Yellow Springs High School, facing west - Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States, Fall 1988. By necessity, American football integrates all human body types in unison. Imagine all body politics across our world operating together like a great American football team and that we survive present multiple-simultaneous threats, turn future-emerging threats into opportunities and thrive for… Continue reading Camaraderie through endeavor – across spacetime: Reflections and recommendations from a participant-observer of late 20th century American football and 2020s solar system(s) building
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SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 4 of 6: A prototype socioeconomic reality of humans advancing across the solar system – 2021-2071
Military industrial complexes (MICs) transformed into exploration information networks (EINs) The following text is a “prototype sketch” that allows readers to refine concepts on their own and even begin implementing in part(s) as they see fit and are able. This piece is not political analysis (what is), political commentary (what and who is to blame)… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 4 of 6: A prototype socioeconomic reality of humans advancing across the solar system – 2021-2071
SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 3 of 6: Why do we really live?
A hard question with "cheat sheet" provided During this uncertain time, wherever we are in our world and in our individual lives, we all need to ask ourselves: Why do we really live? If our honest answers are any of the following, they are not good enough. 1) To keep living 2) To provide for… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 3 of 6: Why do we really live?
SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 2 of 6: Humans on the move
Prospects for synergistic power across the solar system and eventually beyond We now have the opportunity to construct synergistic power among close to eight billion individual humans. If we the majority of humans focus on doing this in many ways both preliminary and eventual, those few who guard their entrenched power relative to others in… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 2 of 6: Humans on the move
SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 1 of 6: Post-hierarchical political and economic options from a solar systems perspective
Prospects for human expansion beyond Earth, enabled by a knowledge-based economic system yielding practical abundance through interchange (not exchange) and non-authoritarian heterarchy Welcome to Sowing Accord, a new project of mine here at 3x3 Global Drills. After receiving my Ph.D. in political science (international relations) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2012, I… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 1 of 6: Post-hierarchical political and economic options from a solar systems perspective
What kind of human are you?
A self-reflective muse on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/348122884 (00:29)
Better alternatives to money-dominated reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCGsSe6Pmo Also available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/310739282 (4:05) From 2014-2018, this channel produced a number of videos centering around my 3x3 Global Drills process, the core idea of my dissertation in political science (international relations), "Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe," University of Hawaii (2012). Those videos provide a deeper understanding of the shorter… Continue reading Better alternatives to money-dominated reality
Intro to 2019: Do we need nations or money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfD0lRt1Pw This introduction signals a new direction for 2019. From 2014-2018, this YouTube channel produced a number of videos centering around my 3x3 Global Drills process, the core idea of my dissertation in political science (international relations), "Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe," University of Hawaii (2012). Those videos provide a deeper understanding… Continue reading Intro to 2019: Do we need nations or money?
Abundance-based interchange economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFG_RUN3k24&t=2s An addition of a new perspective from deep in the mountains of southern Mexico to my YouTube videos from 2017, "Abundance-based Global Currency 1-4 | 3x3 Global Drills Worksheet Series."
Global sea rise migration within 40 years
Here, we consider rapid climate change on Earth, no matter the cause, resulting in drastic global sea rise for next generations of humans based on the ongoing disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) since May 2014, Greenland ice loss from 2002-2016 and glacial melt around the world. (See also, "Ramp-up In Antarctic Ice… Continue reading Global sea rise migration within 40 years
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