Expanding democratic genius into collective wisdom (Part 1)
Dear friends, While working on my last blog post about Audrey Tang’s work, I was also helping organize and edit a book …
Artificial emergent wisdom? (Artificial Super-Intelligence Part 2)
Prelude: The field of commentary around AI – including chatbots (LLMs), artificial general intelligence (AGI), artificial super-intelligence (ASI), and more – is …
My search for life-serving transformational directions in these times
Dear friends, We are certainly in a time of profound transformation. The competition between worldviews is heating up and the field of ideological …
What are the economics of trauma, healing and enoughness?
My Australian friend Tirrania Suhood recently referred me to an excellent article on economic dynamics that are driving personal, community, national and …
To help our caring give its greatest gifts
Dear friends, Our caring about or for something or someone means they are important to us. We are concerned how things turn …
Pluralism, Plurality, and the Generation of Collective Wisdom
The New Pluralists and Plurality activists are rising to meet the challenges of rapidly increasing social division. They aspire to enhance the …
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 …
Why do we value wise democracy’s “prime directive”?
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the …
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 …
Intercentricity (Part 2b): Examples – From pluralism and education to power and democracy
In my first post on this topic I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In the …