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Tom Atlee: What Does Sense-Making Mean? Part 4

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics
Tom Atlee

What does “making sense” mean? (Sense-making – Part 4)

The phrase “it makes sense” has a lot going on in it, most of which we don’t pay much attention to… and that can create problems. I explore what that’s about and how to watch out for “confirmation bias” – the big booby trap in personal and group sense-making. I then dig underneath a similarly problematic phrase – “common sense” – questioning how common “common sense” usually is. Finally, I look at what might be involved in actually discovering or developing a collective sense of things that is common enough for all of us to use together.

Part 1   –   Part 2   –   Part 3

See Also: Tom Atlee @ Phi Beta Iota

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Sarah Chamberlain: Open Letter from an American Coward

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

Open Letter from an American Coward

My enemies are in a word, communists. Modern communists do not usually call themselves such. They do not talk about workers rising up and seizing the Means of Production.  Instead, modern communists adopt a rhetorical stance where they assume that all people and all property are ALREADY COLLECTIVIZED, then calmly discuss what WE should do . . .

This is how the enemy operates. In order for modern communists to have the latitude to execute their plans, they need every citizen to be as weak and dependent as possible.

EQUIVALENT OF THOMAS PAINE'S COMMON SENSE.  READ THIS!!!!!!

Full Text Back Up Copy Below the Fold — Not Normally Done, This is Vital

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