By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jan 25
At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion.This will be a six month long exploration into what it means to live bioregionally, how to create the conditions for collaboration around the regeneration of vital ecosystems, and what you can do locally to contribute to restoring health to the Earth as a whole. Join us for the very affordable membership fee of $49 per year (or $5/month) to participate in this powerful opportunity.Our mission is to support learning exchanges among bioregions as we coordinate efforts
At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion.This will be a six month long exploration into what it means to live bioregionally, how to create the conditions for collaboration around the regeneration of vital ecosystems, and what you can do locally to contribute to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jun 24
This is an essay written on June 8, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.Let me begin by acknowledging those who came before me. The runner-up for a 1 billion euro grant from the European Union nearly a decade ago was FuturICT with their vision for modeling complex social systems to avoid (or manage) future economic collapses. So I am not the first person to propose that a massive effort is needed to
This is an essay written on June 8, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.Let me begin by acknowledging those who came before me. The runner-up for a 1 billion euro grant from
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jun 24
This is an essay written on June 4, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 3 here.Last week I published a 10-page essay arguing that my own life’s work cannot possibly succeed — in the hope that it would be taken up as a “grand challenge” for others to prove wrong. Astute readers will note the hidden pathway that resolves this seeming paradox. For the only way to prove me wrong is to actually build a rigorous
This is an essay written on June 4, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 3 here.Last week I published a 10-page essay arguing that my own life’s work cannot possibly succeed — in the hope that
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Feb 24
People who have escaped cults all tell a similar story. That story starts with a desire to belong, coupled with a desire for purpose. Strong familial and social bonds are generally preferable to shaky relationships, isolation, and the feeling of being an outcast. Likewise, feeling like one’s life lacks any meaning or purpose is a recipe for anxiety, depression, or even madness. If you talk to people who have escaped cults, they all tell you that they didn’t set out to join a cult—the cult set out to prey on them, offering to fill the voids that we must all
People who have escaped cults all tell a similar story. That story starts with a desire to belong, coupled with a desire for purpose. Strong familial and social bonds are generally preferable to shaky relationships, isolation, and the feeling of being an outcast. Likewise, feeling like one’s life lacks any meaning or purpose is a recipe for anxiety, depression, or
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Mar 23
Reflections on my conversation with Andrew CohenContinue reading on Medium »
Reflections on my conversation with Andrew CohenContinue reading on Medium »
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Mar 23
Everything is connected. This simple truth has profound consequences. It should be obvious that all knowledge is connected too — though this is clearly not the case. Simply look at any course catalogue at a university and you will find that knowledge has been divided into disciplinary silos and academic departments.When I went to college back in 1995, I arrived with a full scholarship that allowed me to meander across the course offerings without selecting a major. It was commonplace that a friend would come across me on campus and we’d strike up a conversation. Many a time it was that I
Everything is connected. This simple truth has profound consequences. It should be obvious that all knowledge is connected too — though this is clearly not the case. Simply look at any course catalogue at a university and you will find that knowledge has been divided into disciplinary silos and academic departments.When I went to college back in 1995, I arrived with a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 May 22
This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some hope that this time it will be different, that this shooting will heighten a social pain-point – unstable young men equipped with weapons of war – sufficiently to transcend political polarities. In this episode I ponder: America’s enneatype, frontier culture, “traditionalism with guns” Integrating the MSNBC and FOX News worldviews Recognizing budding criminality Matthew Yglesias’s positivity blowback How about the first part of the second amendment? The ever-widening circle of moral consideration What our grandchildren will know
This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some hope that this time it will be different, that this shooting will heighten a social pain-point – unstable young men equipped with weapons of war – sufficiently to transcend political polarities. In this episode I ponder: America’s
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 May 22
This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some hope that this time it will be different, that this shooting will heighten a social pain-point – unstable young men equipped with weapons of war – sufficiently to transcend political polarities. In this episode I ponder: America’s enneatype, frontier culture, “traditionalism with guns” Integrating the MSNBC and FOX News worldviews Recognizing budding criminality Matthew Yglesias’s positivity blowback How about the first part of the second amendment? The ever-widening circle of moral consideration What our grandchildren will know
This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some hope that this time it will be different, that this shooting will heighten a social pain-point – unstable young men equipped with weapons of war – sufficiently to transcend political polarities. In this episode I ponder: America’s
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Mar 22
The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fluidity, particularly among young people. I place it in the context of the stage transformations of sex and gender through history, and even get a little personal. I hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman The post Gender Fluidity: Fruitful and Fanatic appeared first on The Daily Evolver.
The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fluidity, particularly among young people. I place it in the context of the stage transformations of sex and gender through history, and even get a little personal. I hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman The post
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Mar 22
The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fluidity, particularly among young people. I place it in the context of the stage transformations of sex and gender through history, and even get a little personal. I hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman The post Gender Fluidity: Fruitful and Fanatic appeared first on The Daily Evolver.
The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fluidity, particularly among young people. I place it in the context of the stage transformations of sex and gender through history, and even get a little personal. I hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman The post