Margaret J. Wheatley I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to […]
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This article is reposted from the Energy Bulletin. Toby Hemenway Over ten years ago my wife and I moved to the country. One of our many reasons for leaving the […]
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This is the fourth in a series. See: The Unvarnished Truth, Critique of Civilization FAQ., and The Critique of Civilization Changes Everything. Ran Prieur The most naive way of thinking about the future, […]
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I found this article by googling for human goodness. Interesting read by an good human. Margaret J. Wheatley We have a great need to rely on the fact of human […]
Continue readingThe Critique of Civilization Changes Everything
This is the third in a series of provocative articles. It presumes that you have read The Unvarnished Truth and Critique of Civilization FAQ. There is something here to offend everyone. I […]
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From Flemming Funch. The following article was written in France in about 1953. It is the story of Elzéard Bouffier, a very special human who lived his life as if it mattered, and […]
Continue readingThe Synergism Hypothesis
Synergy means working together, operating together as in Co-Operation, laboring together as in Co-Laboration, acting together as in Co-Action. The goal of synergic union is to accomplish a larger or […]
Continue readingCritique of Civilization FAQ
In followup to The Unvarnished Truth. Ran Prieur What do you mean, “critique of civilization”? Mostly I mean putting human civilization in context, seeing it from the perspective of the world that […]
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A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dr. N. Arthur Coulter is a synergic science pioneer. He began searching for […]
Continue readingThe Abolition of Work
Flemming Funch writes: In 1985 Bob Black wrote a brilliant essay called “The Abolition of Work”. A monumentally brilliant manifesto, in my opinion. Suggesting, as it says, that we abolish […]
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