Friday, August 19, 2022
Might makes right? Might makes wrong?
The Pre-religious worldview said “might makes right”; The post-religious worldview now says might makes wrong. The religious worldview says right makes right and this is the only coherent moral position.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Is the political spectrum useful?
Which belief is more likely to produce hostility?
1. There are only two types of people in this world: good people like you on one side of a spectrum who are right about everything, and evil others on the other side of the spectrum who are wrong about everything
2. There are many types of people in this world and you will you will have many points of agreement and disagreement with everyone
The second answer is not only less likely to produce hostility, it also happens to be true
Monday, August 8, 2022
Nature and Analogical Thinking
If Kevin Kelly is right that the invented increasingly resembles the created (Out of Control), and if Clay Christensen is right that associative/analogical thinking is the key to innovation (The Innovator’s DNA), then shouldn’t we be examining nature much more with an eye to getting innovative ideas? E.g., look at trees to figure out buttressing? Birds for flight?