The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I explore here the diversity of responses – my own and others’ – to existential threats like extreme climate change … and I offer one way to map and make sense of those responses. This essay makes an interesting companion to my earlier essay Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities Dear friends, In …
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Tom Atlee’s Co-Intelligence Journal What this message is about: Concerns about civilizational collapse and human extinction in the foreseeable future are rising and moving from the fringes into the mainstream. Many who share these concerns are understandably prone to despair and cynicism. What are the various life-serving ways to confront and respond to these daunting …
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What this message is about: A good description of “the public” as a collective entity potentially able to think and respond as a whole. “The Public” is way deeper than “public opinion” Dear friends, This remarkable description of systemic problems in the quasi-democracy of the US, and of the proper conception of “the public” and …
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Research shows that individuals bend facts and math to align with their existing views. But does this happen when they’re in high quality interactive deliberative forums? A recent Salon article “Study Proves That Politics and Math Are Incompatible” reports that research led by Yale law professor Dan Kahan demonstrates that “it’s easier than we think …
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Surveillance and parasitism harm society’s collective intelligence What this post is about: Society’s collective intelligence needs to be able to see clearly what’s going on and take action about it. Both NSA surveillance and corporate suppression of activism interfere with that vital dynamic. This post clarifies what’s going on in these dynamics and suggests strategies …
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Escaping the Left-Right Box-In Match The “transpartisan” movement is only the tip of a very large and long-term “upwising” of people Left and Right (and otherwise) who realize common ground exists with people they thought of as polar opposites from them politically. I often say “Things are getting better and better and worse and worse …
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Toward an era of wise caring Reason and feeling each have gifts and limitations. Used well together they generate wise caring. There are examples of wise caring in earlier human societies and we have an opportunity today to build on them and enhance that capacity in our whole civilization. Down deep within us – underlying …
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