January 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Verified facts and culture wars We reach into our grab bag of verified facts to throw as weapons against the other, often inadvertently unaware that our verified facts are stripped of all context. In doing so, we contribute to the culture war. I have been guilty of...
January 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Cultural Hegemony Is when the common people internalise the values, structures, systems and oppressions of the elite ruling class as their own. These rules and structures become normalised and unquestioned. This occurs in most societies slowly slowly. Little...
January 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Why is this the hot topic of the day And who is it serving. How easily we fall into the drama trap, propagated by fourth rate media and stirred by the narcissists, monopolists, and power elite. Distracting subjects like who gets to use a bathroom, boats and borders...
January 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
On the nature of oppression Oppression happens in many ways. We withhold access to clean water, food, education, health care, housing. We pay people wages that keep them in poverty, never able to get above the threshold of survival. We separate them from the majority...
January 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Why a 100% cooperative doesn’t work for transformative change When we live by consensus we become the average. The edges, the wild ideas and innovators AND the laggards and cautionary are merged into the mean. This is where decay and entropy set in. Life and...
January 1, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I am digging deep for hope This first day of January 2024 has storms, rain and lightning – all night long. Fireworks on the beach unable to compete with fireworks from the heavens. This morning I was caught on the beach in a downpour. Happily drenched. I am not...
