Building the New Sustainable World Now – 27

“No one before us has ever witnessed what we almost take for granted today. If only we would change our value system to place emphasis on cooperation, sharing, caring, and compassion rather than competition and the winner-takes-all mentality” Blogger Teresa Writer.    I was driving to the store the other Read more

Building the New Sustainable World Now – 9 

If you are focused on anger and feelings of disgust at hierarchical behavior, and endlessly watch the mainstream media talk about it all – whichever polarized perspectives you watch – then ‘they’ have got you doing just what ‘they’ want you to do. If ‘they’ have you all riled up Read more

Becoming different – Part 6: Coming to Terms with Artificial Intelligence (AI) – The Social Credit System?

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals.  The combination is unstable and self-destroying” Arthur C. Clarke.  When I was teaching my university environmental Studies introduction class, many of the students named it the ‘doom and gloom’ class because of Read more

Becoming different – Part 5: Coming to Terms with Artificial Intelligence – Overview

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” This is a great line from the movie, The Usual Suspects.  Without giving the story line away, it is a great story about how people get bamboozled.  Today, the mainstream media and the corporate systems Read more

Thinking Anew – Part 2 – Awakening to do what is right!

I was talking with a group of supposed environmentalists about a future sustainable society, and what struck me was how they kept going back to talking about a centralized global system to make everyone do the ‘right’ thing, namely being sustainable.  I remember feeling a tad stunned that they felt Read more