The campaigns for the 2014 elections in the USA reveal a crying need for UPLIFT, a program to increase the competencies of the whole population- both “educated” and “uneducated”.  There wasn’t a shred of attempt to “educate” the population by either party. What we witnessed was the broadcasting of emotionally loaded messages designed to instill…

We will all be refuges from civilization, needing to migrate to a new humanity – the societal butterfly.  Those in refuge camps and those challenging poverty in the slum rings (favelas) surrounding many cities on Earth are populations ripe for uplift. Hear Stewart Brand on Squatter Cities. Where to place those flooded out by rising…

Websites are like spaces, areas where we “walk” our attention, perceive and act (modify the semfield – the structure of individual sems and their varied relationships).  We need to develop an attitude towards some websites similar to what we give to “home” and “country”.  We value them and return to them and preserve-but-improve them. Structures…

Proposition <-LINK: With humankind, the domain of information is liberated from the domains of matter/energy, and conventional biology. In context with this proposition I propose a corollary proposition: Human cognitive/conceptual/emotional diversity (individual differences in profiles of cognitive/conceptual/emotional competencies) is VAST.  It is also relatively independent of neo-Darwinian selection, and may be rapidly increasing. Humankind can…

Large, complex, dysfunctional societal systems cannot be transformed from within. [There is a threshold of size, complexity, and dysfunction for societal systems whereby incremental changes for improvement of components (systems/holons) cannot successfully lead to the transformation of the whole system to be significantly more functional (serving all components of the system, well).] Knowledge by any…

This blog post started as a comment to a blog post by Glisten, but then grew like Topsy I feel that my shift in thinking about strategy and scaffolding may be significant. Thank you, Glisten. Your “concise revelation” catalyzed a (minor but significant) shift in my own perspective on the role of individual humans and…

How and Why “Conscious” Festivals Need to Change Humburto’s post is an excellent promo for UPLIFT and the need for Societal Metamorphosis. The image with Bucky says it all: TransFORMation is Imposssible. BUT, except for the good suggestion of funneling money for Burning Man into crowd-sourcing for a more relevant project, he states OBJECTIVES with no…

I, Larry – the author of this post – am quite dysfunctional relative to what I should/might be doing. If, in the following, I point out dysfunctions of others, it is not in any way to accuse or blame them. We are all doing what we can do due to circumstances. My hope is that…

CYBERTEAMS – BRIEFLY     Cyberteams have a balanced mix of synchronous and asynchronous interaction. Decades ago I called this RT/DT  for RealTime/DelayedTime. Cyberteams have dense, synchronous, interaction between members, online (with as much “presence” as possible) and “Spatially Contiguous F2F” or “In The Same Room” (ITSR).  Some cyberteams will spend days to months living together,…

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…