Are human beings crazy? Here we are, a quarter of the way into the 21st century, and what we’ve seen are a series of tragedies, mostly arising from human conflicts. From Sept 11, 2001 through to the current war in Iran, and everything in between: the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Oct 7 attack on Israel, and Israel’s genocidal response,… Read more →
Grassroots Economics and Chaordic Design
I want us to do a review and thorough analysis of Will Ruddick’s https://substack.com/home/post/p-189778206, highlighting some of the key insights, e.g., The question is not whether chaordic design works. It clearly does. The question is what constitutional features are required when the scale expands beyond banks and into humanity. When the scale expands beyond banks, the constitution can no longer… Read more →
The 2026 State of the World
If we look at current state of the world reports, CIA factbooks, etc., what are the biggest challenges facing the biosphere? What could better planetary intel do for us in facing these challenges? Your question goes to the core of your larger inquiry into planetary and bioregional intelligence. Read more →
Accelerating the Development of Planetary Intelligence
If we listen to what the leaders of major AI companies are now saying, we need to accelerate our capacity to respond to the extraordinary technological revolution underway. We are in a race, not for “superintelligence” or “AI dominance,” but to protect humanity from the adverse consequences of its own devising. How are we going to do this? If we… Read more →
The Urgency and Importance of Developing Greater Planetary Intelligence
Looking at https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace and https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology, along with Nate Hagen’s https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/122-a-country-of-geniuses, what should we conclude about the urgency and importance of developing greater planetary intelligence? Taken together, these three long-form pieces – Machines of Loving Grace (Dario Amodei’s essay), The Adolescence of Technology (Amodei follow‑up), and A Country of Geniuses (Nate Hagens) – point to a compelling case for urgent expansion… Read more →
The Shambala Warrior Prophecy and the Great Turning
Predictions relegate us to the role of passive observers of likelihoods; prophecies come true only if we make them true. A prophecy comes true only if we recognize the possibility it illuminates and participate in its fulfillment. (—Charles Eisenstein) The Shambala Warrior Prophecy, as told by Joanna Macy, seems likely to become one of the stories that reverberates down through… Read more →
Creating a Regenerative News Network
I want to discuss whether it’s possible to create a Regenerative News Network, which would comb the web for, say, one new story a day that shows a regenerative community initiative working to counteract the destructive effects of modern corporate/colonial capitalism, and offers that story in an appealing format. Visitors should be able to subscribe to a daily story, preferably… Read more →
Developing Greater Planetary Intelligence
We’re still in the early, heady days of AI development, looking for breakthroughs in the capacity of machines with software brains to understand us and the world around us. This is truly remarkable technology—which may not, in the end, be seen as so remarkable by our descendants—but which at this point seems likely to awaken the intelligence that is already… Read more →
AI and the Ecology of Relationships
Artificial Intelligence is not just a technology problem. It is an ecological force acting on the ecosystem of human relationships. Every civilization is held together by an invisible ecology. Not only forests and watersheds, but bonds of attention, trust, obligation, and care. Families, friendships, mentorships, disagreements, reconciliations—these form a living network through which meaning flows. This is the ecology of… Read more →
Sydney Harvey Griffith’s Planetary Party
Review and Evaluation of Sydney Harvey Griffith’s “The Field Is Ready” — and its relationship to the development of Planetary Intelligence Ref: https://substack.com/home/post/p-186228343 What Sydney is arguing Sydney’s essay uses her time at World Economic Forum in Davos not as an endorsement or critique of elites per se, but as a contrast lens. Davos becomes diagnostic. It reveals two worlds… Read more →