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Syntropic World - a new operating system for changemakers with a reverence for all life
April 3rd 2025 Everything is terrorism except terrorism Everything is terrorism except terrorism This is the boy-cried-wolf statement of our times. Everything is terrorism, except actual terrorism. You know, when a country goes in and deliberately targets aid workers driving clearly marked aid vehicles and then seeks to hide the evidence of their murder by burying it, that kind of terrorism. But setting a car on fire, joining student protests against genocide, and, unfortunately, having...
April 1st 2025 Betraying your mission to save your bacon Betraying your mission to save your bacon We watch this happening everywhere. The mission of a University is to be open-minded, exploratory, co-learning, research-based, big-picture thinking, challenge thinking, stretch, innovate, and emerge. Not bending the knee to the money, finance and the lobbyists. And as they do this, throwing a select group of students under the bus, or in the case of the USA, onto a bus to a detention centre for...
March 31st 2025 Gravity and the Pedestal Gravity and the Pedestal Putting people on a pedestal, no matter how high the pedestal, has only one ending. We can admire someone. We can be inspired by them. They can mentor us. But to place them above us diminishes everyone, the person placed on the pedestal and those looking up and bowing down. This is in distinction to reverence. To revere. A deep and abiding respect for. One of the intentions I set for a future intimate partnership before I met...