Brilliant Jamie. A lot now, with this upcoming phantom power of voting, are polarizing, starting to pick sides. Friendships, already being tested. Everybody in the States right now, needs to take a chill pill. Whichever side one casts a vote (also ridiculous - two choices, like 1 or 0, Pepsi or Coke), it must be looked at calmly and simply, that each citizen is picking their own version of - the lesser of two evils. Because ........ except for the fanatical, everyone knows both sides are playing out a script. A script that no one wants implemented. A huge percentage of the population are waking up to the realization that most of Washington is bought up, like a commodity on the futures market. The system itself has to change, but in the meantime, people must compassionately understand the other. Choosing the better of two evils, is what the other is doing, they didn't loose their minds. That's for next time, if it's done all over again, four years later. Don't matter the reason, as that's when the intellect gets involved and draws in all the Ed Tv's, Bud and Fisticuffs. Each wants the best possible outcome, so they vote the way they see that happening - the best way for no Civil War, no World War 3 and who'd clean up Washington best or at least cap it, to its current future/past slouching towards....... Oh Kumbaya, mi lord, kumbaya. Wishing all realization in conversation, bottles in their cop-on and agape in actualization. Shine on the Jamie man, agatha's all about.
Jamie, my third post of this new blog is directed towards you and Daniel Pinchbeck. Frivolity, possibly, but at one time or another, both you and Daniel were thinking nearer my god to thee, titanically ........too. Ships going go down, either side, whats the plan for that, decides. You're great guys, great intellects, great friends. Get together online before remember, remember the 5th of Novemeber and have a chat in these shadows of decline. Both polarized in vote thought now, yet both, such good wine. Grab that book Daniel is currently reading "Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec". Maybe that could spark a chat. I tip the hat to you both and say don't lose the rag. Shine on, the baton, I tag.
You express with dazzling prose as always the labyrinthine mindfuck of today’s cultural/political/uber/unter-human overload.
I have perhaps comforting news: a discrete group of men and women psychics who have been unanimously predicting, publicly, for more than five years, a woman president. To a person they see a Harris victory though it will take a few agonizing Caesarian weeks to timely rip us from the festered womb of Republicanism’s frenzy to subvert the majoritarian results and rebuild the world better than it never was.
They also predict an improving American and world order so I am (guardedly) optimistic.
Guardedly as in, “We’ll alwayshh have Peru, schweetheart.”
Omg, a Republic? That’s been gone for a long time. Didn’t Rome go from a republic to an empire to fallen. America seems to be falling. If we are looking for a shared reality it’s not in making a choice, it’s underneath or beyond the extremes. The reality seems to be that humans (not humanism) have an opportunity to live and love and laugh our way out of this mess and into a new future. It’s up to us!
Infinite game practice field: https://www.villageco.org/builders The forever project needs some project managers. Seeking second mountain climbers. All-of-us practitioners for all of us. Memes for the win?
Your description of humanists who play the infinite game by striving to include everyone sounds virtually identical to the overwhelming majority of progressives I know who are universalist/humanists who want to be inclusive of all peoples in a multicultural, pluralistic society. And that is precisely what the Trumpian conservative, "America First" nationalists oppose as "woke" godless humanism. Your analysis seems to obscure that glaringly basic reality.
🎶“Clowns on the left of us, jokers on the right….stuck in the middle with you.” 🎶
Good stuff, would happily read more of your views if you share them before the election 🙏🏼
Brilliant Jamie. A lot now, with this upcoming phantom power of voting, are polarizing, starting to pick sides. Friendships, already being tested. Everybody in the States right now, needs to take a chill pill. Whichever side one casts a vote (also ridiculous - two choices, like 1 or 0, Pepsi or Coke), it must be looked at calmly and simply, that each citizen is picking their own version of - the lesser of two evils. Because ........ except for the fanatical, everyone knows both sides are playing out a script. A script that no one wants implemented. A huge percentage of the population are waking up to the realization that most of Washington is bought up, like a commodity on the futures market. The system itself has to change, but in the meantime, people must compassionately understand the other. Choosing the better of two evils, is what the other is doing, they didn't loose their minds. That's for next time, if it's done all over again, four years later. Don't matter the reason, as that's when the intellect gets involved and draws in all the Ed Tv's, Bud and Fisticuffs. Each wants the best possible outcome, so they vote the way they see that happening - the best way for no Civil War, no World War 3 and who'd clean up Washington best or at least cap it, to its current future/past slouching towards....... Oh Kumbaya, mi lord, kumbaya. Wishing all realization in conversation, bottles in their cop-on and agape in actualization. Shine on the Jamie man, agatha's all about.
Jamie, my third post of this new blog is directed towards you and Daniel Pinchbeck. Frivolity, possibly, but at one time or another, both you and Daniel were thinking nearer my god to thee, titanically ........too. Ships going go down, either side, whats the plan for that, decides. You're great guys, great intellects, great friends. Get together online before remember, remember the 5th of Novemeber and have a chat in these shadows of decline. Both polarized in vote thought now, yet both, such good wine. Grab that book Daniel is currently reading "Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec". Maybe that could spark a chat. I tip the hat to you both and say don't lose the rag. Shine on, the baton, I tag.
Dear Mr. Jamie:
You express with dazzling prose as always the labyrinthine mindfuck of today’s cultural/political/uber/unter-human overload.
I have perhaps comforting news: a discrete group of men and women psychics who have been unanimously predicting, publicly, for more than five years, a woman president. To a person they see a Harris victory though it will take a few agonizing Caesarian weeks to timely rip us from the festered womb of Republicanism’s frenzy to subvert the majoritarian results and rebuild the world better than it never was.
They also predict an improving American and world order so I am (guardedly) optimistic.
Guardedly as in, “We’ll alwayshh have Peru, schweetheart.”
Hey man, right back at ya, Titicaca, after me own heart.
Omg, a Republic? That’s been gone for a long time. Didn’t Rome go from a republic to an empire to fallen. America seems to be falling. If we are looking for a shared reality it’s not in making a choice, it’s underneath or beyond the extremes. The reality seems to be that humans (not humanism) have an opportunity to live and love and laugh our way out of this mess and into a new future. It’s up to us!
Thank you Jamie. This is going in my notes:
"Finite Tribalism or Infinite Humanism.
Can we keep the best of the past without mythologizing it?
Can we steer bravely into an uncertain future without idealizing it?
Can we spot finite tribalism when we see it?
Can we take a stand for humanism cuz we so desperately need it?
Tribalism (finite game) is Destiny.
Humanism (infinite game) is optional."
If you want the truth, follow the financial times. Noam Chomsky. > Or, *follow the rabbit*. https://usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html
Great thoughtful article Jamie... Really appreciate your broader more humanistic idea about the long game for us Human.
Infinite game practice field: https://www.villageco.org/builders The forever project needs some project managers. Seeking second mountain climbers. All-of-us practitioners for all of us. Memes for the win?
Your description of humanists who play the infinite game by striving to include everyone sounds virtually identical to the overwhelming majority of progressives I know who are universalist/humanists who want to be inclusive of all peoples in a multicultural, pluralistic society. And that is precisely what the Trumpian conservative, "America First" nationalists oppose as "woke" godless humanism. Your analysis seems to obscure that glaringly basic reality.
It was going so well and read perfect right up to "Leave a Comment" 😄