, Darren Walker and Nicholas Thompson discussed how Gen AI will shape New York's economy, workforce, and society

Peter and Warren Buffett have already resolved this issue and they were not invited to this "Summit."

St. Paul to the Corinthians: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Dénouement of A Little History

There is both a superficial, cartoonish understanding:

of the Bezos family:

and of Operation Peter Pan:

one that Wall Street, American society and our enemies seek to divert us from:?

and a substantive one:

As George Keegan expressed of leadership in defining the Cold War:

We have been handicapped . . . by a popular attachment to the concept of a basic difference between peace and war, by a tendency to view war as a sort of sporting context outside of all political context . . . and by a reluctance to recognise the realities of international relations, the perpetual rhythm of [struggle, in and out of war].6

A Little History?

Operation Peter Pan, according to?Wikipedia:?

Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution

Following the?Cuban Revolution of 1959, but more importantly after the regime's October 1960 move to nationalize industries, the first wave of Cuban immigrants left for the United States. These upper and upper-middle classes were not tied to Batista's government (those left in the days following the overthrow of Batista) but had economic livelihoods incompatible with the regime's goals. Most, if not all, thought it to be a temporary departure, imagining a life where they would return to Cuba once another regime came to power in the country. An additional wave of Cubans left upon the failure of the?Bay of Pigs Invasion?and the subsequent announcement by Castro that he was Marxist-Leninist. This proclamation of a new order acted as a catalyst to leave to those who had adopted a "wait and see" attitude to developments. This third wave of Cuban immigrants was predominantly middle class. This wave of Cuban immigrants included middle merchants and management, landlords, mid-level professionals and a significant representation of skilled?unionized?workers. The constituents of these different classes looked on warily at the closures of private universities and schools in 1961 since these actions played into their fears that the government would take over the education of their children.[3]

Parental fears

By 1960, the Cuban government began reforming education strategies. School children were taught military drills, how to bear arms, and anti-American songs.[4] By 1961, the Cuban government would seize control of all private schools.

As a result of the new social order, rumors began to swirl, originating from both inside the United States and other anti-Castro media. Various outlets, including the?Miami Herald?and?Time Magazine, reported that Castro and his followers intended to terminate parental rights, assume custody of all Cuban children, prohibit religion and indoctrinate them into communism.[1] The CIA-backed?Radio Swan?station asserted that the Cuban government was planning to remove children from their parents and send them to the?Soviet Union. These claims lacked evidence, but denials fell on deaf ears.[1]

These rumors, combined with the pre-existing worry instilled by the?Spanish Civil War (during which?children were evacuated to other countries), made the?patria potestad hoax impossible to contain. It had already reached the Catholic church and the general public, and opponents of the now openly communist regime who did not migrate during the first wave of the exodus began sending their children off to perceived safety. [citation needed]

Organizing an exodus

Having been involved in a similar program that gained young Hungarians entrance to the US following Soviet repression of the 1956 uprising,[5]

My Comment: Andrew Grove

Wikipedia: Andrew Stephen Grove?(born?András István Gróf; 2 September 1936?– 21 March 2016) was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of?Intel Corporation.?He escaped from?Communist-controlled Hungary?at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education. He was the third employee and eventual third CEO of?Intel, transforming the company into the world's largest?semiconductor?company.[3]

Born: András István Gróf[1]

September 2, 1936

Budapest,?Hungary

Update

Wikipedia Continued:

Father Bryan O. Walsh of the?Catholic Welfare Bureau, with the help of the U.S. government, developed the Cuban Children's Program in late 1960. Key players included?Tracy Voorhees,?Eisenhower Administration, James Baker, Father Walsh, and in Cuba?Polita Grau?and her brother Ramón Grau Alsina.

An October meeting brought the influx of Cuban refugees in Miami to the attention of the White House, with particular focus on what appeared to be a high number of unaccompanied minors wandering the city. Shortly after,?Tracy Voorhees?– a veteran U.S. government official who was serving as the president's Personal Representative for Cuban Refugees – reported that, though the issue was not large in number, it had still been highly publicized and, therefore, the administration needed to be seen taking action.[5]

Up until that time, the Catholic church had been the largest provider of aid. But, towards the end of 1960, President Eisenhower approved $1 million to help, with specific funds allocated to the creation of a Cuban emergency refugee center. To further their efforts, and ultimately further the smear campaign of Castro's Cuba, Vorhees recommended the administration further their involvement, this time taking specific interest in caring for the Cuban refugee children.[5]

Simultaneously, James Baker (headmaster of an American school in Havana) met with Walsh (who was already invested in helping already arrived child refugees settle into their new life) to detail his efforts helping parents send their children to Miami. Baker's original goal was to establish a boarding school in the United States for Cuban refugee children. However, both later agreed professional social welfare agencies would be better equipped for the job. The Catholic Welfare Bureau, the Children's Services Bureau and Jewish Family and Children's Services were the agencies that ultimately agreed to care for the refugee children. Thus, in November 1960, they appealed for federal funding, and, following the earlier recommendation from Vorhees, it was granted.[5]

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