Category: Cultural Intelligence

Plato and Confucius, Spiritual Brothers and Philosopher Kings Living at Two Ends of the World Island

In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr. Quan Le breaks the commonly held belief that the west and east are organized by two fundamentally opposing paradigms of Confucian pragmatism on the one side in opposition to Platonic idealism on the other.

Dr. Le does this by introducing the individuals and philosophies of both great men who lived at a similar time in world history, amidst similar geopolitical circumstances and endowed with identical missions to break their societies out of self-destructive cycles with a focus on the creation of philosopher kings shaped by the love of wisdom more than the love of personal advantage.

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Systemic Coherence of the UN's 17 SDGs as a Global Dream
Rather than merely an arbitrary outcome of political horse-trading

Sections:
Transcending the apparent incoherence of the Sustainable Development Goals
Radical recursivity of cognitive implications of topology and geometry
Role of 17 2D tiling patterns in ordering SDGs?
Role of the 17-fold “wallpaper group” in ordering SDGs?
Cognitive operations potentially analogous to generation of tiling patterns
Higher dimensional coherence of SDGs implied by a set of 17 4-dimensional polyhedra?
Interrelationship of 17 SDGs modelled by 17 regular polyhedra in 4D
Archetypal cognitive confusion with strategic implications?
Distinguishing a domain of hyperreality as the appropriate SDG context?
Coherence of hyperreality through aesthetic intuition and embodied cognition?

Capitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion

Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By “capitalism” I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By “religion” I mean organized collective faith-based belief system.

In times past the dominant religions had names like “Christianity” or “Islam”, which were used to promote doctrines that shaped societies, dominated civilizations, and built entire empires. Theocratic institutions labored on behalf of the powerful to bend entire continents to their will, using narratives about beneficent invisible deities as cover. Nowadays the dominant religion is called capitalism, and the theocratic institutions are called governments, and the beneficent deity is called the invisible hand of the market.

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For Victory Day: It’s Time to Think About Finally Winning WWII

76 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War.

Today, as the world celebrates the anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all?

If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II…

Now please don’t get me wrong. I am eternally thankful for the immortal souls who gave their lives to put down the fascist machine during those bleak years… but the fact is that a certain something wasn’t resolved on the 9th of May, 1945 which has a lot to do with the slow re-emergence of a new form of fascism during the second half of the 20th century and the renewed danger of a global bankers’ dictatorship which the world faces again today.

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Walter Gordon’s Cultural Engineering, Global Governance and Anarchism in Canada
It is the purpose of this brief study to shed light upon a character that has played a powerful role in creating the current dynamic shaping the monetarist, ecological and anarchistic tendencies now activated among the land of “strong and free”. The name of this character is Walter Gordon.
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