Hace tiempo que en Cuandoerachamo debimos escribir un artculo sobre las minitecas de los ochentas. Un tema donde hay mucha informacin pero que es difcil. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Minitecas de los ochentas Cuando era Chamo. Hace tiempo que en Cuandoerachamo debimos escribir un artculo sobre las minitecas de los ochentas. Un tema donde hay mucha informacin pero que es difcil condensarla en un solo post. Esperamos que los comentarios complementen todos los detalles que se nos pueden escapar en este artculo. Que podemos decir de las Minitecas los conos musicales de finales de los setentas y todos los ochentas. En aquella poca el atractivo de una fiesta o espectculo estaba ligada al nombre de la miniteca que participaba en el evento. Historia de las Minitecas en Venezuela. Todo comenz en los setentas con las picotadas, reuniones de un poco de gente para escuchar msica desde un pico pick up que vena a ser un equipo de sonido ambulante. Luego a alguien se le ocurri la ingeniosa idea de construir una especie de carreta de msica mvil con un equipo bsico de amplificacin y sus buenas cornetas. A este invento se le llam la Caravana y se hizo famoso en varias fiestas en Caracas. Muchas minitecas se crearon a partir de las ideas emprendedoras de un grupo de panas del bachillerato o de la universidad. A principios de los ochentas con un dlar a 4,3. A mediados de los 8. Los dueos de las minitecas se hicieron empresarios exitosos a los 2. Nombres de Minitecas. Las ms recordadas de la poca Sandy Lane, New York New Yor, Bettelgeuse, Explosion People, Infierno, ZC, Maui, Excalibur, Caribean, Traffic, The Rainbow, Soultrain, Possesion, Tridimension, The Lawyers, Tconection, etc. Si nos ha quedado alguna importante fuera de la lista, favor indicarnos a travs de los comentarios. Disculpen nuestra limitada memoria. Esta poca tambin arroj y consolid locutores que aun hoy da estn activos y son respetados por ejemplo Valdemaro Martnez, Ivn Loscher, Jess Leandro, Enrique Hoffman, Alejandro Blanco, etc. Guerras de Minitecas. Lo que impulso la promocin de las minitecas fue sin duda las famosas guerras de minitecas eventos anuales donde se reuna la crema de la crema de minitecas a mostrar la calidad de sus mezclas musicales y la potencia de sus equipos de sonido e iluminacin. Grandes estructuras metlicas se armaban con cuidado durante el da, cientos de reflectores acompaaban las torres de cornetas para crear el ambiente de fiesta. Las personas, poco a poco, inundaban el lugar en su afn de presenciar una guerra de mucha diversin. La primera guerra de minitecas se hizo en el ao 1. Radio Capital decidi organizar la primera guerra de Minitecas en el Poliedro de Caracas, como parte de la celebracin de la pro graduacin del liceo San Agustn. A partir de all, ao tras ao el evento se fue repitiendo hasta mediados de los ochentas. Las ltimas guerras de minitecas fue la organizada por Caracas 7. Poliedro y la Guerra de minitecas Copa Da de la Juventud en el parque Naciones Unidas de Caracas. En algunas de estas guerras de minitecas los asistentes terminaban agarrandose a coazos y haba que proteger los equipos hasta que llegar la policia Tiempos memorables para muchos. Discos de Minitecas. La mezclas de las minitecas no solo quedaba en el recuerdo de los asistentes a una guerra de minitecas. Varios sellos discogrficos y emisoras de radio decidieron producir discos de las ms importantes minitecas del momento. Memorable todos los discos de mezclas del sello Magic Record en los aos ochentas tales como Magic Mezclas I, Magic Mezclas II, Guerra de Minitecas, Invasin de Minitecas, Discotequeando, Megaton Mix, etc. Tambin simbolos discogrficos de los ochentas los discos Club New York New York, Bettelgeuse Mix I de Caracas 7. Sandy Lane de Sonogrfica. La miniteca fue sin duda el icono musical en Venezuela en los ochentas. Watch The Cowboys 4Shared' title='Watch The Cowboys 4Shared' />Una rumba sin miniteca no era rumba. Esperemos que compartan con nosotros sus recuerdos de las minitecas que ms nota les dieron. Power, Seduction and War Robert Greenes Speech at Yale. Below is the transcript of a speech Robert did at Yale in October along with the Q A that followed. For those of you who would prefer to listen to an mp. Host Welcome everybody. So, its a pleasure to have all of you here, and a particular pleasure to welcome our honored guest, Robert Greene. He is, well, you are all here, so I think you probably know a lot about his books, his writings. Ill state just a few words. He has trained in classical literature. And then had a very shifting career for some early period of his post college life. And then settled in to write a series of extremely fascinating books that draw on the classical training and readings that he did. The books that the lives and writings of a number of the major figures. Hes written about power, about seduction, about war. With that background, of course, it is not surprising that he also made a wonderful connection with the hip hop crowd. He became a guru of them for a while. He set up a collaboration with them. We were talking beforehand, it is clear that he enjoyed that collaboration. And it is not bad to be a guru, from what he said. But, it also achieved some of his other aims about who he was hoping to help empower. I thought what we would do is, after we give him a big applause for welcome, I will ask him to say a bit about himself and what he is working on, and then we will open it up for questions. But, why dont we start with giving him a nice, warm welcome. Robert Is it better if I stand or if I sit Or what is the protocol Host Whatever is comfortable. Robert Okay. Host It is informal. Youre welcome to sit. Robert Well, I come from Los Angeles. I was actually born in Los Angeles. And I dont mean to disparage California, or Los Angeles, particularly, or any of the people from there. But I will say that the IQ levels in a place like that are generally a little bit lower than what I find here. So, Im actually a little bit intimidated by all of these very smart people here. So, Im a little bit nervous. I hope you understand. Basically, I started writing back in 1. Ive been writing my whole life. But I met somebody, we were in Italy together at the same time, working on a project, and it was a really awful Machiavellian environment, in Italy, if you can imagine that. And all of these terrible political games were being played. And we were just miserable and depressed. This was actually 1. He was a book packager and he asked me if I had any ideas for books. And all of this pain that I had been through in the work world with all of these political, conniving figures, it just came up out of me. It was a beautiful day in Venice, Italy, and I sort of improvised this idea for a book, and he loved it. He basically paid me to live while I wrote The 4. Laws of Power. And thats where it started. For 1. 5 to 1. 6 years, Ive had this weird position in life that I dont know how many other people have had where I have been able to devote all of my attention to studying what I consider to be the most powerful, charismatic, successful, Machiavellian characters in history and contemporary figures, like, 5. I may not be good at many things. I cant build things with my hands or anything like that. But I have this one expertise why some people excel, why some people are superior in the political game or in their creativity or whatever it is. In figuring out what I wanted to talk to you about today, I was talking with Casper, who I want to thank for helping to organize this. There is sort of a philosophy that all of these figures that Ive studied share. And I am often asked, or people say, I want to become powerful. Whats the secret to itI dont believe in that kind of glib four sentence or one book answer about how to be powerful. But there is an attitude towards life, a way of looking at things, a way of thinking that all of these people that I have been studying they all share this way of looking at the world. It is what I call radical realism. And the reason I call it radical is, realism has this idea of just understanding the world and it sort of has a cynical, sometimes an edge to it. I want the idea of really, deeply understanding what life is about, how people operate in this world. And not only being realistic and understanding it, but accepting in a very deep way that this is what the world is like and actually loving it and embracing it and working with reality. All of these figures from 5. Cent and Napoleon Bonaparte to Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, I believe they all share this kind of attitude. So, I am going to talk, hopefully not too long, because I really want to get to your questions, and I encourage you to barrage me with all kinds of difficult questions. I want to talk about three aspects of this attitude. The first is, what I call, Machiavellian realism or the Machiavellian reality. The second is existential reality, what it really means to be a human being. The third is what I call aesthetic realism. My idea is that to the degree that you accept these realities in life, you are going to be successful and powerful. And to the degree that you deny them and you avoid them and you hate them and you are miserable about them and you try and run away, you are not going to have success in life. So, the first one, as I said, is what I call our Machiavellian reality. There is a concept that lately fascinates me that I have been using for my next book. It is a term called Machiavellian intelligence. And it is something that came about in the sixties and seventies, where various scientists, people studying the brain, they are trying to understand why is it that the human brain is so much larger than anything else we have in natureHow did this happen Why did our brains develop in this way so rapidly and become so much more complex than any other animal on the planet And they basically went back to primates. The Sleeping Dictionary Full Movie here. Unless you believe in creationism, our ancestors. Basically, primates are the other animal that have this exceptionally large brain. A brain that seems to be in excess of their needs. To explain why our brains developed in this way, they looked at primates, and they came up with a really fascinating theory called Machiavellian intelligence. The gist of it is the following. What makes primates different from any other animal is that they live in very complex social environments. There are other animals, like wolves, etc., that live in packs, that have hierarchies, the alpha male, etc. But primates, and Im talking about chimps, baboons, orangutans, that whole group, have a much deeper, a much more complex social organization. They have rituals of grooming, where they groom each other for hours upon hours during the day, forming all kinds of friendships and alliances. They remember these friendships and these alliances over the space of 1. The other thing that primates have that is so bizarre and interesting is that they are the only animal we know that practice deception and games of manipulation among each other. There is no other animal on the planet that we can say that about. So, they label primates as the Machiavellian creature, the Machiavellian animal. They have shown colonies of monkeys, for instance, in Puerto Rico, where they do a lot of studies, incredible games of manipulation that are going on among these little, small communities. One of the discoveries that they have in looking at these primates is that they possess a power that is known as the theory of mind. Now I dont know if you are familiar with this concept. But, basically, it is the idea that only humans or primates have a concept where I can think about, perhaps, what is going on in your mind right now. Most animals can only judge another creature based on its outward behavior about what they are doing, about the threat that they, perhaps, represent. But a human and a primate has the capacity to actually, literally imagine, and I am pointing to you, because I am thinking about you right there.