What we need to do now is heal the wounds of this life-destructive operating system at all levels, and rebase our global reserve money system on life-capital sequencing. This would help us to transition from a system where self-preservation based on petrodollar recycling supremacy or national security trumps (pardon the pun) life-capital recycling or global security. All of our trade deals and wealth management exercises and rules of engagement can now be rebased and re-coupled on building mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual caring for all life capital – past, present and future. This would then assist us in moving from a petrodollar recycling dictatorship and catalyse the creation of a more democratic, or better yet, a meritocratic world, where the global insecurity of the world no longer exists, and the raison d’être for 1) wars, be it on drugs, cancer, obesity, and terrorism, and 2) inequality-creating wealth management strategies need never rear their ugly heads again.
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I stand corrected: Death is already included in the full life-coherence principle!
“The good life for human beings must be a life that is realizable on earth—it must be a good that accords with our finite, embodied nature. Thus the good for human beings, Noonan concluded, is the free-realization of our defining life-capacities, within the limits that nature and a finite lifespan impose. His current research continues to develop the implications of this materialist ethics. His current book project is examining the existential dimensions of human finitude, defending the life value of human limitations against a naive and potentially destructive technotopianism.”
Keynote Address by University of Guelph University Professor Emeritus John McMurty, entitled “Rationality and Scientific Method: Paradigm Shift in an Age of Collapse” given on March 19, 2008 at the University of Windsor
This paper explains what has long been missing across domains and levels of analysis: (1) the life-blind inner logic regulating contemporary paradigms of “rationality” and “scientific method”; (2) the reasons why these regulators of thought select for unforeseen consequences of ecological, social and economic collapse; and (3) the principle of life-ground consistency which corrects this systemic incoherence of thought regime.
KEYWORDS: academy, collapse, collective choice, full coherence principle, game theory, life and money sequences of value, mechanism, global market, rationality, scientific method, truth
Is the denial of our mortality the root cause of all our maladies?
I deal with suffering, dying and death almost on a daily basis. On my ward rounds with my students at the hospital, I always think to myself or ask my students if the suffering or premature death of this or that particular patient could have been prevented. I have alcoholics being re-admitted over and over again… Read More
A Tale of Two Covenants
Coming off the heels of my blog article last week ‘On Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Grace’, and trying to grapple with the local crime situation, the regional reparation and disenfranchisement issues, and the global climate change and sovereign debt crises, I am coming to appreciate another form of contract that was gifted to us which is crying out to be rediscovered. This contract or covenant can be seen as a special one that is unlimited in its scope and its benefits, and is available to all of us, if we so choose. It complements mankind’s “greatest” invention and is the unseen “big elephant” in the room.
Like finance, it does two simple things, plus more. It acts as a time machine of the past, and a safety net of the present and the future, in that the distilled wisdom of the life-supporting systems within our bodies, among our communities and in our environment can be studied and tapped to help create a more wholesome and healthy world. The fruits of finance over the past 7000 years pales in comparison to the fruits of Nature. This is testified by the billions of years of “research and development” reincarnated over and over again by the unconditional Love bestowed on us by the cells and organs of our bodies, our families and our communities, nurtured and sheltered by the the four basic elements of earth, wind, water and fire. Even more remarkable is the fact that we live in a zero-waste biosphere embedded within a sustainable solar system, galaxy, and supercluster of galaxies which all work harmoniously with each other, testifying to the efficiency and resilience of our universe, as we stand in awe and wonder at the diversity and interconnectedness of it all.
The Empathic Civilization — An Address Before the British Royal Society for the Arts — By Jeremy Rifkin – March 15, 2010
The following address has been reproduced in its entirely as it is the single most important speech that has transformed my worldview and has served as the catalyst for this blog site and my writings. My fervent hope is that you would also be touched and your worldview transformed for the better as mine was.… Read More
