Category Archives: Eldering

Why do I want my grandchildren to ask better questions? Because I want them to think and live qualitatively. I want them to define a quality of life and stretch to it, rather than simply let life come over them. … Continue reading →

Name 3 ways stories might improve the lives of our hearers. :- Doug.

Humanicity is the quality of being human. How might our stories affect the qualities the generations explore? :- Doug.

As the machines get brighter and take over expert tasks, particularly in statistics and probabilities, the human role in seeking depth and nuance will be encouraged. :- Doug.

We study story so that we might engender an improved humanity in 300 years. :- Doug.

We are immersed in story. We live for story. We create story by the way we live. Might we yet get intentional about our stories? :- Doug

With farsight, our stories might just touch generations, bending the arc of humanity. :- Doug.

Whatever the world looks like in 300 years, how would you want your stories to touch humanity? :- Doug.

Might your story say the larger thing? :- Doug.

stories + 300 years → a better humanity :- Doug.

How did humanity change since 1720? How might it change by 2320? How might our stories conduce to a better humanity? Way beyond technology, is there something significant in the human soul our stories can work on? :- Doug.

Huxley foresaw “social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress;” what happened that we see something else in our world today? :- Doug.