Published on Feb 16, 2011 The theme of the TEDxTucson December 2011 event was “Innovating Our Green Economy. In his talk “The Failure Of Success”, Dr. George Land gives us a brief history of human innovation and talks about the importance of creativity. George Land is an author, speaker, consultant, and general systems scientist with… Read More
I have been recently diagnosed by one of my colleagues as having Avoidant Personality Disorder, a disorder I have felt, but could not put into words, until now. One would have guessed that I would have become irate at my colleague and defensive, but surprisingly, when those three words were utterred I felt liberated: a… Read More
Definition of syndrome
– https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syndrome
In my attempt to understand the root cause of the causes of life destabilisations, several articles synchronistically and serendipitously provided definitive answers yesterday that is consistent with the assertion that violence is an acquired syndrome rather that a congenital defect of our human nature. (Please see: US Defence Secretary Calls on Military to be “Ready” for War Against North Korea. “There are No Risk Free Options”, Army is accepting more low-quality recruits, giving waivers for marijuana to hit targets, War Culture – Gun Culture: They’re Related, and The Psychology of Mass Killers: What Causes It? How Can You Prevent It?.)
The last article was seminal for me in connecting different ideas I have come across over the years in my search for meaning and understanding of the underlying method of this violent madness that pervades every aspect of our society today. What I propose to do is summarise as best as I can in the author’s own words the ideas presented and how they are intimately connected to each other and to provide a neurobiological framework that connects the best neuroscience with the deepest analytical psychology in our toolkits of life appreciation.
Published on Jun 23, 2017 Bernard Lietaer: Economic Justice – Theory to Practice Bernard Lietaer is an expert on monetary systems. He has been Professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium, financial advisor to several Latin American governments, Head of Organization and Electronic Data Processing at the Belgian central bank, manager… Read More
Published on May 7, 2017 Professor Lietaer is one of the architects of the euro. At Bitcoin Wednesday on 3 May 2017, Bernard Lietaer gave this fascinating presentation about money and sustainability and where blockchain technology, Ethereum, smart contracts and cryptocurrencies might fit. Adapted from: https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/sustainability-design-currency/ Here are the slides from his presentation: https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bernard-Lietaer-Money-and-Sustainability-BitcoinWednesday-3-May-2017.pdf Bernard Lietaer Bitcoin… Read More
The passage of Hurricane Irma through the Caribbean has given many of us reason to pause and to reflect on the power of prayer, or lack thereof, to protect some of us from the catastrophic ravages of the storm. Many of us in the Federation are relieved to be spared the full onslaught of the… Read More
Published on Dec 23, 2015 Dr. John McMurtry – University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Canada – explains the causal mechanism for why existence on Earth is now in rapid decline on every level of life-organization. BREAKING OUT OF THE INVISIBLE PRISON: The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: Ten-Point Global Paradigm Revolution – by… Read More
As we enter 2015, the global corporate system deepens and spreads in its eco-genocidal effects. But the dots are not joined in their common cause across domains. Money-value coordinates like gross domestic product (GDP), commodity productivity and stock market indexes are still adopted as the measures of “economic performance” rather than life capital development which is systemically depredated.
Published on Oct 12, 2016 Dr. John McMurtry decodes the Ruling Value Mechanism of the cancer system – right down to exact principles determining its choices and decisions: The Moral DNA of the Cancer Stage of Capitalism. “27 Earths needed by 2050 in a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario:” http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/mora/Public… “My life’s work has been to decode this… Read More
How a life-valued versus money-valued dichotomy makes a world of money-valued indifference to peace, and how the cognitive maps of Carl Jung, Johan Galtung and John McMurtry make a world of life-valued difference to healing that indifference! Have we collectively inherited a money-valued as opposed to a life-valued collective unconscious? Does money-value enable cultural violence… Read More
Source: Holt-LunstadJ, Smith TB, Layton JB (2010) Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review. PLOS Medicine 7(7): e1000316.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
