Cultural Development at 31st Week of Democracy

Cultural Development at 31st Week of Democracy

Are we past the 2nd Trisequester yet?

Or still in the fetal position?

We've Heard That One Before ... "Japanese Yen Heading For Hyperinflation"

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)


Yet it's still rather breathtaking to realize how many don't grasp that the bad joke is on themselves. And also very sad.  Only thing hyper inflated is the criminally vicious humor shared by both victims and perps.

"Japanese Yen Heading For Hyperinflation"

Is it immoral to take candy from your own babies ... and their lunch (and diapers, and toys, and roof ... and future) too? When is enough too much?


The problem.

(Note that he even helped turn it in.)

Next: one step to understanding how to fix it.





That and an introduction to Ben Franklin, Abe Lincoln and Marriner Eccles.

Is that asking too much?

If more citizens orient to current reality by age 10, maybe then we could start a much needed national discussion about Policy Space and Policy Agility. So far most citizens respond to that request with a blank stare, like a deer in the headlights.  That's not gonna cut it ..... in the struggle to have our Democracy and use it too.

Luddites Tout Luddite Internet

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)



Luddites Tout Luddite Internet

'Nuff said? Where have you heard that refrain before? Another variant of the constantly declining "Austerian Toolkit?"

Slow down ... the most commonly heard LAST MESSAGE heard from Old Generations .... as their newly spawned generations rapidly recede into the future.

Every generation, the new crop of humans leaves a "breadcrumb" signpost engraved with 4 characters - "WHY?"

There's never yet been an a meaningful answer. So no reason to slow the pace of cultural evolution yet.

Izabella Kaminska — Striving for social de-evolution

I don’t think there’s anything stopping us from achieving the top future. The only thing that gets in the way is if people fail to understand that we can’t have the perks of technology without the adjustment in the social hierarchy that comes with it.

Any attempt to preserve the status quo is to de-evolve and destroy.

It leads us to Back to the Future II, to Alphaville, to Tank Girl, to the Empire in Star Wars and so on…

Dizzynomics
Striving for social de-evolution
Izabella Kaminska

The agendas of the reactionary right versus the radical left. The center? Meh.

If This Is What Gets People Elected To Congress Today, Then We're In Deep Trouble

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Rep. Steve Southerland believes in hard work, finds it.

Hard as this guy works, he'd NEVER be mistaken for one of the Founders who wrote the Constitution.

If this is what gets people elected to Congress today, then we're in deep shit. OCD-constrained savant pops to mind more often than statesman while reading this article. Does that impression reflect the realities of the electorate we've developed?

All may not be lost. To his credit he does come right to the crux eventually, saying that Congress is "a mile wide & an inch deep." Yet he then TURNS AWAY from acknowledging & shaping that reality in the only direction that matters. Not the right guy for the job, so far.

And this is all about one and one issue only, of the thousands Congress is supposed to collectively DELIBERATE and form a more perfect union from. Several hundred one-trick ponies does not agile policy, nor an agile nation make.

A Congress in denial. There's no future in it.

Tribal councils did better, over 500 years ago.

Ours is a well known task, with well known solution guidelines. It's astounding that we've trained ourselves away from scaling up agile extensions of methods already known to work.

Martin Ford — The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future

Free Book in PDF.

The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future
Martin Ford
(h/t Andy Blatchford via email)

2012 TED talks to focus on shaping the future — AFP

Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a global movement for a better world.

The gathering kicks off Monday in the Southern California city of Long Beach with a roster of 1,350 attendees including Internet heavyweights, Hollywood celebrities, scientists, and other notables.

Tickets to the sold-out event cost $7,500 each, but captivating 18-minute “talks” for which the conference is renowned are made available free online at ted.com and have a growing worldwide audience.

This year’s “Full Spectrum” theme refers to a range of presentations “from dazzling technology and leading-edge science to the richest veins of human creativity and interconnection.”While topics at TED and the way it connects with the world have changed with the times it remains devoted to “ideas worth spreading.”

“I have a fundamental belief in the power of ideas,” TED curator Chris Anderson told AFP.

“Powerful ideas, shared the right way, lead to action. Period.”

TED presenters are known for combining dizzying brain power with mind-tickling spins on concepts as weighty as climate change and the devastation of sea life or as playful as dance and music.

Read it at Raw Story
2012 TED talks to focus on shaping the future

by Agence Presse-France

“Powerful ideas, shared the right way, lead to action. Period.” Sounds like a venue for MMT.