Just for fun, let’s do a bit of musing, speculation, daydreaming even about the future based on broad predictive generalizations discovered in THEE, specifically the Spiral of Political Maturation.  Let’s imagine that it’s 100 years in the future. Let’s assume that things are very different. Perhaps the human race has extricated itself from the current political mess. The plutocrats have

The newbie walked in to The Don’s office. It was old-school classy: wingback stuffed leather chairs, snifters on a tall mahogany table, everything wood and deep red. A lingering cloud of smoke from the consigliore’s cigar hung in the air. He sat down across from The Don, who leaned back in his chair, a warm and welcoming look on his face. “Sit down,” he said in his strained, breathy voice. “Thank

The line a mountain range creates against a blue-sky backdrop; the waves on a beach—one timidly approaching your toes, the next engulfs your knees; the dizzying scope of diversity of life on Earth; a spinning rock hurtling through space, circling a raging fireball, itself hurtling through space. It all seems so random, like there’s no rhyme or reason to it all—just pure happenstance. Our very

Last week, I talked about my experiences with rising to a challenge and being creative in my blog, “Tuna Sandwiches, Tattoos and the Dreaded Stork.” It got me thinking—as I often do—about politics.  Do nations and societies get creative in the same sense? Must they face a challenge with positivity and optimism? While it’s true that there is no psychosocial entity without individuals (governments,