ARE WE ALL ON THE TITANIC ?

The other evening, at a newly discovered restaurant (very close to home – but discovered online) we were enjoying a fantastic meal, while a guitar/singer and saxophone played, and I was at peace. WHEN, I had a disturbing thought: This is just like it was for those on the Titanic. No Worries. Fun Moments. Our…

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Query: ARE WE ALL CRITICALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL ? – draft

Query: Are we all critically dysfunctional, relative to our needs to perform optimally facing our Crisis-of-Crises and Abrupt Catastrophic Climate Change? To put it another way: Does each of us need to change significantly? Or: Must all humans migrate to new settings and communities supporting/enabling/augmenting/facilitating (seafing) new life/work/play-styles? There are many types of dysfunction, and…

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FAMILY revisited

Here unfolds the conceptual scheme of “family”, by nuet to set the context for an analysis of Larry’s relationship to “family”. Posit: FAMILY is the most important entity for biological survival for mammals, primates, and early humans. Posit: FAMILY is the primary entity exhibiting mutual aide between members. Genetic relationships are dominant, but not required….

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CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY IS A FAILURE

I am familiar only with the governments in the USA, and know that some governments in other nations are better in providing some some services than in the USA. No governments are omnipotent. Today, economic systems are often the most dominant; but neither are they omnipotent.  All persons function within a network of Societal Systems,…

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PARADOXES FOR UPLIFT – rough draft, a start

RATE OF CHANGE, DEGREE OF CHANGE When the UPLIFT proposal calls for a rapid & significant uplift (in the distribution) of cognitive/emotional/performance competencies in the global human population in the period of a decade – it is usually automatically rejected as impossible. Human change takes a long time, often many generations – history informs us….

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CREATING HUMANITY — rough draft, a start

To survive the climate catastrophe “we” must create Humanity. Who are “we”? I call “we”, humankind [the social/societal system composed of human persons interacting with each other and living/working/playing/loving on/in/with “humankind constructed things” and Gaia]. Humanity is a term I reserve for the human system when most humans are functioning in harmony in analogy with…

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