April 7th 2025 Exceptionalism is isolationist Exceptionalism is isolationist Perhaps Liberation Day can be seen as the world being liberated from America. Alan Kohler This is exactly as I see it. The rest of the world unhooking from the teat of America and finding their feet collectively. Bubbles burst. It is law. And America, despite the felon in the white house raging about its history of being raped and pillaged by the rest of the world, is the great modern pillager. Covertly overthrowing...

April 6th 2025 We cannot let a 50-year lag stop us We cannot let a 50-year lag stop us If you are one step ahead, you are a genius. If you are two steps ahead, you are a nutcase. This quote was shared with me this week. I fit the nutcase category. However, I suspect that may be changing as sometimes, when you hang out on the edge for long enough, people begin to join you. My mentor, Buckminster Fuller, discussed the lag time between an idea and its mainstream acceptance. He performed some...

April 4th 2025 Nominating, making promises and keeping them Nominating, making promises and keeping them Nominating – to call or mention by name. I nominate. I name. I nominate to do ‘x’. When we nominate voluntarily, we are choosing without coercion. I choose. The ultimate act of freedom. When we nominate a commitment or promise, it is on us, the nominator, to keep our promise or commitment. Why, then, do we do this and not keep our promise? Why do we sabotage ourselves, our word and our...