economics are structured in the opposite direction, to promote the growth of production and consumption regardless of their negative impact. How do we surmount this dilemma?
The Solution:
Obviously what's needed is for us, collectively, to stop and think about what we're doing …and to restructure our economics and politics. This is surprisingly easy to do. The Wisdom Council provides a way that a few people can facilitate all the people into the necessary "We the People" conversation. This social invention provides an amazingly simple path with no identifiable risk. But the benefits are immense, including the prospect of:
Involving ordinary people in facing the issues, building their understanding, creating a new shared vision of what "We" want, and designing a widely supported way to get there.
Establishing a new system of thinking … where We the People engage one another respectfully and creatively and provide leadership to governments.
Avoiding wars and international conflicts.
Celebrating and supporting individual and cultural diversity and building the spirit of global community.
Living by human values like trust and service, instead of corporate values like profits and maximizing personal wealth
Dramatically improving the systems by which we live, including education, health care, finance, taxes, justice, and democracy
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as atomized knowledge by dividing it into disciplines, subdisciplines, and sub-subdisciplines—breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances. The trend has serious ramifications. Understanding the nature of knowledge, its unity, its varieties, its limitations, and its uses and abuses is necessary for the success of democracy… We must reform higher education to reconstruct the unity and value of knowledge.[15]
This is not a problem isolated in the ivy towers of universities. It is an acute problem also for all of us, who have personbyte and firmbyte limits, but who also need to understand a world that is rapidly changing due to science, technology, and globalization.
The bio-social-physical you and me are never outside the matrix, but in this scientific and philosophical exercise we seem to stand away, looking down on the matrix from above. So far as we know, no other entity in the universe has achieved this capacity, and it is in this domain that humans are no longer middling creatures of the matrix. Our self-transcendence, realized especially through the progress in science and economics, art and culture, is a super and completely natural emergent phenomena. We come to understand the matrix from the inside out, though the matrix knows nothing of us.[15] V. Gregorian, V., “Colleges Must Reconstruct the Unity of Knowledge.” Chronicle of Higher Education 50(39): B12. 2004.
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he day...some are clever enough to shed the light on the real threats upon us as we’ve allowed them. For someone who has never heard of blockchain technology, the terminology may seem somewhat daunting. However, to be objective and honest, there is nothing at all scary about this stellar technology. [IT] IS an incredibly useful invention of the 21st century that can truly propel us into the fourth revolution.
IF you are a little lost or have a friend who absolutely has no clue about it, then here’s a guide on how to make noobs understand the benefits of blockchain. Before we delve into the benefits and all that jazz, let us first try to understand what blockchain, in its absolute basic form is. That way, it will become easier to understand and explain its many explanations and therefore, its uses.
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es, social calm and liberal democracy, we need to upgrade our meaning making to match the complexity of the world we are creating.
Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it. It contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, religion, science, and self-exploration, all at the same time.
Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a much more complex way. It is a way of strengthening local, national, continental, and global cultural heritage among all and thus has the potential to dismantle the fear of losing one’s culture as the economy as well as the internet and exponential technologies are disrupting our current modes of societal organisation and governance.
Metamodernity will thus allow us to be meaning making at a deeper emotional level and a higher intellectual level compared to today; [IT] will allow us more complex understanding, which may match the com- plexity of the problems we need to solve. Appropriate meaning making is the best prevention against the frustrations that generally lead to authoritarian ideologies and societal instability.
Using metamodernity as the filter through which we see the world and as a template, we can create, among other things, new and appropriate education, pol- itics and institutions for our societies of the 21st century. A VISION such as this may even give hope.
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Added by Michael Grove at 15:31 on December 18, 2019
ments in Kiev certainly have the potential to turn into such a catastrophe, for they are not
just about Ukraine. Just as the Syrian civil war reflects a wider regional struggle between Iran and
Saudi Arabia for political and religious supremacy, Ukraine finds itself the luckless victim of much
bigger forces than its own internal divisions - centuries old East/West rivalries and ambitions.
Ukraine’s disgusting kleptocracy deserves to fail; genuine democracy and rule of law in this
brutalised nation would be an overwhelmingly positive development. Yet there is something
almost Napoleonic about the idealistic fervour with which Europe pursues its eastern ambitions.
That said, the forces that turned the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand into the greatest
conflict in history simply don’t exist today. Despite occasional sabre-rattling, the world is
generally better at muddling along together than it has ever been. The big, intra and inter-regional
conflicts of the last century are unthinkable.
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Added by Michael Grove at 15:48 on February 26, 2014