April 8th 2026 Front row seat Front row seat We wonder how men make terrible decisions that do untold damage to millions of people. Yet here we are. A front row seat. Endless television series and documentaries were made about the Second World War. How we arrived there. The choices that were made. The Little Atrocities that were stepped over. (https://syntropic.world/little-atrocities-the-path-from-integrity-to-self-deception-and-bad-business/) But history is only relevant if we learn from...
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April 7th 2026 Then our true work in the world begins Then our true work in the world begins No one knows what will happen in the next second. It is in the second that life changes forever. We say yes. Or no. A phone call comes. Someone dies. Someone is born. Something precious breaks. Living on the very edge, the place of unknowing, is a practice. Few people are comfortable in this space. The unknown is so very frightening to many. We plan our days with rigour, ensuring nothing goes bump in...
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April 6th 2026 On the justification of atrocities On the justification of atrocities At the core of the deepest expression of violence is dehumanisation. The reduction of life to data points, statistics, animals. (Although, as an animal lover, I find this reduction doubly horrific.) The erasure of anything resembling human. The complete disregard for precious life. The desire to starve, break, bomb, rape, oppress, exploit. It speaks to the humans doing the dehumanising as monsters. There is...
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April 5th 2026 Things that are controversial Things that are controversial I don’t want racism to exist. I don’t want genocide to exist. I don’t want apatheid to exist. I don’t want poverty to exist. I don’t want white supremacy to exist. I don’t want ethnonationalism to exist. I don’t want the death penalty to exist. I don’t want war to exist. I don’t want injustice to exist. I don’t want misogyny to exist. All of these, controversial. Oh, precious life. Is this the best of us? My heart is...
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April 2nd 2026 How strong is your Pattern Integrity as a leader? How strong is your Pattern Integrity as a leader? “Effective leaders are individuals who help us overcome the limitations of our own selfishness and weakness and fears and get us to do harder, better, more important things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.” David Foster Most humans I have ever met want to rise to their best selves. We all have aspects of self that need to be stewarded into existence. This is why it is...
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April 1st 2026 Fools are we Fools are we We do not need a day or a morning to be fools. We are fools almost every day. While the sun shines and the wind blows, we turn our backs on nature’s gifts, instead digging deep into humanity’s savings account to fuel the world. We say we are brilliant and innovative, and yet we refuse to invest our brilliance collectively in uplifting access to affordable energy for every human on the planet. Making that dollar is more important. We elect conmen,...
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March 31st 2026 They cheered like children They cheered like children I watched as they cheered. 62 voted for, 48 against. They cheered like children winning entry to a theme park. Ghouls. The head ghoul wore a noose pin on the lapel as he voted. The leader of the country went out of his way to show up to vote yes, taken away for a moment from his killing, bombing and land grab spree. A state that celebrates the death by hanging of a group of people in its way of total domination, with...
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March 30th 2026 The right to exist The right to exist In a world I aspire to, the right to exist is afforded to every human, every creature, our beautiful oceans, rivers, forests and mountains. But rights are never absent responsibilities. Rights and responsibilities are complementary pairs. Left to right, up to down. Rights to responsibilities. To exist as an atom is impossible. There are no single, isolated entities. There is only community and relationship. Without them, without our...
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March 25th 2026 Those who refuse to be silent Those who refuse to be silent Once upon a time, I never gave Israel a thought. It was just another country in the Middle East. Those days are gone. In the last twenty-four hours, I watched Antony Loewenstein’s documentary, The Palestinian Laboratory. You can find it on YouTube. Antony is an Australian Jew and journalist who writes and speaks bravely about how the Israeli Military Industrial Complex is leading the world in weapons that surveil and...
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