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To get beyond conventional limits in our thinking about issues that should concern us about our world.
The challenge is to be down to earth and pragmatic as well as farsighted, to not use big picture thinking as a comfortable excuse to be disconnected from present day reality. Oh no. It is not going to be easy. Our problems are problems because they are hard to grasp and deal with.
OUR POLITICS IS TOO SMALL
Our politics is too small if we don't rediscover the cut-to-the-bone honesty of the Founders as a 21st century standard for discernment, curing ourselves of lies and illusions. We have to wake up. We all have to wake up.
Our politics is too small if we cannot see our context in the entire human race. Billions could suffer from our blindness.
Our politics is too small if we so focus on lesser arguments that we never take into account, deeper truths and dynamic, interconnected complexities that our world is really struggling with, beneath the surface.
Writers:
The ultimate best truth-seeking that writers have ever done is not banished from current day writing but buried in a cacophany of crowd noise
and consumer comfort seeking. The focus that gives rise to what coherence there is, that of marketing and what sells, what popular taste defines, insulates against deeper and more profound honesty. Many may actually prefer to be lied to. We are in a mess.
The challenge, is in taking up the old turkey quill pen of the Founders, at least metaphorically, to write with and to throw off the media mind's cottony cacoon of smallness, the mass manufactured dream state of illusion in order to pursue glimpses of clarity. The quill sharpens into a scalpel to cut through falseness.
Who are the thinkers who can lead the way to the future? Where are they?
Are you one?
Methodolody issues for this blog - Seeking Contributors.
Discussion fora have always gotten trashed when immediate responses are posted unfiltered and vastly outnumber real thinking. Too aggressive moderation can quash good content. So the trick is to figure out a middle ground. That may take some experimenting.
Some options:
I can post commentary and then invite responses, moderating contributions for clarity and getting beyond the usual.
I can seek out contributors.
I can put up a categorical issue question and see what comes in as a result.
Until this gets built up, I will mostly post essays and recruit contributors.
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