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What are our leaders doing?
What are our leaders doing? What force is powerful enough to synchronize every leader in almost every country to do the wrong thing on almost every covid action without assuming every leader is evil and/or stupid? Why has no one figured out what’s going on, including normally intelligent alt-media? Let’s assume that most of our leaders […]
Donald Trump: The Sacrifice of the Sacred King
Donald Trump: The Sacrifice of the Sacred King “In antiquity this sylvan landscape was the scene of a strange and recurring tragedy. On the northern shore of the lake, right under the precipitous cliffs on which the modern village of Nemi is perched, stood the sacred grove and sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis, or Diana of […]
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine social contracts
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine social contracts The ruins of the Roman Forum, once a site of a representational government. Credit: Linda Nicholas, Field Museum All good things must come to an end. Whether societies are ruled by ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives, they fall apart in time, with different degrees […]
Why We Don’t Have Principled Politicians
Why We Don’t Have Principled Politicians Politicians choose their stances on issues based on public opinion, not principles. Recently, Senator Chuck Schumer introduced a bill that would decriminalize marijuana on the federal level. He stated that the legality of marijuana should be a matter left up to individual states. This ringing endorsement of federalism might […]
Is the CEO obsolete? A look the emerging organization
Is the CEO obsolete? A look the emerging organization Recently, the writer of a guest editorial in The Guardian Weekly proposed a solution to what ails the world’s business schools: Shut them down. The author, Martin Parker, claims there are 13,000 business schools on the planet and he says that’s 13,000 too many. He says […]
I Don’t Want Your Leaders
I Don’t Want Your Leaders In 2017, I wrote a lot about how dangerously centralized our political system in the U.S. has become, and how we need to decentralize governance in order to restore power, liberty and policy experimentation to the local level. This notion that a sprawling and culturally diverse nation of 325 million […]
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who’s in Power
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who’s in Power No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises. Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation of smouldering social/economic ills, those who see Trump and his supporters as the cause of those ills, and those who see Trump […]
Character Traits And Skills That Are Hard To Find During A Crisis
Character Traits And Skills That Are Hard To Find During A Crisis I have never lived through a national scale crisis and like most people, I hope I never have to. That said, with the growing instability present in the state of the world today it would be rather foolish to assume that the near […]
Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama
Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama Every group (and especially an empire) needs its good or evil spokesperson, leader, or figurehead to focus upon: the embodiment of the particular group or nation. The size of the group is irrelevant: there simply must be a leader […]
WANTED. Planet in crisis seeks leaders up to the job
WANTED. Planet in crisis seeks leaders up to the job When the essence of leadership tends in the direction of doing injury and inflicting harm, it is a collapse of leadership, for which we do not have a name. – Stephen C Rose, in the introduction to his book: The Coming Collapse of Leadership. Why is it that […]
2015: A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation
2015: A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation Issuing lies and pursuing willful blindness is not leadership: it’s failure on a grand scale. Rather than issue predictions for 2015, this week I’ll cover themes that I believe will be consequential in the year ahead. The first theme is the dominant psychological dynamic […]
