Think before a decision. These are rough thoughts and reflections on news, articles and books that help create a frame for broader considerations. Putting together thoughts about our species, ourselves, what to do, technology, the use of the humanities, as a kind of collage. This site is more my own views and reflections on trends or events that affect GardenWorld Politics, the book I am writing. I spend most of my time thinking, reading, talking, and organization consulting, working to increase participation using scenarios, online social architecture and strategy….and also philosophical psychotherapy.Putting together this site is made much easier by the postings at Book Forum which does an amazing sort of the more important background papers. I only wish there were such a site for articles in the humanities. The task is tougher because there is not an agreed upon frame of relevance such as there is at political theory - the frame being what is important right now.
I also read Scott Horton, Asian Times, dailykos, Josh Marshall, Juan Cole, Brad Delong, Steve Clemons, Huffington, Raw Story, Agonist. I am deeply indebted. One not mentioned, so special is billmon.org , without whom courage would not be as nudged.
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My current project is thinking about political language, the near irrelevance of the Republican and Democratic parties to the major issues of the times, and the need for an alternative to the machine dreams of the current mainstream hyper organization of everything. I call that alternative, quixotically, and realistically, Gardenworld: the vigorous use of tech, capital and the environment, but to design principles, not capital dominance. Think Olmsted, Bucky Fuller. Erich Fromm, and Erik Erikson’s Eight stages of the human life-cycle as a design template for society.
I have a draft of a book, GardenWorld Politics , on a new agenda for a better future - and present.
- Name: Douglass Carmichael
- Location: Duncans Mills on the Russian River, Sonoma County, California, United States
- Phone: 1-415-449-1642
