The writings and articles of Becoming Human. Here are the thoughts, ideas, and practices to help us understand the world so that we can better live in it.
Verbal rhetoric such as public speaking is useful but has limitations. This communication is great for goals and inspiration but does not produce behavioral changes. This is the myth of transformative information.
Transformative communication requires more than speaking. Why do we prefer verbal rhetoric, what culture is produced as a result, and what else should we try to do?
Read MoreRural places are declining. Why are rural communities desolate, backward, and useless? What should the urban-rural relationship look like?
Read MoreThe religious tendency of navigating a complicated world according to Emile Durkheim
Read MoreDo things depreciate over time or gain value over time? The balance between tradition and progress shouldn’t be one-sided. Growth and change should be informed by roots and history.
Read MoreA suggestion for roots, growth, and moving forward.
Read MoreBelonging and the four ingredients of community — from Emile Durkheim’s study of suicide.
Read MoreTwo unsatisfactory approaches to society are (1) blind acceptance of how things are and (2) overt verdicts on society’s moral status as a whole.
Neither pays attention to the process of how norms came to be nor the variety of outcomes they produce. The better approach is to notice what society creates and what it might be at the expense of.
Read MoreLessons on labor and the futile attempt to rewire society’s economics toward good, meaningful work.
Read MoreThe functions of society, social facts, and the collective life according to Emile Durkheim.
Read MoreA Two-Week Immersion With Central America & Dismal Lessons Learned — I can’t save the world. What, then, should I do? Globalism, economics, politics, imperialism, colonization; in experiencing the discrepancy of core and periphery societies, what ought we do with one of world history's biggest problems?
Read MoreThe methods of moral reasoning and why we disagree.
Read MoreWhy You Should Play the Long Game
Marshall McLuhan, Faustian Bargains, and the cultural, sociological, and anthropological implications of what might be better called “media.”
Read MoreHow we change & break orbital resistance.
Read MoreThere are actually three reasons: Disruption, Loss, & Slowness
Read MoreA sociological exploration of the Christian creeds and how religious tradition should inform current faith.
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