Category: Future Positive

Steven Van Smith writes in response to Dee Hock’s Understanding the Industrial Age: “I agree with Hock’s assessment of reductionist and mechanistic thought. Cartesian duality has made ethics, and philosophy problematic.  […]

Timothy Wilken Responses Reader Steven Van Smith writes in response to Trust and True Community: “With reference to Arthur Noll’s  comments on tolerance,  I find that tolerance is the unconditional […]

Dee Hock I have long puzzled where mechanistic organizational concepts so wasteful of the human spirit and destructive of the biosphere originated, and why we are so blind to their […]

My Opinion Bill Ellis September 11 marks the end of the nation-state and the beginning of a fully globalized world.  As we all move through the rubble of WTC and […]

A Gorilla’s Version of The Meaning of Life (And Why We Should Listen) a review by Reason Wilken Imagine this scene: A man is sitting in the dimly lit office […]

by Reason Wilken In Barry Carter’s recent book entitled “Infinite Wealth”, a unique model for wealth creation is presented. Carter challenges current capitalistic ideals and offers up a more positive […]

Win Wenger writes: “The fact that declining civilizations fail to solve their problems, which Toynbee attributed to other causes, might very well be attributed instead to that very tendency to […]

Timothy Wilken As air travel comes to a screaming halt with the big time arrival of terrorism in the United States, maybe it’s time to give up commercial air travel. […]

by Reason Wilken As the initial shock from these terrible events of the past ten days begins to wear off, we are beginning to ask the question “What next?” The […]