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Phil Cubeta
Bryn Mawr, PA
Phil Cubeta, Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families
Interests: Helping Flourishing Families own, rule, and save the world
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Yes, God, canvassed Wealth Bondage and raised up a Champion. Barabbas was long gone.
The Language of the Gate
In his remarkable 1983 book, The Gift: On the Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde suggests we have three languages to discuss property, the gift, giftedness, and poetics. The language of the hearth: Here a mother sings lullabies to an infant, tells fairy tales to toddlers, and passes on terrif...
I take my science directly from my immediate superior. When and if sea level rises, she will inform me of any action I might need to take.
How The Most Trusted Advisors To Concentrated Wealth can Now Capitalize on the Utter Failure of their Professional Actions and Worldview
Tutor and Master Jack are both Morals Tutors to the world's wealthiest, and at times have been Privy Counselors handling the Confidential Dirty Work, and noted procurers, for the King's pleasure. Neither judges those served. What happens in Wealth Bondage stays in Wealth Bondage. Both are as loy...
A bit low rent for the WB Clientele. But in a recent upscale retreat, I was pleased to see a former priest turned wealth consultant to very rich families, use a Buddhist temple bell to bring us to our authentic self. All it was missing was the donkey's whinny, and kick, to express my true self. Dryden, too, though, had much to reproach himself for, as Poet Laureate. And maybe even Virgil, who I have heard cited at these conferences. (Mentors come from Athena, so too we as godlike advisors enter the precincts of power to preserve Dynasties from their own vice and folly, for 100 years or more. If only DJT, Jr had been properly mentored he might have been more discrete in meeting with the Russian emissaries. Those oligarchs, too, have some rough edges that one trained in Virgil might smooth away, for the right fee.
In Praise of Folly in Client Engagements
What a nightmare! Woke up in a cold sweat, screaming, and clutching my privates with both hands. Tutor, in my dream, had his "bovver boots" on and was kicking me as I curled up in a fetal position naked behind the Dumpster at the Corner of Wealth and Bondage. Apparently, I must have called mysel...
The ecstasy of partis pris victorious.
Of The Holy in High Office
rapiō (present infinitive rapere, perfect active rapuī, supine raptum); third conjugation iō-variant I snatch, grab, carry off, abduct, rape Wikipedia Whenever I hear people (some of the gentlest nicest people I know) talk about becoming "integral" as somehow meaning they are now closer to ...
I believe there may be two Tom Watson's here.
Tom Watson
Word on the street: "Tom Watson is emerging as Mr. Philanthropy Blogger." A journalist for over 20 years, he edits onPhilanthropy: A Global Resource for Nonprofit Professionals, and also has a personal blog. I will read him for awhile before hazarding an opinion. So far I see a good writer, a...
Would like to do better, but am writing these days into a silence. The party seems to have moved on to Wealth Bondage: Facebook Edition, or Wealth Bondage: Twitter Edition. I am considering Wealth Bondage: The Medium Edition. I need to get back to writing like myself, from behind the masks of Sundry Confident Idiots. Imagine a Twitter Feed written by one Author from behind the Masks of Candidia Cruikshanks, and Company. Not one would ever speak sense, any more than on any Twitter feed, but the gaps between the posts, would speak volumes. Not sure if I have the technology chops to create such an Exercise in Futility in Wealth Bondage for the Public Good.
Scenes from the Castle
I have not been sharing much about Audrey and Tutor at the Castle, because in recent months the world has become such an angry, divisive, and often delusional place. Yes, one day Audrey will buy out and own the Billionaires, every last one of them. They will be her loyal vassals, as servile as t...
Catharsis, the world is healed, and we all return to our day jobs.
Eugenics after Trump, per William Schambra
William (Bill) Schambra (Dr. Schambra, in fact) is one of the most vital and stimulating thinkers on philanthropy, public policy, and political theory and practice. Although he may not spend much quality time with the hicks, lubbers, life insurance agents, money managers, petite bourgeois client...
Lawful looting is not illegal, and to protest it would be a crime.
The Logic of The Supplement: Capitalism Plus
To say in business we have "two bottomlines" is to say we have none. The first bottomline is a quanitity. The second is a quality. The first is demoninated in dollars. Only God knows what the second is denominated in, maybe quality of life, maybe subjective preference, maybe some "metric" of jus...
Neoliberalism or conflagration. Hard choice. I go for neoliberalism, as a slower burn.
The Logic of The Supplement: Capitalism Plus
To say in business we have "two bottomlines" is to say we have none. The first bottomline is a quanitity. The second is a quality. The first is demoninated in dollars. Only God knows what the second is denominated in, maybe quality of life, maybe subjective preference, maybe some "metric" of jus...
I have a link to Wealth and Wisdom Tutors but do not want to send traffic to my competitors. They are doing a lot better than I am anyway, They never send me any business. Why should I send them any?
How The Most Trusted Advisors To Concentrated Wealth can Now Capitalize on the Utter Failure of their Professional Actions and Worldview
Tutor and Master Jack are both Morals Tutors to the world's wealthiest, and at times have been Privy Counselors handling the Confidential Dirty Work, and noted procurers, for the King's pleasure. Neither judges those served. What happens in Wealth Bondage stays in Wealth Bondage. Both are as loy...
Even Parker Palmer's group operates as it must inside Wealth Bondage: Aligning Soul and Role. Clarity Circles and Circles of Trust are trademarked. I am sure their is a rationale for that. Wish the Catholic Church had trade marked "The Holy Spirit," it might have saved us from the Reformation. If Simony is the sin of selling holy things, and if the sin against the holy ghost is one sin that cannot be forgiven, it is no wonder to me that you went numb. You couldn't sell the spirit or pretend her other name if Mammon, or that the two are actually one. The spirit died within, for that moment, so she could live for another day. She rightly withdrew. When she returns who knows if might be as gentle breeze, or like a hurricane. We have courted her using as bait wealth and preferment. And guess what, she will not take it, but she will have a lesson for us to learn.
After Bexit, Trump, and Bernie, How goes Dynastic Wealth Planning for Global Citizens?
Certain advisors to billionaire families say their clients live on a kind of Paradise Island, and that the goal of the advisor is to prevent the family from being deported back to the middle class. How, then, will Brexit, and the populist backlash from Trump and Bernie voters filter into the eli...
Fail often, fail better. I think one of Samuel Beckett's tramps said that. Tried to hang himself but the rope broke. The human comedy, played as tragic comedy, in two acts, where a third might be expected.
American Bacchae
Tutor Skyped me last night at 3 am. Apropos of whatever was on his mind, he said, "Social Enterprises now have as many bottom lines as there were once gods on Mt Olympus. It takes only two to make tragedy, and three for farce. Soon Ovid's Metamorphoses will be taught in business school. They c...
Yes, good if you don't get caught doing it.
What Advisors to the Uber Wealthy Say to Each other to Keep the Game Going
"Give me a penny and I will sing you a song, but give me the penny first." - The Hack persona in Swift's Tale of the Tub On the main stage, a well known attorney is demonstrating how with a Dynasty Trust a family can grow $4.5 million to $450 million over five generations. In the hallway I am ta...
When the spirit is hijacked for an agenda not her own, those who know the difference go numb. Takes time for the chill to wear off.
After Bexit, Trump, and Bernie, How goes Dynastic Wealth Planning for Global Citizens?
Certain advisors to billionaire families say their clients live on a kind of Paradise Island, and that the goal of the advisor is to prevent the family from being deported back to the middle class. How, then, will Brexit, and the populist backlash from Trump and Bernie voters filter into the eli...
One of the things I am gently exploring is Quaker Circles, patterned on the work of Parker Palmer, at The Center for Courage and Renewal, in which those who have most, can come without being handled, managed or sold, to reconnect, if they can, to that great taproot, or their own inner teacher. Metrics, there will be none.... What can be measured and managed is what is killing us. We have made the means and the management of them into our highest ends. We live to measure and manage, towards any goal however obtuse, however unexamined, however self deluded. We are afraid of silence because it echoes with our own emptiness.
After Bexit, Trump, and Bernie, How goes Dynastic Wealth Planning for Global Citizens?
Certain advisors to billionaire families say their clients live on a kind of Paradise Island, and that the goal of the advisor is to prevent the family from being deported back to the middle class. How, then, will Brexit, and the populist backlash from Trump and Bernie voters filter into the eli...
No progress without Dumpsters on every corner.
Tess Checks her Math
Tess, on track to own a controlling interest in the world, is both musical and a mathematician; both are one to her. She sees numbers and notes in a symphonic synesthesia. When she relaxes on the battlements with her flute, the whales surface, and seem to dance in accompaniment, with the seabird...
At least we all have the rights to bear arms.
How The Most Trusted Advisors To Concentrated Wealth can Now Capitalize on the Utter Failure of their Professional Actions and Worldview
Tutor and Master Jack are both Morals Tutors to the world's wealthiest, and at times have been Privy Counselors handling the Confidential Dirty Work, and noted procurers, for the King's pleasure. Neither judges those served. What happens in Wealth Bondage stays in Wealth Bondage. Both are as loy...
With so little to offer, it is a wonder you are still allowed to vote.
Tess Checks her Math
Tess, on track to own a controlling interest in the world, is both musical and a mathematician; both are one to her. She sees numbers and notes in a symphonic synesthesia. When she relaxes on the battlements with her flute, the whales surface, and seem to dance in accompaniment, with the seabird...
Quietism, withdrawal, endurance, as the fever burns. A post human world is not beyond God's imagination. I can see why, though, Christine, you may have found Impact Investing and Social Ventures an imperfect vehicle for the holy.
After Bexit, Trump, and Bernie, How goes Dynastic Wealth Planning for Global Citizens?
Certain advisors to billionaire families say their clients live on a kind of Paradise Island, and that the goal of the advisor is to prevent the family from being deported back to the middle class. How, then, will Brexit, and the populist backlash from Trump and Bernie voters filter into the eli...
Rights precede the social contract, and the rule of law, or the other way around? The language of "inalienable rights" "endowed by the Creator," indicates that the rights, and human dignity, are not creatures of law. "We the people," though, which people? If you ran Apple, and used Ireland as a tax haven to prevent paying any corporate tax, and had your factories in China, who is "we the people" to whom you owe a debt of fellowship? If you bankrupt people here to enrich people in China, have you done your duty to "We the people"? To the global citizen class the answer is an obvious yes, "All lives have equal value," as Gates Foundation says. "Ability is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not," as Zuckerberg says using his Charitable Initiative to fund a start up training software engineers in Africa, dropping wages in the US. And is this not "Doing good by doing well," for we the people around this flat earth, without regard to national boundaries?
Is it any wonder that the dispossessed here, want America to be Great for them again, and want a wall to keep "them" out of "our" country?
The global class are startled. My is on who among the advisor class will step forward with an opportune set of "solutions." Militarized police, for-profit prison, colonies on Mars, the purchase of an island, philanthropy, social ventures, public service, training children in humility.... I am looking forward to the next phase of this conversation as those whose blindness exacerbated the problem now propose themselves as "Seers," Mentor, Virtuous and Wise Advisors, and Secular Priests who will lead their chosen people to an everlasting paradise of and for the rich.
To find the face of God, look up?
Several years ago, as a new Board Member for Interfaith Worker Justice, I was asked to give a talk on philanthropy to the leaders of the worker centers. Having no idea what a worker center was, I showed up with my usual slide deck, "Creating Inspired Legacies for Highest Capacity Donors." Worker...
The perception is at a 2 of 10, the reality may be far worse than perception yet grasps. The question we have to focus on, though, in Wealth Bondage, is how best to preserve dynastic wealth. What is the least cumbersome concession to the polity that uber-wealth can make to retain its "four capitals," ie, hegemony. Maybe this requires a sounding board or focus group. It would be great if the more thoughtful elements among the dispossessed could use Gifthub comments as a way to convey their need for crumbs to those whose advisors bake the cake.
How The Most Trusted Advisors To Concentrated Wealth can Now Capitalize on the Utter Failure of their Professional Actions and Worldview
Tutor and Master Jack are both Morals Tutors to the world's wealthiest, and at times have been Privy Counselors handling the Confidential Dirty Work, and noted procurers, for the King's pleasure. Neither judges those served. What happens in Wealth Bondage stays in Wealth Bondage. Both are as loy...
You need help flattening yourself. Help will be provided.
How The Most Trusted Advisors To Concentrated Wealth can Now Capitalize on the Utter Failure of their Professional Actions and Worldview
Tutor and Master Jack are both Morals Tutors to the world's wealthiest, and at times have been Privy Counselors handling the Confidential Dirty Work, and noted procurers, for the King's pleasure. Neither judges those served. What happens in Wealth Bondage stays in Wealth Bondage. Both are as loy...
And Google, Virgin, or Tesla may yet colonize Mars, fort those who can afford the fare.
How The Most Trusted Advisors To Concentrated Wealth can Now Capitalize on the Utter Failure of their Professional Actions and Worldview
Tutor and Master Jack are both Morals Tutors to the world's wealthiest, and at times have been Privy Counselors handling the Confidential Dirty Work, and noted procurers, for the King's pleasure. Neither judges those served. What happens in Wealth Bondage stays in Wealth Bondage. Both are as loy...
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