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“A Not So Divided America” – but is it wise?

A new study of 24 major surveys in the U.S. shows clearly that partisan gridlock in Washington DC is not the result of partisan disagreements over policy out in the districts and states that are supposedly represented in Congress. If elected public officials heeded the expressed policy preferences of their constituents, bipartisan policies would be readily formulated on more than 2/3 of the issues facing the nation.

The researchers found “remarkably little difference between the views of people who live in red (Republican) districts or states, and those who live in blue (Democratic) districts or states… Most people living in red districts/states disagreed with most people in blue districts/states on only four percent of the questions… For a large majority of questions – 69 percent – there were no statistically significant differences between the views in the red districts/states and the blue districts/states.”

Well!! What a surprise! You’d never know it from the sounds emanating from Congress and the pundits!

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2014/07/062014/07/04

Tom Atlee: Role of Collective Intelligence in Wise Democracy Needed for Humanity’s Survival

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence

TITLE: The role of collective intelligence in the wise democracy needed for humanity's survival

ABSTRACT: This article proposes that the primary function of intelligence is to sustain a dynamic system's balance between environmental control and adaptability. A dynamic system needs to remain in tune with its changing environments so that its actions continue to be successful. It does this through impacting its environment and adapting itself to changing conditions. Both strategies depend on awareness of environmental realities and their relevance to the success and survival of the intelligent system.

Human collective intelligence in technological, economic, and cultural realms has led to the rapid evolution of human civilization's capacity to impact its environment. Humanity's problem-solving capabilities have translated problematic circumstances into new forms of impact, a process known as progress. However, this process has today projected extremes of actual and potential impact into unprecedented scales and realms which challenge not only our ability to respond but the very basis of our responsive capacities – the nature of our intelligence itself.

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2014/07/022021/03/05

Georgi Alexandrov Stankov: Announcement on the New Theory of the Universal Law

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Extraterrestial Intelligence

Announcement on the New Theory of the Universal Law

Herewith I announce the donation of

ONE MILLION EURO (€ 1 000 000,-)

to the first scientific institution that recognizes the eternal validity of the New Theory of the Universal Law and complies with the following rules as set below.

The Objective of this prize competition was fairly simple:

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2014/06/262014/06/26

Daily Bell: Death to Public Open Source

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Phi Beta Iota: It's probably a great honor to be slammed by the staff of The Daily Bell, but it would be even more constructive if they got in touch. Steele's comments are inserted.

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Rings-Bell

No, We Are Not Fans of ‘Open Source' Public Solutions

By Staff Report

The Daily Bell – June 26, 2014

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2014/06/152014/06/14

Tom Atlee: Empathy Part of Co-Intelligence

Collective Intelligence

Realizing Empathy as Part of Co-Intelligence

Few people – including myself until recently – have realized how important empathy is to co-intelligence. Here I focus on four important connectors between empathy and co-intelligence – being heard, random selection, effective deep understanding, and resonant intelligence – that are fundamental to the creation of a truly wise democracy.

Late in March I was told that I would be given the first Credere award for promoting “empathic individualism”.

At first this struck me as odd. While I have written about empathy a number of times, it has certainly not been my central focus. Furthermore, I know a number of colleagues for whom empathy IS their focus – and some of them are doing excellent work worthy of such an award. (I think of Miki Kashtan, in particular.)

Although I suggested this to the person responsible for the award, he insisted that he wanted me as their first recipient. As we talked about this and about what I might say in the speech he wanted me to give in October when I formally received the award, I had some interesting realizations I want to share with you about empathy and co-intelligence.

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2014/06/122014/06/11

Eagle: Practical Guide to Collapse and Revolution

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse

David Graeber

[from The Baffler No. 22, 2013]

What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society. Nowadays, we live in an age when, if rebel armies do come sweeping into a city, or mass uprisings overthrow a dictator, it’s unlikely to have any such implications; when profound social transformation does occur—as with, say, the rise of feminism—it’s likely to take an entirely different form. It’s not that revolutionary dreams aren’t out there. But contemporary revolutionaries rarely think they can bring them into being by some modern-day equivalent of storming the Bastille.

At moments like this, it generally pays to go back to the history one already knows and ask: Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? For me, the person who has asked this most effectively is the great world historian Immanuel Wallerstein. He argues that for the last quarter millennium or so, revolutions have consisted above all of planetwide transformations of political common sense.

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2014/05/102014/05/10