If you’ve got time and some patience, recordings of the two Senate information briefings on the UH Stevie Wonder concert are available for online viewing on Olelo’s on demand service, OleloNet.
Here’s the information, courtesy of Olelo.
The Senate’s Special Committee on Accountability (SCA02) Briefing videos are available on the Senate Archive page:
http://olelo.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=13
The links to the videos are:
9/24/12
http://olelo.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=13&clip_id=3062710/2/12
http://olelo.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=13&clip_id=30802Regards,
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Ian, thanks for these links. I missed the first hour or so of each hearing and wondered where I could find the recordings.
I think for a small fee, Olelo will burn a DVD of the hearings as well. Check with them if you want the Senate’s Greatest Hit(ter)s!
In this country today, there are several types of people who did not exist in an earlier generation: young, educated, industrious people who cannot find work (and in some cases, will never find work); middle-aged people with zero job security; and highly accomplished older people who have climbed to the top of the ladder of success and simply refuse to retire.
This third group is of interest here. The Baby Boom generation spurned their parents’ conservatism, but were just as consumer oriented as their parents. When they hit middle age, they found themselves without a life’s savings and, panicking, they started putting everything into the stock market, which boomed with this new source of investment. But like a pyramid scheme that flourishes by drawing in new investment rather than profitably selling actual products, the market became unstable with amateur investing (gambling), leading to a collapse. In fact, this has happened several times, and now the Boomers seem to be retreating from the market. But this leaves the most affluent and powerful group in American society often simply unable to retire. As human lifespans continue to expand, the situation actually becomes more dire not just for them, but for everyone else, who cannot move up.
This is what’s happening in the political sphere in Hawaii. The old generation simply refuses to retire, and and the society is stuck with old ideas promoted by people who live in the past and whose performance is in decline. But this could also prove to be one aspect of the deeper socioeconomic context of what is happening at UH. What we might have are elderly administrators who will do anything for money in order to keep themselves in employment indefinitely. Professors might complain about this, but the same also goes for them. In fact, it applies to the whole society.
This is no one’s fault, and there is probably little that can be done about it. It’s an economic and sociological phenomenon. But instead of playing this blame game over minor fiascoes in the athletic’s department of an obscure university, we could address how larger forces are at work, and at least try to mitigate against them. The Regents should at least try to pick a system president who is, among other things, relatively at the top of their game in terms of age. The same goes for the political sphere.