Futures Thinking for Posterity
This distinction emerged when trying to share WayFinder with Tom Greco on 8/15/14 in Bisbee, Arizona. What follows throughout this essay is my (Larry’s) interpretation of WayFinder – as a type of model – for which Alan Yelsey’s version is but one example. Alan Yelsey claims his Wayfinder model is (1) a process starting small…
Continue ReadingThere are few certainties (if we ignore the laws of physics); but one forecast is 100% accurate: Larry has a short time remaining to contribute to influencing the future of Humankind/Gaia. Nuet, as an active process hosted in Larry’s mind/brain will also no longer be available. Only LJV, my label for the traces of semiotic…
Continue ReadingScientists with Arctic expertize forecast climate change so rapid as to lead to humankind extinction in a few decades, possibly even sooner. In scientific parlance, this outcome “has a finite/real probability” – a meaningful possibility. The probability, although not accurately quantifiable, is large enough to activate our highest survival alert system. Such knowledge has led…
Continue ReadingCLAIM: Collectively we currently lack the requisite competencies to learn/organize to meet our challenges. So long as we continue trying to act, assuming all we need to do IS DO, with no significant learning/organizing about organizing/learning, we are unlikely to succeed. UPLIFT is based on the premise that we can’t organize as we need to…
Continue ReadingThe primary danger of an econo-centric society is that it projects the actions of every entity (person to corporation) onto the flat plane of money & finance. All the wonderful complexity and beauty is wiped out, to enable efficiency for accountants. It also enables elites to control. Persons no longer think or act in terms…
Continue ReadingDENIAL The primary denial today is not about human driven climate change, but the intuitive/emotional deep denial that we are in a very critical crisis: a denial of “reality”. This includes myself. My conceptual/rational mind is fully aware of the dangers (and opportunities), but my mammalian self can’t accept it. I speculate that…
Continue ReadingTHE GREATEST MYSTERY STORY I don’t “brood over the Dark Side”, although it may appear so as many of my post are about “what is happening”. My emotions may be tweaked occasionally. Actually, I am concerned that I am not more “deeply” concerned. There appears to be an asymmetry in how the Dark and Bright…
Continue ReadingRATIONAL vs INTUITIVE RANKING & PREFERENCES RATIONALE The personal phenomena reported below has led Larry to propose a few propositions and speculate on their consequences. This may seem a small contribution to our major concerns and initially may appear not very relevant. Yet, the cWrld of nuet, hosted in Larry, has hundreds of such bits…
Continue ReadingI just returned {July 8, 5pm} from a short 15 minute walk in the local park with Piper, E’s dog. I usually can stand heat better than cold, but the whole time I imagined life in the future after runaway Global Warming. It was unbearably HOT! My thoughts were on a deeper denial, than the…
Continue ReadingRecently I had a cascade of insights that resulted in new relationships forming between some major ideas and a great increase in the significance of a set of conceptual schemes. To me, the significance of these insights, about better human futures, ranks with my emergence/transformation distinction, UPLIFT, and societal metamorphosis insights. I recognize that you…
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