me, along with the codes, regulations, and standards to
effectively operate a seamless transport, communications, and energy grid that will stretch
from the Irish Sea to the doorsteps of Russia by midcentury. Asian, African, and Latin
American continental political unions are also in the making and will likely be the premier
governing institutions on their respective continents by 2050.
In this new era of distributed energy, governing institutions will more resemble the workings
of the ecosystems they manage. Just as habitats function within ecosystems, and
ecosystems within the biosphere in a web of interrelationships, governing institutions will
similarly function in a collaborative network of relationships with localities, regions, and
nations all embedded within the continent as a whole. This new complex political organism
operates like the biosphere it attends, synergistically and reciprocally. This is biosphere
politics.
The new biosphere politics transcends traditional right/left distinctions so characteristic of
the geopolitics of the modern market economy and nation-state era. The new divide is
generational and contrasts the traditional top-down model of structuring family life,
education, commerce, and governance with a younger generation whose thinking is more
relational and distributed, whose nature is more collaborative and cosmopolitan, and whose
work and social spaces favor open-source commons. For the Internet generation, “quality of
life” becomes as important as individual opportunity in fashioning a new dream for the 21st
century.…
l economists argued that every individual is free to the extent he or she can pursue their individual self- interest in the material world. Freedom, in the rational mode, is the freedom to be autonomous and independent and to be an island to one’s self.
To be free is to be rational, detached, acquisitive, and utilitarian. The role of government, in turn, is to safeguard private property relations and allow market forces to operate, unfettered by political constraints. The conventional American dream is personal opportunity to succeed in the marketplace. The empathic approach to freedom in the emerging Biosphere Age is based on a different premise. Freedom means being able to optimize the full potential of one’s life, and the fulfilled life is one of companionship, affection, and belonging, made possible by ever deeper and more meaningful personal experiences and relationships with others–across neighbourhoods, continents and the world. One is free, then, to the extent that one has been nurtured and raised in a global society that allows for empathetic opportunities at every level of human discourse. The new dream is the quality of life of humanity.…
ciousness, and the mapmakers of the terrain". And as Scandinavia is one of the regions centred on the tipping point to second tier, it's within our potential take on this challenge, "to provide for the rest of the world the kinds of models that the world needs."Don Beck quoting EinsteinThe urgency and level of caring necessary must now be no less than planetary in its scope. It's taken some fourteen billion years for life and consciousness to gain the capacity for self- consciousness, while at the same time the biosphere, which makes life possible, is now threatened. But to generate the quality of solutions and level of moral caring that will be necessary to save the biosphere, society, our education system, and ourselves, we must change the level of our own thinking. It's time to focus our energy and exploration on the inward dimension of what it means to be an evolving human being.…
ble of triggering emotional and imaginative processes in others."
His art gave sensory forms to unperceivable phenomena.
Vasarely came to feel that color and form were linked in that each color and each form should share the same identity. He viewed his abstract art as composed of pure color-form which by its very abstractness signified the world through the limitless associations and responses of the viewer.
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mazon.com. He then made the following comment ...
NO this is not a copy cat of BBC's Planet Earth. This is a scientific program from years of
collecting data from satellites and researchers put their findings all together. You'd be amazed
how much detective work goes into it, such as how 1/5 of the planet's oxygen is seemingly
trapped in the Amazon forest, but travels out via method of rich sentiments dumped into the
ocean and then allowing plankton to regenerate the o2. Just watched 2 hours of this on PBS,
and thinking, if every nookie of earth still remains to be discovered, man's thirst and quest for
knowledge just never ends. You can view this program on PBS website before deciding if to buy.
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r determining the most moral course in any situation.The four basic rules for understanding the four levels are ...
1. Everything in the universe can be assigned to one of the four Levels.
2. You assign things to the correct Level based not on the properties of the thing, but on what that thing values.
3. Everything has its place. Nothing can end up with no Level, though some things do reside in more than one.
4. The Levels have a hierarchical or evolutionary relationship to each other.
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arts would coexist.
Experimental, and with the emphasis on the theoretical, the Bauhaus represented an opportunity to extend beauty and quality to every home through well-designed and industrially produced products and structures.
The Bauhaus style went on to become one of the most influential currents in design, modernist architecture and art, and architectural education and ever since it has had a profound influence upon developments in those spheres, as well as in graphic, interior and industrial design and typography.
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nce that evolves through the
intertwined connection of two worlds: the visible realm above the surface and the invisible
realm below.
The words culture and cultivation originate from practicing this very activity—cultivating the topsoil by deepening the connection between both worlds (e.g., by ploughing).
C. Otto Scharmer - THEORY U: Leading from the Emerging Future
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