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Otto Scharmer: Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, Post-Human – How You Can Reconnect and Transform

How to Access Your Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage We all face the abyss of three great divides: ecological, social, spiritual. Post-Truth: Trapped in fake news digital echo chambers. You can’t know, nobody knows. Post-Democracy: Families, communities, societies breaking apart. You can’t connect, nobody can. Post Human: Lost connection and agency. You can’t transform, nobody can. …

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CounterPunch: Paul Street Rants on US Wrecked Democracy Under 1% Deep State Oligarchy

Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy? Consistent with the proto-fascistic and neo-McCarthyite spirt of the times,  the Democratic Party is reconfiguring itself  as what Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers call the  “party of military and intelligence candidates.” It may play out how the PPC Dems hope, helping their …

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Tom Atlee: Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?

Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy? Dear OZY Third Rail folks, You ask “Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?“ Your question dances around an even bigger, even more important situation, without actually acknowledging it and its related question: Is it realistic to depend on our current form …

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Tom Atlee: Wise Democracy’s Most Fundamental Principle

Wise democracy’s most fundamental principle I devised the idea of wise democracy to help us “evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf of the whole.” (“That’s nice,” you say, “but what does that actually mean?”) In this essay I explore why I consider that statement to be wise democracy’s “prime …

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