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Orphangelical

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”

Oscar Wilde

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They fail to alter their views to fit the facts. Instead, they alter facts to fit their views.

Dr. Who

The Long View

Dgg

PBS is airing a series about Futurism. A question looms for our ‘just in time’ generation that have compressed our perception into only the ‘now.’

“Short-termism is on the rise. Compressed media cycles and quarterly-profit obsessed businesses have caused society to favor instant gratification over long-term happiness. In turn, individuals, organizations, and humanity as a whole fell increasingly isolated, anxious and reactive.”

The Longpath Project

Great future designs must include initiatives to blunt the effects of anti-progressive agency.

7th Generation thinking applies in at least a couple of different ways. As PBS presents in the program (below), there is a socially benevolent basis for thinking ahead.

In counter-position however, another force is at work. There are hostile impediments, sociopathic malevolence also plans ahead.

Planning ahead requires balance. Great future designs must include initiatives to blunt the effects of anti-progressive agency.

“In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation… even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine.”

Often misquoted as part of the Iroquois Nation Constitution

Building the great cathedrals of Europe took generations. Some took hundreds of years to complete. We have the same kinds of needs now with collectively fixing the environment and solving population pressures.

The Question is: Can we re-learn the kind of generational empathy required to begin, build and finish community projects at the level of global significance?

Maybe we always have to just start at home and change one village at a time?

https://www.pbs.org/show/a-brief-history-of-the-future