Posted in community development, urbanology on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
High gas prices threaten to drain small towns’ populations
By DONALD BRADLEY
The Kansas City Star
The expected exodus from small towns, said Don Macke, a widely considered authority on rural economics and head of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship in Lincoln, Neb., will be far more profound than the gradual erosion that has been going on since […]
Posted in poetry, web media on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in urbanology on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Reposted. New York Times today: Rethinking the Country Life As Energy Costs Rise
Though Mr. Boyle finds city life unappealing, it is now up for reconsideration.
“Living closer in, in a smaller space, where you don’t have that commute,” he said. “It’s definitely something we talk about. Before it was ‘we spend too much time driving.’ Now, […]
Posted in critical culture, humor, web media on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
George Carlin, truth teller.
The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. […]
Posted in geography on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
From June 10, 2007: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs. From the always mind boggling strangemaps blog.
Posted in new paradigms, organizational development, web media on Jun 17th, 2008 No Comments »
C. Otto Scharmer speaks here of Theory U. It’s a terrific book even if it contains too many non-nutritional exhortations. Coming out of the various vectors of constructivism, integralism, and, modern adult learning theory, both Theory U. and the earlier Presence (Senge, Scharmer, et al.,) both demand and deserve attention and study.
Posted in Gregory Bateson, a-ha!, consciousness, philosophy, self-reference on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Favorite droll turn on cogito ergo sum*: I think therefore I think I am. Possibly better: I think therefore I think I am thinking.
Best:
You are your epistemology. (Gregory Bateson)
I’ve always stuck with John Lilly’s:
My beliefs are unbelievable.
In this context, why not: “My thoughts are unthinkable.”
???
* But I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing […]
Posted in Alan Watts, audio snippets, esotericism, tantra on Jun 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Alan Watts:Transcending Duality
Posted in Rumi, sufism, web media on Jun 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Reader: Coleman Barks
Posted in critical culture, philosophy, politics on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
This ideological approach is needed to legitimate predominant relations of domination (obtaining primarily among a ruling elite of experts, professionals, politicians, etc., and a well-administered citizenry) as being neutral and natural. Not only does this framework require automatic dismissal of all other modes of political organization, but also discrediting ideas perceived to be their ideological […]
Posted in Wilber, critical culture, integral, philosophy on Jun 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The following could serve as the subject of an assignment: What’s wrong at the level of assumptions found in the following argument?
I’ve provided some helpful italicizing.
At the second gathering of the teachers of Integral Spiritual Center, Patrick Sweeney famously asked Ken Wilber, “what can we do to stay out of Appendix III of Integral Spirituality?” […]
Posted in teaching cartoons on Jun 1st, 2008 No Comments »
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A mentor emphasized: “Beware of the agenda behind the agenda.” This advice has stood the test of time.
Note my ol’ nickname has been added over the dog. This does capture my mildly passive-aggressive puppie nature.
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