Posts Tagged ‘community’

This video of Fred Kent‘s talk on “placemaking” at Gel 2009 reminded me of Ted Dewan’s talk on road witches.

A pretty building is not enough.

You have to create inviting places for people to gather, and in doing so continue →

MAP

Okay, so what do I do with the chat yesterday on businesses?  Do we give them up?  How do we make money?  How do we survive?

You survived long before money was ever invented.



Money is simply a token of exchange.  Instead you have given your power to money – much more than just making it a token.

You have forgotten yourselves, and each other, with your use of money.  continue →

MAP

What do you want?

My life.  And more.

More what?

Impact.  Reach.  Quiet.  Expansion.

Do you live in this world?

This is a very strange conversation.  continue →

MAP

How can we be different if we are the same?

It depends on the experience you choose and the level at which you look at it.

Take your blood for example.  You all have blood and yet no two bloods are alike.

Close, but not alike.  continue →

MAP

If all religions teach peace and tolerance for each other, why are we still violent after thousands of years?

You tell me.  Why wouldn’t your peaceful nature be natural?

Now that’s a good question – unnatural nature.

I was asking you.

But you are the one with the violent nature.  Not I.  continue →

[Update to Socialist By Nature]


When I saw this RSA presentation by Jeremy Rifkin on Homo empathicus in The Empathic Civilisation I was reminded of the post I wrote oh so long ago on our socialist nature.





I think this idea has continue →