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?
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!
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 🙏🏼
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?
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.”
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.
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" 😄