Category Archives: Eldering

Some things are good about humanity, call them seeds. Grow these. :- Doug.

“Improving humanity” troubles me. Until I ask the question: What would elicit widespread agreement about what constitutes improvement? :- Doug.

Do you want to help grow a better humanity? What is one thing we can do to help? Ask others this question: get people using their far-sight. :- Doug.

Calling far-sighted individuals to collaborate on issues and opportunities for improving humanity. :- Doug.

Find us a TED or other talk that speaks to growing a better humanity. :- Doug.

Community in storying: we are composing a story over generations, like the builders of cathedrals. Many hands but one thread. Whether the thread starts with us, or we are halfway along its length, what can we? :- Doug.

What are the issues and opportunities for growing a better humanity? :- Doug.

If it is imaginable to do something in 300 years that is impossible in 30, it is because a community—outside time—is doing what one alone cannot. :- Doug.

Listen for the long. :- Doug.

Penetrate perception Hear its 100,000 year beat :- Doug.

What questions do we need to ask the past? What questions ought we expect the 11th generation to ask us? :- Doug.

So people continue, life continues. Let us make use of this feature and write our story in flesh, in habits, in culture, in nature—and maybe in the interrelationships among them. :- Doug.

Could it be that the task before us is bridging story to story: a meta-story? We find the long old story and hook it up to the new story yet to unfold? So telling the shorter episodes (our individual stories) … Continue reading →