MOTIVATION – THE IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS – C.E.M. JOAD (1891-1953)

NARRATOR : CEMJ (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad) became a wartime radio celebrity on BBC’s ‘The Brains Trust’, with his catchphrase “It all depends what you mean by…”. CEMJ died in 1953. RWS (Richard W. Symonds) founded this blog - The Motivation Society – and has established himself as an amateur ‘expert’ on the life and work of CEMJ. RWS was born in 1953.

RWS : What motivates you, ’Professor’ Joad, and why ?

CEMJ : It all depends what you mean by ‘motivation’, lad. 

“MOTIVATORS” AND NOAM CHOMSKY

“Professor Noam Chomsky is arguably one of the most influential political analysts of our day and age…he is perhaps best at assessing the underlying MOTIVATORS in global power struggles, violence and political change…it is important to assess if RELIGION may be one of these primary motivators…”. More…http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/200704–.htm

THE MOTIVATION SOCIETY – AN INTRODUCTION

“The Motivation Society is based on the conviction that a greater understanding of motivation will be a critical pre-condition for humanity’s survival in the 21st Century.”…for more details : 

http://crawleyindependent.blogspot.com/2007/05/motivation-society.html

http://rwsetiology.blogspot.com/

http://motivationanalyst.blogspot.com/

LETTER TO ALAN RUSBRIDGER – GUARDIAN EDITOR – 24 MAY 2007 – US-IRAQ-IRAN-GUARDIAN-ENCOUNTER

Alan Rusbridger Esq

Editor – The Guardian

London

 

Dear Alan Rusbridger,

Disturbing front page this week (“Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq”, Guardian, May 22).

What is your  motivation – your reason why – for publishing such obvious, politically-motivated US propaganda ?

I am reminded of the ‘Encounter’ magazine scandal of the late 1960’s, in which its British co-editor – Stephen Spender – immediately resigned after it was revealed the American CIA were covertly funding the British magazine.

Would you resign, Mr Rusbridger, if it was revealed the CIA (and/or one of its ’stakeholders’) were covertly funding your Guardian newspaper ?

In the belief you will not reply to this emailed ‘letter blog’, please would you register this as an official reader complaint.

Thank you. 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Richard W. Symonds  M.C.I.P.D.

THE MOTIVATION SOCIETY

14 Lavington Close, Ifield, Sussex RH11 OHX.

Tel : 18002 01293 535778 (Textphone – I am very deaf)

Email : rwsymonds@hotmail.co.uk (preferred communication)

HERE IS THE REPLY :

Dear Richard, Thank you for your email to Simon Tisdall and the editor. The article to which your open letter refers was published after careful consideration, and should be viewed in the light of Simon’s extensive and well-sourced reporting from and about the region, as well as the record of the paper, which certainly cannot be accused of acting as a mouthpiece for the US administration. For the record Simon requested the interviews with US officials in Baghdad and not the other way around.

Last November, Simon produced a world exclusive story on the US surge in Iraq (http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1948750,00.html), which was also based on unnamed sources. When we publish on this basis — and we are clear that it is a “source” and not the Guardian’s view — it is because we have made a professional informed decision that the source is trusted and that we can give credence to what they say. Intelligent readers can make their own judgments as to whether we are right to do so in the light of subsequent events. In the case of Simon’s story last week, our correspondent Ghaith Abdul Ahad described a very similar situation about Iranian involvement in Iraq in a report from Basra in mid-May (http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2083389,00.html), though I’m not aware we received any complaints about that.

Simon has travelled to Iran three times in the past 12 months and the Guardian maintains a correspondent there. We regularly report Iran’s official view on these issues. Last Tuesday’s story is just one more part of a jigsaw of the growing power struggle in the region and our editors thought it in the public interest to publish the story. The second part of Simon’s report was on the front page the following day http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2085981,00.html

You may be interested to know that my colleague Murray Armstrong reported on discussions about Simon’s story at two of the editor’s morning conferences last week. You can read about them here http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/murray_armstrong/2007/05/iran_iraq_and_sources_of_infor.html

and here  http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/murray_armstrong/2007/05/complaints_about_iran_coverage.html

There were also two very active blogs, echoing your sentiments on the Comment is free website, here http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dd_guttenplan/2007/05/dont_get_fooled_again.html and here http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dilip_hiro/2007/05/briefing_encounter.html

Siobhain Butterworth, the readers’ editor, was away last week but we have conveyed your concerns to her and she may wish to investigate the issue further.

Best wishes,

Elisabeth Ribbans
Associate editor
The Guardian

  —– Original Message —–
 From: richardsy5
 Sent: 24/05/2007 23:00
 To: Alan Rusbridger
 Cc: Simon Tisdall
 Subject: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out..”, Guardian, May 22 07
LETTER TO ALAN RUSBRIDGER – GUARDIAN EDITOR – 24 MAY 2007 – US-IRAQ-IRAN-GUARDIAN-ENCOUNTER, « THE MOTIVATION SOCIETY

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MOTIVATION – LANGUAGE – BEHAVIOUR – AND NOAM CHOMSKY

A fascinating connection between Motivation, Language, Behaviour and ‘The Einstein of Modern Linguistics’ – Noam Chomsky :

 http://www.oneyearexitplan.com/refreshing-look-language-and-behavior-profiling

 Comments please…

THE MOTIVATION FOR WAR – WHY WAR ?

What is the primary motivation for war ? Why war ?

Over to you…

LETTER – ARGUS – MAY 23 2007 – THE WAR BETWEEN HUMANITY AND TYRANNY

Dear Editor,

What a dinosaur (“Are we witnessing death of the Left”, Brighton Argus-Adam Trimingham, May 23) !

Perhaps ‘Mr T’ should be reminded we now live in the early 21st Century – no longer time-warped in the late 20th. The political war between Left and Right is as out-dated as the religious war between Protestant and Catholic.

Of course there is a war; but it is no longer between Left and Right – it is a war between Humanity and Tyranny.

Are we witnessing the death of Humanity ?

God help us if that is the case.

Yours sincerely,

Richard W. Symonds

THE MOTIVATION SOCIETY – “Let Humanity Speak”

14 Lavington Close, Ifield, Sussex RH11 OHX

Tel : 18002 01293 535778 (Textphone – I am very deaf)

Email : rwsymonds@hotmail.co.uk (preferred communication)

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