My five items are not hierarchical, in that each is as crucially important as part of the whole – I arbitrarily listed them in that order. What my do though is challenge in an uncompromising way the major assumptions we have for living in a modern technological world. All the Read more
“What you’re doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future” Ken Robinson. I spent the last few posts discussing a probable history of our modern destructive ‘Taker’ worldview. I’ve had people come up and shake their heads after Read more
First, since globally we use the Gregorian civil calendar (despite many other types of calendars used locally around the world) a Happy New Year to all my readers. Secondly, my worldviews commentary was sidetracked for a few weeks with my Ishmael discussion to frame our modern problems from a historic Read more
Dreamers are those that can find their way by starlight and moonlight, and their joy is to see the dawn before the rest of the world. Adapted from an Oscar Wilde quote. Continuing the Taker-Leaver Discussion from the last three posts. To sum it up, the innovation of the Taker Read more
Continuing the Taker-Leaver Discussion from the last post. In his books, Daniel Quinn continues this dialogue much further, but the point being made is that the Taker mindset is now part of a society that produces excess food and of many kinds, so that no one has to be disappointed Read more
I am continuing my overview of an end of semester college lecture from a Worldviews course I taught using the Ishmael stories by Daniel Quinn as part of the explanation of our modern views on scarcity and abundance. It’s also a story of why we believe in scarcity and competition Read more
One individual apple seed creates a mature tree that can literally produces hundreds of apples each year. Abundance is normal in nature. Only we humans believe in scarcity. So how did we come to this belief? When I lectured in my worldviews class, I finished the class on a lecture Read more