ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #3 – Storytelling (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 5)
In this post, I challenge ChatGPT 4o to imagine how the Community Catalyst Program it recommended (in my prior blog conversation on …
Truth and the dance of fact and story (Sense-Making Part 7)
Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But …
My Growing Taboo Awareness (…for Wise Democracy)
Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …
Making Democracies Worthy of the Name… and More
Democracy is rule of, by and for the people. There are many ways to try doing that. This message looks at a …
Twenty years ago today….
Back in 1998-2000 I was a major figure in efforts to prepare for possible Y2K disruptions and to use that possibility for …
Introduction to Participatory Sustainability – Part 2
In this post and the previous one , I share the first chapter of my short book PARTICIPATORY SUSTAINABILITY. The book contains …
Can a small citizen deliberation have more impact than a giant one?
Among the many trends I see in my work on democratic innovation I highlight two here, one in Canada, one in the …
Journalistic Curiosity and Some New Powers of the Press
Three different journalistic initiatives all involved a whole country witnessing seriously diverse citizens truly hearing each other and connecting across political divides. Only one …
The fall and rise of truth, trust and society’s capacity for wisdom
What does it mean to live in a “post-truth era”? Is there a broader history and context feeding that phenomenon than just …
Imagine a country imagining its future together. It did!
Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a …