A Facebook Friend posted: “I hate modesty, loathe mediocrity, despise humility. They are crutches, an invented virtue for those who have nothing to offer besides how little they have to offer.” I started to write a comment in response, but…
Tag: Evolution
Lost, Found: The MacGuffin Theory
The moment with Charlie at the end of the pilot episode — where he asks his fellow hikers, in response to the French distress signal, “Guys, where are we?” — seems to be the question that launched a thousand theories.…
Lost, Found: An Ongoing Look at the Meaning of a Landmark Television Series
I’d resisted watching Lost for a very long time. Television had become less important in my life, and other things demanded my time. Taking on another hour-long series just didn’t seem wise. I’d hear about it. And what I’d hear…
The Tales of Adam
Tales of Adam Daniel Quinn
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World David Marbury-Lewis
The Book of the Damned
The Book of the Damned Daniel Quinn
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology Gregory Bateson
The New Renaissance
The New Renaissance Daniel Quinn
Forcing the Balance, Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself
This piece began in the Spring of 2002 as an essay that I thought would provide a compelling new understanding of the Star Wars films. After writing more than a dozen versions, I had yet to produce something that met…
Emergent Associates, LLC: Trailblazing Tribalizing
At IshCon Spring 2005, Dr. Howard Ditkoff and Mark S. Meritt gave a presentation on the ideas behind their consulting company, Emergent Associates, LLC. The talk focused on how methodologies and fields like Appreciative Inquiry, complexity science and personality typing…