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 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
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
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…