Timothy Wilken CRISIS – The Chinese word for crisis is written by joining two ideograms together. These two ideograms, when joined together, make up the Chinese word crisis. When these […]
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”Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly right now.” -Buckminster Fuller
Possessions are not necessarily property
Timothy Wilken The possession of an object does not mean that the possessor has a moral or rational claim to ownership of the object. The political, economic, and social structures […]
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David Korten writes: “Having reached the limits of an Era of Empire humanity is now compelled to make a conscious collective choice to live into being a new human Era […]
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an interview with David C. Korten by Sarah Ruth van Gelder A few jaws dropped among the young activists at a training camp outside Seattle where preparations for the WTO […]
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Jonathan Rowe My wife grew up in what western experts call, not without condescension, a “developing” country. The social life of her village revolved largely around a tree. People gathered […]
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Timothy Wilken community –> commUnity –> Common Unity We humans must become much more efficient and economical. As a synergic scientist, my focus is on finding solutions that work for Humanity […]
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Timothy Wilken John and Bob, two friends from the city, were hiking in the wilderness. They both were new to hiking and so as newbies often do stumbled into trouble. John had […]
Continue readingA Comment and Reply – Different Finances for a Different World
Timothy Wilken A reader named Mark comments: “I hate false originality. With this thesis, his essay should have been full of references to at least F.A. Hayek, Michael Rothschild, and Nelson […]
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Economist Wayne Perg writes: “Human evolution is reaching a breakpoint as the rate of change accelerates to the point that machine-model organizations with their static processes are becoming nonviable. A […]
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Timothy Wilken David C. Korten writes: “The following thought experiment frames the problem before us and the essential needs a planetary system of living economies must address. “Six billion people […]
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