Just finished reading and listening to "True Believers".
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/americas-true-believers-and-their?fbclid=IwAR39R6jBKAgt3OzrEC89ry2Krj4Us2qu6_PbDZW-ZOfK1WTlILUDkSbVFME
The video is quite good since it provides the beginnings of a roadmap in our changing world. There are reasonable suggestions as to a way forward…
The video is quite good since it provides the beginnings of a roadmap in our changing world. There are reasonable suggestions as to a way forward. Some of Neil Ferguson's comments are spot on with regards to why "wokeism" is tolerated by members of our Power Elite.
As a "Founding Member" for this substack it would be good to have an avenue to bring up ideas for Bari's consideration (she is on to something). Absent this I'll employ this space in the hope that Bari would see it.
I've toyed with the idea of cancelling by subscription to the New York Times for years now. This is largely because I see it as a propaganda forum for a Failed Power Elite. I still have a subscription though it is just internet access and the physical Sunday Edition. The Times is no longer worth the expense for a traditional subscription.
I would suggest that individuals who are interested in the American Experience that they consider three things:
1) Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave. We are living in it. It is the information age. It is the application of technology to the more effective collation and analysis of information.
2) Jacob Bronowski (Carl Sagan as well). Both of these true intellectuals sensed very viscerally the environment which we now face. We live in a "counter-revolution" to the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. I sensed its emergence back in the 1970s and it has only gained further purchase since then. The fact that it is a force at all represents a failure of leadership in Western Civilization. That is a separate discussion though.
3) Martin Nowak's book, Supercooperators
Bear in mind that Jacob Bronowski warned against our current environment almost 1/2 century ago.
Just finished reading and listening to "True Believers".
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/americas-true-believers-and-their?fbclid=IwAR39R6jBKAgt3OzrEC89ry2Krj4Us2qu6_PbDZW-ZOfK1WTlILUDkSbVFME
The video is quite good since it provides the beginnings of a roadmap in our changing world. There are reasonable suggestions as to a way forward. Some of Neil Ferguson's comments are spot on with regards to why "wokeism" is tolerated by members of our Power Elite.
As a "Founding Member" for this substack it would be good to have an avenue to bring up ideas for Bari's consideration (she is on to something). Absent this I'll employ this space in the hope that Bari would see it.
I've toyed with the idea of cancelling by subscription to the New York Times for years now. This is largely because I see it as a propaganda forum for a Failed Power Elite. I still have a subscription though it is just internet access and the physical Sunday Edition. The Times is no longer worth the expense for a traditional subscription.
I would suggest that individuals who are interested in the American Experience that they consider three things:
1) Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave. We are living in it. It is the information age. It is the application of technology to the more effective collation and analysis of information.
2) Jacob Bronowski (Carl Sagan as well). Both of these true intellectuals sensed very viscerally the environment which we now face. We live in a "counter-revolution" to the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. I sensed its emergence back in the 1970s and it has only gained further purchase since then. The fact that it is a force at all represents a failure of leadership in Western Civilization. That is a separate discussion though.
3) Martin Nowak's book, Supercooperators
Bear in mind that Jacob Bronowski warned against our current environment almost 1/2 century ago.
https://youtu.be/dYq4p3z_WXA
Think about it.