Category Archives: Eldering
A practice smidge
We will be developing a practice. A practice of thinking. A practice of reaching out. A practice of perceiving differently and connecting the previously unconnected. To the end that we grow humanity just a smidge. :- Doug.
Run into us?
As much faster they are going than us, will our grandchildren run into us? :- Doug.
Modifying us
Our course ahead is for working on us, to teach us to think differently, to teach us first to think, then to teach us to encounter strangeness, then to teach us to modify our views of ourselves. :- Doug.
Century stranger encounters
Encounters with strangers across centuries might modify our view of ourselves. :- Doug.
We the specimens
We are really studying ourselves as specimens of humanity; or more precisely, we are studying how we might morph as advance guards. :- Doug.
Stretch 1000 years behind
If we say change is speeding up, well then our look to those who went ahead can stretch 1000 years, rather than the 300 years to our grandchildren behind us. It is just a question of proportions and mathematics. :- … Continue reading
Explore values
Explore values with others wanting to make the most of humanity’s now. :- Doug.
Predicting foibles
You don’t have to predict the future: you just have to predict humans. We do change, but will have recognizable foibles. And possibilities we can grow. For millennia. :- Doug.
Remixing humanity
Remixing humanity: can we get intentional about influencing future humanity? Could they possibly influence us? We have a special opportunity in this generation and time’s a wasting. Let us experiment together. :- Doug.
Ripples coming to us
Will humanity be recognizable in 300 years? Perhaps not physically, but in their quandaries, yes. In that sense, there is no urgency. In the sense that what we are doing today is a pebble in the pond, we have choices: … Continue reading
Grow and nudge
To grow and to nudge: to grow the growth of humanity, of myself to some extent, to get intentional about growing humanity. To nudge that along. Wholly ancestoring: to become better at being an ancestor for the good of humanity. … Continue reading
What vocabulary?
What vocabulary do the ancestors have that we lack? What vocabulary can we create with them? :- Doug.
No fences!
What is my Why? Why do I feel the strong pull to get to this work? When I started this quest toward the 300-year grandchild elders, it was with the aim of improving humanicity. The problem with defining “improving” in … Continue reading
Overarchingly important
Why is this work overarchingly important? Perhaps it is overarchingly important only to me, but then no work is overarchingly important to all or to a majority. So I tell my story, sing my song, invite whomever is willing to … Continue reading
A home and a welcome
Give them a home and a welcome :- Doug.