Culture Culpable There is always a point of view, a particular perspective that is subjective rather than objective, a view from somewhere. My perspective is Canadian, outside of the United States of America, but adjacent, and deeply connected.
Culture The Absolute Discussed Racism and white supremacy are the foundation of the laws of the Dominion of Canada. To fail to recognize and acknowledge this fact is to be ignorant, to be a coward, to be complicit, or to be criminal. I see no other options.
Culture Invitation of Love When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers.… The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly.
Culture Humans This form of communication, they speculated, was all that was necessary to claim the territory for the leader of their group, the human who wears a symbolic circle of purified metal and semi-transparent rocks on its head.
Culture Re:design The tradition of learning through play (from Froebel through Dewey) could harness play for education, because it recognised both the element of learning which is always present in play, and saw education not as a training process, but as the nurturing of the child’s own capacities.
Culture Life and Death To change our minds, to shift our consciousness is to change the world. Once people see reality, they will not be able to unsee it.
Culture Risk Poetry works by contradictions, qualifications by metaphor, wherein there are overlappings, discrepancies, and contradictions. Paradox is related to irony and to figurative language.
Art The Systems View of Life My work in environmental education has convinced me that there’s hardly anything more effective than the arts—the visual arts, music, or the performing arts—for developing and refining our natural ability to recognize and express patterns.
Culture One We are architects of the future. We are growing in influence, capacity, and agency. We are surrendering the illusion of our mastery and domination of nature. We are reconciling with death, our imminent demise, by letting go of fame, wealth, and power.
Culture Shift Recognizing that we are experiencing a shift, how might we collaborate to create an app to daily monitor the shift? Would it be possible to quantify and map the shift in values, perceptions, states of mind, and relationships?
Culture Violation (Content warning: sexual assault and violence.) There is no viable path forward together. If there is any hope for the relationship, the man would need a complete change of heart: admission of a problem, remorse, contrition, a commitment to therapy and behavioural change.
Culture Infinity Living systems seem to manifest a different form of reality that describes a trajectory from simple organic lifeforms to more complex forms with greater capacities for self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-organization.
Culture Pandora’s Box As if money had real value, as if laws were universal ethical principles, as if humans could actually own land and resources as property, and as if the leaders of corporations and governments had any real authority beyond the ability to direct and control the narrative.
Culture World Building The act of visioning and dreaming, and imagining, I think, is something that’s very important in terms of world building and in terms of building alternative structures that address some of the social, cultural, and economic and political issues that we’re facing.
Culture Synchronicity Time, energy, and matter must exist in a constant flow that provides a medium for transformation. Evolution is change. Humans are witnesses to change and we are agents of change.
Culture Community The systems we design, as we are in the process of discovering, have unintended consequences on our biology and the global ecology when human population and activity are amplified through technology at a global scale.
Culture Gravity The existential crises of this moment are revealing the gravity of our situation and our moral dilemma. While we have been busy building the modern world, we forgot to ask essential questions about truth, beauty, and good.
Culture Awakening My attention has been tuned toward a search to discover how I might make the most of the time, energy, and resources that I have had the privilege to experience through this life. Most of my life has been spent, so the urgency is increasing to discover meaning, purpose, and belonging.
Art Inspiration I am inspired by Universe and the iterative design process evident in the evolution of species and the development of human consciousness to perceive the wonder and beauty of the physical world and the complexity of biological and ecological systems.
Culture Regeneration By telling and listening to stories we allow the transition from an old story of separation, domination, exclusion, destruction, and extraction to a new story of wholeness, inter-being, integration, equality, creation, and regeneration.
Culture Present Awareness We are journeying beyond the gates and borders of cloistered imagination to realize a different identity, defined less by national borders and more by interconnected present awareness of future possibilities, a regenerative venture into interbeing, creativity, collaboration, and community.
Culture Ideology The public relations machinery of the Dominion of Canada distracts the population from the actual pursuits of the British Crown and its corporations, founded upon the Doctrine of Discovery, to extract the resources of the colonies and its labourers to secure economic power.
Culture Learned Helplessness We have internalized a sense of helplessness and abdicated our power and our ability to think to celebrities, billionaires, and politicians. This is our moment to take back our power and to reimagine our social architecture.
Culture Pattern The problem with my family of origin is the inability to confront problems. We yell at each other, and someone slams the door and drives off. Then we retreat into silence. The same toxic pattern for my entire life.
Culture Public Relations The British Crown is pathetic in its posturing, public relations, and disinformation campaign to cow its ill-informed population to serve its economic interests. There is no longer any point maintaining any military presence in the colonies. The banks are working just fine.
