New Year’s Thoughts
Happy New Year! Out with 2013, in with the new. Let’s all hope 2014 will be better in all kinds of ways. Maybe the economy will finally get some liftoff. Perhaps those in Washington will finally decide to stop throwing food at each other and solve some problems. I...Doubling Down on Guns
It’s been a double dose of disaster the last few days, watching events unfold from Boston to Washington. First the horror at the Boston marathon, and then the decision by the highest deliberative body in the land to shuck all reason and abandon responsibility for...Q&A with Steve McIntosh
Below are five questions and answers with philosopher, author, and the co-founder of the Institute of Cultural Evolution, Steve McIntosh. Why did you write Evolution’s Purpose? After my first book, Integral Consciousness, came out in 2007 I spent much of my...In Search of Mutants and Mystics
I came of age in the early 1980s, so for me, like many in my generation, the Star Wars trilogy represented something more than a great series of movies. It was an archetypal drama, a modern mythology, as Joseph Campbell famously suggested, brought to life on the Big...The Election, the Republican Party and Twilight of Traditionalism
It has been almost two weeks since an important US presidential election, and there is a lot to reflect on. Some are talking about an historic change in the American electorate. Some are speaking of demographics. Some are telling us that America is still a polarized...Subscribe to THINKING AHEAD Podcast
They pepper-sprayed a parent? Trying to process this response...
“They set up a perimeter around the building.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161
Wow, someone is feeling the pressure...
Prediction: CA boomers will go Republican before they allow upzoning. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-housing-17188515.php
@carter_phipps has a new article in The Developmentalist entitled: Can We Make Governing Great Again? In it, he argues that we have lost our faith in experts in part because we have unfairly shifted the burden of decision making to them.
Read it here: https://developmentalist.org/article/can-we-make-governing-great-again/
