By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
PUTIN IS ACTING MORE “RATIONALLY” THAN IT APPEARS (BUT HE IS JUST ABOUT TO LOSE IT) Much ink has been spilled to gauge the sanity or insanity of the autocratic Russian President. If you listen to some of the more astute analyses out there, it becomes clear that the Russian leadership are in a long-term decline and may feel that their hand is forced in the matter: – If Ukraine joins NATO and the EU, with more than 40 million people switching sides, Russia will no longer be a geopolitical powerhouse. If Russia could add the former Soviet republics, Russia
PUTIN IS ACTING MORE “RATIONALLY” THAN IT APPEARS (BUT HE IS JUST ABOUT TO LOSE IT) Much ink has been spilled to gauge the sanity or insanity of the autocratic Russian President. If you listen to some of the more astute analyses out there, it becomes clear that the Russian leadership are in a long-term decline and may feel that
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“Despite the best efforts over the last century, the educational systems are almost unanimously criticized by all observers as being too dry, too mechanical, too bland, too focused on quantitative results and measures (more on this last point later). They all say that children are playful and curious, but that schooling and education, at least partly, kill that spark. Univocally, commentators ask for a more humanized, sensitive, and person-centric form of education—but from thereon, unsurprisingly, the ideas and analyses begin to differ. The question thus presents itself: “If almost all commentators, educational science scholars, teachers, school principals, philosophers and psychologists
“Despite the best efforts over the last century, the educational systems are almost unanimously criticized by all observers as being too dry, too mechanical, too bland, too focused on quantitative results and measures (more on this last point later). They all say that children are playful and curious, but that schooling and education, at least partly, kill that spark. Univocally,
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“As things stand, the educational systems around the world do not have fully developed mechanisms for continuously updating how education is done in the face of technological disruptions. And, indeed, this is the crux of the matter: The second pathway from the old paradigm of education to the new paradigm involves an active, deliberate, and coordinated effort to make the educational systems not only adapt to the advent of existing technologies, but making them adaptable (and self-adapting) to future disruptions. One of our interviewees, serial entrepreneur and author Tomas Björkman, refers to the acronym VUCA when describing the development of
“As things stand, the educational systems around the world do not have fully developed mechanisms for continuously updating how education is done in the face of technological disruptions. And, indeed, this is the crux of the matter: The second pathway from the old paradigm of education to the new paradigm involves an active, deliberate, and coordinated effort to make the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
From Hanzi Freinacht’s latest article on Medium: “Cultural evolution simultaneously drives forth two interrelated processes of transformation: – More civilized, universal, and non-violent values. – Innocence lost, a more penetrating and revealing gaze and imagination, including a more disenchanting and critical viewpoint. Simply put, as society “advances”, people and their values become less barbaric, more universal and abstract, but also more XXX-rated, more pornographic in every (sexual an non-sexual) sense of the word. As such, even if society escapes the ecological dead-ends of modernity, we are headed both towards a cute and idyllic future of softer and more inclusive values
From Hanzi Freinacht’s latest article on Medium: “Cultural evolution simultaneously drives forth two interrelated processes of transformation: – More civilized, universal, and non-violent values. – Innocence lost, a more penetrating and revealing gaze and imagination, including a more disenchanting and critical viewpoint. Simply put, as society “advances”, people and their values become less barbaric, more universal and abstract, but also
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
RUSSIA MUST BE BEATEN BACK — SO CROWDSOURCE SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE WITHOUT COMPROMISE! Although balanced views of the situation are crucial, and frenzied tunnel-visioned warmongering against Russia may be lethal for all of us, there is very little reason to not take a strong stand for Ukraine in this conflict. The Ukrainian President Zelenskyy asks of the peoples of Europe (and elsewhere) to push our governments in the direction of military, logistical, economic, and humanitarian support, while encouraging more direct citizen action as well. In some strategic countries, like Sweden and Finland, pushing for swift NATO membership may be in
RUSSIA MUST BE BEATEN BACK — SO CROWDSOURCE SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE WITHOUT COMPROMISE! Although balanced views of the situation are crucial, and frenzied tunnel-visioned warmongering against Russia may be lethal for all of us, there is very little reason to not take a strong stand for Ukraine in this conflict. The Ukrainian President Zelenskyy asks of the peoples of Europe
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“In humans, culture constitutes patterns of knowledge that are inherited over generations. This includes such cultural technologies as spoken language, writing, and arithmetic. These technologies, in turn, cannot be learned only by spontaneous imitation and play. The play must somehow be organized and systematized, so that its outcomes of learning will resonate with culture. Education, then, is the naturally occurring tendency to play, albeit extended into a more systematized realm of culture; it is play connected to a larger whole. Education guides play—sometimes at the expense of oppressing its spontaneous expressions, sometimes by successfully harnessing the will to play and
“In humans, culture constitutes patterns of knowledge that are inherited over generations. This includes such cultural technologies as spoken language, writing, and arithmetic. These technologies, in turn, cannot be learned only by spontaneous imitation and play. The play must somehow be organized and systematized, so that its outcomes of learning will resonate with culture. Education, then, is the naturally occurring
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
THE WAR STANDS BETWEEN PETROSTATE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY Russia is the only major country that would actually benefit from climate change in the long term. Or, rather, the same may be true of Canada. A warmer planet is one where the temperate zone on the northern hemisphere would climb further northwards, which would unlock untold areas of agriculturally viable lands within Russia, while making other countries more dependent on its exports. Considering that Russia has fewer large coastal cities, and that it is also too far away from the North Atlantic Gulf stream to feel the effects were
THE WAR STANDS BETWEEN PETROSTATE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY Russia is the only major country that would actually benefit from climate change in the long term. Or, rather, the same may be true of Canada. A warmer planet is one where the temperate zone on the northern hemisphere would climb further northwards, which would unlock untold areas of agriculturally
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
“As the Greta Thunberg movement of school strikes has put on display, the young generation around the world worries about their future in terms of ecological sustainability and the possible collapse of ecosystems and societies. It is not a farfetched question to ask: – What might education and schooling look like if students of life were to feel that going to school (or other corresponding outlets of education), rather than striking, was the best way to activate oneself for a sustainable and ecologically rich future? Viewed from this perspective, the very emergence and persistence of the Greta Thunberg-inspired movements highlight
“As the Greta Thunberg movement of school strikes has put on display, the young generation around the world worries about their future in terms of ecological sustainability and the possible collapse of ecosystems and societies. It is not a farfetched question to ask: – What might education and schooling look like if students of life were to feel that going
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 22
DON’T MISTAKE THE WEST’S SOCIOLOGICAL FAILURES FOR GEOPOLITICAL WEAKNESS NATO and the West has appeared weaker than they really are, geopolitically and economically speaking: with the failures in Iraq, Afghanistan (couldn’t even beat the Taliban, despite magnitudes greater military and economic might), unsuccessful interventions into Syria, a losing grip on influence over Africa, an internally quarreling EU, and internal culture wars leading up to the storming of Capitol Hill last year. However, these failures are largely sociological failures, i.e. failures to understand and manage social and cultural forces, not signs of lacking economic and military prowess per se. Lack of
DON’T MISTAKE THE WEST’S SOCIOLOGICAL FAILURES FOR GEOPOLITICAL WEAKNESS NATO and the West has appeared weaker than they really are, geopolitically and economically speaking: with the failures in Iraq, Afghanistan (couldn’t even beat the Taliban, despite magnitudes greater military and economic might), unsuccessful interventions into Syria, a losing grip on influence over Africa, an internally quarreling EU, and internal culture