Alfred Korzybski defined humans as Time-binders in 1921. The following paper was published in 1924. It is reposted from the European Society for General Semantics. Alfred Korzybski ALL HUMAN knowledge is conditioned […]
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Reposted from The New Farm. Lisa M. Hamilton “Of all the things we have done to the earth, agriculture has caused the most devastation.” It’s a controversial statement, to say […]
Continue readingTime-Binding Ethics
Alfred Korzybski defined humans as Time-binders in 1921. Korzybski explained that the power of Time-binding is to understand—to observe and remember change over time. Our human ability to understand comes from the […]
Continue readingReversing Global Warming
Reposted from the New York Times. Kenneth Chang Suppose that over the next decade or two the forecasts of global warming start to come true. Color has drained from New England’s […]
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A Synergic Thought Experiment … The Human Wisdom Organization “Try to imagine yourself a few years from now. You are in an airplane traveling towards a unique place on Earth. […]
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Natural Gas Crisis
Reposted from Energy Resources Yahoo! Group. Kermit Schlansker At the present time we are sitting on the edge of catastrophe. We are using 22 trillion cu ft of gas/year. Since […]
Continue readingGAIA: The Quiet Revolution
Also see The GAIA Model by the same author. A Manifesto by Thomas I. Ellis, Ph.D. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single […]
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The GAIA Model
Also see The Quiet Revolution by the same author. Thomas I. Ellis, Ph.D. A Heuristic Framework for Generating Interdisciplinary Dialogue on the Global Ecological Crisis The division of academic discourse into separate […]
Continue readingWar is Obsolete
Reposted from the Buckminster Fuller Institute. R. Buckminster Fuller Society neither hears nor sees the great changes going on. Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate […]
Continue readingThe Soul of Capitalism
Reposted from The Nation. William Greider If capitalism were someday found to have a soul, it would probably be located in the mystic qualities of capital itself. The substance begins […]
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