Marty Carter

I was referred recently to Marty Carter by Patricia Angus. Both work with wealthy families on family dynamics and family governance. Marty's site, Baton, "makes the case" for this work as well as I have ever seen it made. Baton? Could be the orchestra leader's, I guess, or the intergenerational relay team's, or that of the Field Marshall. Money, love, power, control, values, traditions, legacies, the self torn among conflicting obligations, blindness and insight - all that stuff is what 99% of the world's novels are about. Most Greek tragedies. A good deal of farce too. What lens brings all this into focus? Law, accounting, family therapy, social work, political or moral theory, religious rites like confession and penance, or the arts? We are, I believe, at the very earliest stages of thinking through how to raise morally sound heirs in an unsound society of which they and their parents are both the producer and the product, the symptom, disease, and potential cure. It is still considered, quite literally, "crazy" to even talk as I just implicitly did about the interface in a putative Democracy between Dynasty, Moral Sanity, Philanthropy, and Justice. Forgive me! Marty and I discussed these things, but I remain as crazy as before. I remember a conversation along these lines with Patricia Angus who murmured, "O now you are talking about reality," as if we had been talking about art. Sometimes it is hard to know which is which, for sure.