Gate-Keepers of Knowledge Redundant?
Image via Wikipedia Knowledge is made from information. In the past, information was held in scrolls and tablets…
Month: May 2011
The Power of Concepts.
Unmapped Regions Humanity has a long history of aggression, oppression and competing so we know how to do…
How Can We Live Together? Part III
Believing is Seeing. Until about 500 years ago we all believed planet Earth was at the centre of…
How Can We Live Together? Part II
The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a game developed in the 1950s as an exercise in game theory and military strategy. The…
How Can We Live Together? – Part I
Just as Newtonian physics has created a mechanistic mind-set which we have applied to human interaction, Darwinism has…
From Bystanders to Third Siders.
William L. Ury, co-author of Getting to Yes and long-time conflict resolution expert, has developed an idea and a movement called, The Third…
The Butterfly Effect in Social Action.
When faced with the suffering in the world, most of us don’t believe we have the power to…
Weapons of the Spirit
The day after the Vichy Government in France, made an agreement with the Nazis to hand over all Jewish…
Being ‘Herd’…
Scholars might argue that Edmund Burke never said, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is…