Archives by Tag 'order of civilization'
Haiti: Locating the affirmative burden of responsibility
Logic and emotion It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, [...]
An app for that: The Enterra
Regeneration Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third; there must be some bond of union between them. And the fairest bond is that which makes the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines; and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato The poetic hymn “There’s [...]
Why I think it’s a great country now
Let history show “It held the line against the bad, allowing for its deconstruction, and the universalization of our economic model, to be followed, through our continued success, by the universalization of our political model.” via Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog. When lessons are learned “Germany was a country where horrible crimes were committed in [...]
Layers
Layers Your ecosystem is composed of layers. Look to the layers: there you will find time and responsibility, the order of civilization. I’ve come to think this way from my reading of Stewart Brand’s, Clock of the Long Now. Tell me what you see?
Haiti: If not (long) now, then when?
Perturbating the order of civilization Beneath Nature’s ground, an earthquake in Haiti. One so devastating, it shocks Culture into chaos; local Governance has no assembly. With its Infrastructure crushed, there is no capacity for Commerce; and Fashion has no market. Doctors are on the way As is food and water. But who will administer the [...]