Joseph Mastroianni's Page

First Name:

Joseph

Last Name:

Mastroianni

Hometown:

Woburn MA

School/Organization Name:

The Green Slime Mold Theory Foundation

City:

Santa Barbara

State:

CA

My Story:

Retired Helicopter pilot, classical guitarist by avocation, writer; a collection of poetry, and an historical fiction depicting how Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne, affects the life of the protagonist, and in parallel chapters, the life of Bach and how he came to compose it.

I’ve developed the “Green Slime Mold Theory,” based on the practical application of the slime mold microorganism. Each autonomous cell at its own initiative self organizes with no central control. It then communicates and connects with other independent cells to find the shortest and most efficient path to reach a mutual purpose to proliferate infinitely.

Other than a simple code of conduct are no rules and regulations or any organized administration. Each individual citizen is in charge at the same time, all the time. On their own initiative participants will do what is necessary efficiently to seek and find the shortest path by which two purposes will be archived, in a ‘Virtual Internet Forum.”

The first purpose is to establish a one click connection for teaching institutions, especially elementary schools, to the ‘Forum Library.” The library will link to every available source of information about American history, our form of government and all of the pertinent documents and papers.

The second purpose is to convene a “People’s Constitutional Convention” to petition Congress, and direct our representatives to present amendments, developed in the forum, to the States for ratification, thus shortening a cumbersome costly and time consuming process that has resulted in only 17 amendments in more than 200 years. It has never before been tried in the history of our Country.

My Ideal School is a Place Where:

children are allowed the freedom to explore, and to ask the question, "why", without hearing the words, "because I said so."

My Religious Views:

My Own

My Political Views:

Independent

My Favorite Freedom:

All of Them

My Personal Heroes:

Plato, Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jose Maria Gallardo de Rey

My Personal Motto:

If you say you can't, you can not.

My Favorite Journey:

Rode a Bicycle Across America logging the trip for Elemnatary school children

Recommended Reading:

Ahab's Wife, The Road, Cities of the Plain, The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Continuum Concept, The Self and Its Brain, Genome.

Recommended Web sites:

http://www.thegreenslimemoldtheoryfoundation.com/
http://www.wethepeopleconstitutionalconvention.com/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/

Quotable:

Silence between the notes

What happens in nature and in the entire Universe is also applicable in our human reality.

The conflict between two dissonant notes may be discordant but above the chaos is order.

Just as in the Universe it is within the silence between the notes that makes harmonious music.