Friday, December 4, 11:50 a.m. EUGENE HILTON HOTEL, Vistas Ballroom, 12th Floor
WHERE IS AMERICA GOING & WHY ARE WE IN A HAND BASKET?
Russell Sadler
“Our civic life has become "unhinged" because several of our basic institutions have become „unhinged by technological change and a new attitude that dis-respects anything they do not agree with.” Russell Sadler explains how mod-ern communication technology is taking us back to the future.
Russell Sadler, one of the founders of City Club of Eugene, is well known for his razor-sharp, pull-no-punches professional commentary. He can always be counted on to put a little stick about (as the British say). Those who attended his September 2004 address to City Club on Why Elections Are Not Final Any-more will recall his concluding paragraph:
“Our state and national political life is increasingly irrelevant to most peoples" daily lives. No one should be surprised that half the voting age population has no incentive to participate in our increasingly precarious exercise in self government. The politicians who control that system have given those peo-ple no incentive to participate, at the same time treating the system like it was their private preserve to loot for their supporters at will. This abuse cannot go on indefinitely.
The question is: When will the backlash come, and what will be the consequences?”
Russell spends April through October aboard the whale-watch boat Odyssey, operated by San Juan Excursions in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington. This winter, he is liv-ing in Ashland and working on a documentary on The Oregon Caves produced by the same people who filmed Crater Lake: The Mirror of Heaven for PBS. He is also the interim producer for Jefferson Public Radio's Jefferson Exchange, heard in Eugene over KRVM.
Don Kahle will introduce Russell Sadler.
Russell Sadler, one of the founders of City Club of Eugene, is well known for his razor-sharp, pull-no-punches professional commentary. He can always be counted on to put a little stick about (as the British say). Those who attended his September 2004 address to City Club on Why Elections Are Not Final Any-more will recall his concluding paragraph:
“Our state and national political life is increasingly irrelevant to most peoples" daily lives. No one should be surprised that half the voting age population has no incentive to participate in our increasingly precarious exercise in self government. The politicians who control that system have given those peo-ple no incentive to participate, at the same time treating the system like it was their private preserve to loot for their supporters at will. This abuse cannot go on indefinitely.
The question is: When will the backlash come, and what will be the consequences?”
Russell spends April through October aboard the whale-watch boat Odyssey, operated by San Juan Excursions in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington. This winter, he is liv-ing in Ashland and working on a documentary on The Oregon Caves produced by the same people who filmed Crater Lake: The Mirror of Heaven for PBS. He is also the interim producer for Jefferson Public Radio's Jefferson Exchange, heard in Eugene over KRVM.
Don Kahle will introduce Russell Sadler.
