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Werner Erhard's Enlightenment
Somewhere on the Golden Gate bridge in 1971, Werner Erhard woke up. He would go on to found est and Landmark and change an entire culture
A Prayer for Wisdom in a Time of Unravelling
Cultivating the wisdom to hold ourselves, each other, and the world with care; to make the choices to give our children and all life a flourishing future.
On value misalignment, ecological crisis and the need for wisdom (Wisdom, Value and Choice Part I)
Our current systems misalign value creation with compensation, leading to ecological crises and flawed measures like GDP. But how do we correct them? In one word: wisdom.
Truth is a mountain with no top
But we can still sense up (righter) even if we cannot find a summit (ultimate truth). It is a relativist fallacy to conflate no perspective being final with all perspectives being equal.
So you want to create social infrastructure to rebuild the better future world when this one breaks down ...
Fellowship and spiritual warriorship will be key whether you want to seed a better future or just survive the crisis
Why Enlightenment Alone Won’t Save Us (and that's ok)
Learning from bad actors in the Buddha’s Sangha about the limits of Love
An introduction to a Politics of Being
Aka an Ontological Politics or a Politics of a Second Renaissance. Starting from the question "Why do we need a new kind of politics?"
Trump, Neo-fascism and the Crisis of Modernity
Fascism arose in response to the crisis of modernity. With modernity again in crisis fascism may be on the rise again.
Some nice data tracing the rise of woke-ness and postmodern values
From two nice articles by David Rozado