Starting on May 1, we are offering our 9-part course, “Becoming Part of the Solution: A Course In Developmental Politics,” taught by Institute President Steve McIntosh, for free. This course is for anyone interested in healing our nation’s culture and addressing the challenges of hyper-partisan polarization, we thought you might want to take advantage of […]
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The Left wants to honor Indigenous wisdom traditions in the wake of colonialism and scientism. The Right wants to defend America’s moral heritage and traditional social norms. What do both have in common? Respect for tradition. What G.K. Chesterton called “the democracy of the dead.” Both see the spiritual impoverishment of mainstream modernist culture, and both
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Here is our second AI avatar video on “Understanding Worldviews.” It provides a basic introduction to cultural worldviews in less than two minutes. The virtual video company would not let us include the details of each worldview in the script, but this short video does describe the basic concept of large-scale value frames. Please check
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Here is our first attempt at an Artificial Intelligence avatar video, titled: “Taking Responsibility for AI” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nij_WWDXHQ The post Taking Responsibility for the Power of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Institute for Cultural Evolution.
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Ten years ago today, February 22, 2013, our nonprofit organization was officially founded by Steve McIntosh and Carter Phipps. We’re deeply grateful to all who’ve helped us create a think tank dedicated to the evolution of culture and consciousness. For those interested in our think tank’s origins, we invite you to watch a video of
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I argue that the Biden administration’s push to mandate the inclusion of “traditional indigenous ecological knowledge” in Federal policymaking opens the door for greater respect and inclusion of “traditional European social knowledge.” Both kinds of traditional knowledge can be respected and safely included by using a liberal approach. But does acknowledging our nation’s crimes against
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The Developmental Alliance is a growing community of people who identify with the emerging developmental perspective on politics and culture. We meet for Zoom conversations every second Wednesday of the month, from4-5:30pm PT / 5-6:30pm MT / 7-8:30 ET. We’d previously kept the group small, but we’re now opening to all who’d like to participate!
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Just published in the Institute for Cultural Evolution’s online political magazine, The Developmentalist, a substantial new article by me: Does Human Nature Evolve? “The key question surrounding the concept of human nature is whether it is mostly fixed or broadly malleable. We know individual people can change and become better. But what about larger populations
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We’re pleased to announce a new article by Institute for Cultural Evolution Senior Fellow Greg Thomas: Considering Deracialization: A Response to Glenn Loury and Clifton Roscoe Read it now on the Institute’s online magazine: The Developmentalist. The post Considering Deracialization appeared first on Institute for Cultural Evolution.
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