Sublime

New worldviews are bubbling away in little cauldrons all the time, but they only flow into the mainstream (eg become part of corporate trainings, official gov't policy, school curricula) when they are structurally of service to preserve the power status quo.

3/ You focus on self-improvement instead of self-understanding and authenticity But a tiny acorn grows into a magnificent oak tree and it never says “I have to improve myself”

Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He's one of the best novelists alive today. This interview is a detailed look at his writing process, inspired by the class he used to teach at Stanford — and he's never done an interview quite like this. Here are 17 lessons: 1. When you're sure what you're looking at, look harder. 2. There are... See more

Cutting some people down to promote equality is not the way. But also a lesson in branding (from both sides): Calling a program “gifted and talented” instead of “higher difficulty classes” made parents fight over who got in, envious if they didn’t. https://t.co/9KdG1r2DOH

The map is not the territory? True. Forget the map, it's limited anyway? Huge fallacy. Maps are insanely powerful. Language is a map, hell all of thinking is a symbolic mapping process. Too many people conclude that: because the map is limited, abandon it. Everything except for direct consciousness of Being is inherently limited. Does that mean ... See more