Big Think

Timothy Monicken on January 18, 2008, 9:33 PM

I'm uncertain about what your true point was; although, I imagine it has more to do with our present-day penchant for material entitlement/ "immediate gratification," and perhaps the hedonistic/ epicurean preoccupations of today's self-indulgent lifestyles, than with questions surrounding the poor choices made by each and everyone of us throughout our youth.

Certainly, our corporate business entities, in terms of their governance, etc., act like spoiled children when they SHOULD know better, but this to has been seen as "water under the bridge" and we can only hope that we are wising up quickly. It will take a major shift in the "haves" mentality for there to be an equitable future for all. Sustainable ecologies will indeed only be attainable when we are collectively thinking & working from the "same page."

The internal dialogues will indeed have to become more measured and authentic if we are to achieve more keenly adaptive understandings & ever-broadened sensibilities about our world & fellow humans. To do this, my group hopes to further encourage the internalization of our mapped collective human intellect. But then to do this, people will have to pay many times over with their investments in time & effort BEFORE that internalization takes hold… it like sending people back to school with no "immediate" payoff. To be sure, not an easy task, if people continue to embrace the "short view." It requires a shift to the "long view" mentality… the Japanese could do the required exercises much more easily than those of us in America – sad, but true.

Timothy Monicken on January 19, 2008, 2:33 AM

I’m uncertain about what your true point was; although, I imagine it has more to do with our present-day penchant for material entitlement/ “immediate gratification,” and perhaps the hedonistic/ epicurean preoccupations of today’s self-indulgent lifestyles, than with questions surrounding the poor choices made by each and everyone of us throughout our youth.

Certainly, our corporate business entities, in terms of their governance, etc., act like spoiled children when they SHOULD know better, but this to has been seen as “water under the bridge” and we can only hope that we are wising up quickly. It will take a major shift in the “haves” mentality for there to be an equitable future for all. Sustainable ecologies will indeed only be attainable when we are collectively thinking & working from the “same page.”

The internal dialogues will indeed have to become more measured and authentic if we are to achieve more keenly adaptive understandings & ever-broadened sensibilities about our world & fellow humans. To do this, my group hopes to further encourage the internalization of our mapped collective human intellect. But then to do this, people will have to pay many times over with their investments in time & effort BEFORE that internalization takes hold… it like sending people back to school with no “immediate” payoff. To be sure, not an easy task, if people continue to embrace the “short view.” It requires a shift to the “long view” mentality… the Japanese could do the required exercises much more easily than those of us in America – sad, but true.