There is transition and there is Transition. The former is happening/inevitable, and in it people, one by one, will turn to and/or against each other. The latter is happening/possible, and in it people voluntarily increase the odds that turning to will be more than turning against will be. Either way, the masses will vacate the neutral center between those options, where complacency is rife. It will not remain a place to live.



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I found myself thinking of Transition and the active games King On the Mountain, Red Rover and Sardines. The games are illustrative of some relationships and dynamics with which we're all (I presume) familiar. If you don't know the games, you'll be OK.



I generally think of King On the Mountain as what elites, and the governments they manipulate, use the planet to play: get on top and shove the others down in all directions. As far as I've thought, it's not analogous to anything we… Continue

The like-mindedness we need most, that will encourage and build enduring relationships among people who haven't gotten together before, is along the lines of "OMG, all our eggs are in one basket!" That's overlooked, not uncertain or controversial. The like-mindedness associated with positions in controversies, at first energizing (I'm not alone and maybe we're becoming the majority!), easily becomes a trap, a kind of dead end. Or it doesn't serve when the going gets rough.



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The following is copied and pasted from my blog at woburnite.com



Because the name of my business is Applied Ecologics, I frequently startle people and activate their curiosity by simply stating it. From my angle, it's apparent they've heard something they were not expecting to hear. I see they sense it's something well-meaning, and likely beneficial, but that they cannot readily grasp. I try to help them understand, with… Continue