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Syntropic World - a new operating system for changemakers with a reverence for all life
June 6th 2025 The problem is not carbon The problem is not carbon The world gathers at tremendous expense to discuss net zero and carbon offsets. The pesky little carbon atoms need to be controlled. The focus, energy, effort and money that goes into actions, be they actions to make a difference or actions to make a distracting noise of apparent difference. The attention is huge. Yet the problem is not carbon. It was never carbon. It is the system itself that says, unless it produces an...
June 5th 2025 Certainty and righteousness are a form of violence Certainty and righteousness are a form of violence I like being right. However, below my rightness and certainty is subtle domination. My rightness and certainty exclude any other possibility, which means your ability to hold a different view cannot exist in my listening. This is what any expression of fundamentalism is. Right at the exclusion of all others. Certainty and righteousness seed violence into existence. Therefore, if...
June 4th 2025 Moral Leadership Moral Leadership Once upon a time, it would have been the end of a political career for one of the most powerful men in the US Senate to wish death and suffering upon a young woman who has stood up to power and genocide since her teens. (Or, one of the great American myths, the right to free speech, which is actually only a right for those in power and has never been a right for the suppressed.) “Hope Greta and her friends can swim.” Tweets Lindsay Graham. As if...