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Mahatma Gandhi. Caricatura de Omar rayo, 1949. Publicada en "20 caricaturas de OMAR RAYO", 1950. Public Domain
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. Gandhi
Moral Imagination
The Global Noosphere
The pursuit of wisdom and democracy
Protecting democracy in the USA
New Agora of Philanthopolis
Boundary-spanning Democratic E-mail Dialogue
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Wising Up to the New Story
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MASSIVE MARKET FAILURES
Photo courtesy Laurie Hogan. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Evelyn De Morgan, Helen of Troy
INCOMMENSURABLE INSTITUTIONAL
The economy cannot be saved: it was all a mirage
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In Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling, Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending
Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer
The myth, of a "tragedy of the commons," no more, says Elinor Ostrom, first woman who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, for explaining how real-life commons work, especially in managing natural resources.
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Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009,
placing his left hand on the same Bible used by President Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861.
Just over 160 years ago,
John Stuart Mill wrote: "It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object," he wrote.
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Advancing the First Principle of Democracy
Social Change Through Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings You Tube Documentary
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LoD Measurements of Excellence
Democracy Papers
Omni Capital
Guiding the Evolution of
Technology of Democracy
Definitions of Democracy
The Story of Stuff
Disaster Capitalism
The Participatory Universe
The Future of Planetary Civilization
Democratic Synergy
Silence is Golden
Interlinked Crises
E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century
Some points on making democracy a way of life
Metaphors for
The Club of Rome, The Predicament of Mankind (1970):
Part-I;
Part-II
A Retrospective Structural Inquiry of the Predicament of Mankind
Prospectus of the Club of Rome
DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS
Indigeneity, an Alternative Worldview (2004)
The Dream
Adam and Eve in Cyberspace
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British Graffiti artist Mohammed Ali and The Problem Everyone loves the idea of democracy - a genuine union of true individuals - but there are very few lovers of democracy -- people devoted to achievement of the democratic ideal who possess knowledge of a Technology of Democracy that offers a viable means to achieve this goal. HO Planetary Dialogues What we witness appears to be an endeavor to extend various fragmented self-interest spaces, through a search of common interests. Maybe this represents a slow, glacially slow, and seemingly unconscious attempt to break the hold that the idea of nation-state has taken; it has full dominance now over our minds, over our ability to conceive of other new ways of establishing larger and wider social bonds. For the moment, no evolutionary leap seems to be in the making in this field. Nevertheless, we are forced to conclude that the introduction of ecological balance into our normative scheme requires that the notion of social bonding be viewed as transcending the idea of nation and extending to the planet as a whole. H. Ozbekhan, Passages from, Toward a General Theory of Planning , in PERSPECTIVES OF PLANNING 47-155 (OEDC Report, Jantsch ed. 1968); explained in A.N. Christakis, A New Policy Science Paradigm, FUTURES, Dec 1973; applied in Ozbekhan, The Future of Paris, in ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS SERIES A, at 287, 523 (1977)The Ultimate Purpose
To advance a shift in the global paradigm illustrated by the
LoD VALUES TRANSFORMATION MATRIX, Wising Up to the New Story The 21st century is about a completely new orientation on human character and human endeavor that is emerging right now, explains Muhammad Yunus, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, founder of Grameen Bank for the poor, in his book Building Social Business 202 (2010). In a world of multi-dimensional people everything changes. In this framework, success will be measured by the contribution one makes to the well being of the world. | |
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