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John Steiner: From Israel, Call for Politics of Heroism versus Hope

Phi Beta Iota:  The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as  a total read.  The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.  Not so.  This is not an either/or choice between …

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Tom Atlee: Entering Interdependence on Independence Day

Entering Interdependence on Independence Day Dear friends, So many thoughts on US Independence Day…. 1.  For years there have been Declarations of INTERdependence and suggestions and organizing for INTERdependence day.  I first learned about this 8 years ago and wrote it up at http://www.co-intelligence.org/interdependenceday.html  Googling it today I see the movement has flourished – and …

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Reference: Open-Ended Semiosis – Symbiotic Intelligence

Group T-3 Fluid Dynamics• Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboraory • MS B216 Los Alamos NM 87545 505 667-9094 • 505 665-5926 fax • nlj@lanl.gov These pages contain information from Los Alamos reports: LA-UR 97-1200, 98-489, 98-2227, 98-1150, 98-2549The Symbiotic Intelligence Project Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed Networks Driven by Human Interaction From New Frontiers in …

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Theophillis Goodyear: Edgar Morin as “Root” for Sy-Bernetics

Every avenue of vital feedback is jammed, mostly by mega media corporations, but also by other social institutions, like collectives of public “servants.” The result is like the original “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Paralysis. Nothing moves. In pursuing various lines of inquiry, I keep coming up with one name: Edgar Morin.  He was …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III All the kum-ba-ya in the world and all the micro-issue think tanks and advocacy groups are ineffective because they lack a strategic analytic model, a process for doing intelligence so as to do informed activist democracy, and a call to arms that …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III Education The core value of universal education must inform the most intrinsic function and principle of a democratic society, in order that self-directed reason is inculcated into the populace. . . . . . . . . . To this end, Durant [in Philosophy …

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Venessa Miemis: Awareness Design – The Most Powerful Field for Our Future?

Awareness Design: The Most Powerful Field for Our Future? OK, OK, I don’t really subscribe to anything being “the most” of something… the headline was just a bit of sensationalism to capture your attention. 😉 *gently slaps self on wrist* However, now that you’re here, I want to make a case for a new field of …

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