The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Anonymous [US counterterrorism analyst] NOTE: Free Online, Table of Contents Beyond Five Stars–Epic, Poetic, Startling, Reasoned, June 11, 2011 I have been totally absorbed with this book, and I HATE electronic books. At the age of 58, if I can’t hold it and flip back and forth and quickly check the index, and so on, …
See Also: Gil Scot Heron, 1949-2011 Review: Philosophy and the Social Problem–The Annotated Edition Review: The Lessons of History
“Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.” —George Eliot We’re losing! Here’s a playbook, see especially the focus on new metrics that have …
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Excellent query. Nothing specific from an automated point of view, but below are some human-in-the-loop reflections.
EXTRACT from Google Group Next Net: That made me think of the Emergent Democracy paper that Joi Ito authored collaboratively (2001-2003) with several other folks (including Ross Mayfield and I) a few years ago. Digging into my files I found the attached marked up version… it aligns pretty well with some of the discussions here. …
Here are the concise references focused on revolution. For corruption, collective intelligence, open space and other methods of non-violent consensus building and emergence, see the lists at the end of this post. Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today Search: four preconditions for revolution Search: revolution theory preconditions Here is the bottom line:
It can safely be said that most great ideas result from errors (including accidents), because the real break-throughs occur when the prevailing paradgim (“business as usual”) is so demonstrably unfit as to call into question its further utility OR something really sensational is discovered that is totally inconsistent with the prevailing paradigm. PERSISTENCE rooted in …
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