Month: October 2017

Posted on

Yoda: Jim Kunstler Says “Overturn Citizens United”

Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Jim Kunstler's Solution To Uniting American Citizens – Overturn ‘Citizens United'

The crux of the argument is that corporations cannot be said to be entirely and altogether the equivalent of persons for all legal purposes. In law, corporations have duties, obligations, and responsibilities to their shareholders first, and only after that to the public interest or the common good, and only then by pretty strict legal prescription. It may be assumed that the interests of corporations and their shareholders are in opposition to, and in conflict with, the public interest. And insofar as elections are fundamentally matters of the public interest, corporations must be prohibited from efforts to influence the outcome of elections.

Posted on

Anthony Judge: Psychosocial Learnings from the Spiral Form of Hurricanes Implications of the triple helix and the 3-fold triskelion as “cognitive cyclones”?

Cultural Intelligence
Anthony Judge

Psychosocial Learnings from the Spiral Form of Hurricanes

Implications of the triple helix and the 3-fold triskelion as “cognitive cyclones”?

Introduction
Achieving perspective on a vortex through triadic framing
Contrasting the implications of “triple helix” — cognitive and otherwise
Systemic closure: fourth helix — and beyond?
Relevance of any helical model to global governance?
Reconciling triskelion and triple helix: a topological transformation with psychosocial implications?
Attribution of significance: considering meaningful pattern mapping
References