Ages can meet
Intensive research into how the ages can meet for life’s good.
:- Doug.
What comes after the United States collapses? What comes after humanity goes extinct? What word might we have?
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Converse, ages, life
What is it I am exploring? Grandchildren, generations, futures, humanity, humanicity, ancestors. Generating. How we might converse across the ages: to improve life. Converse, ages, life.
:- Doug.
Thinking out of ignorance
Now to my hardest work: Thinking—out of ignorance—by diving into what I do not and cannot know.
:- Doug.
To meet the unexpected face
We cannot imagine the 11th generation because we have not practiced making up real persons with skin, bones, loves, struggles, and strangenesses. And faces. To a lesser extent but still large, this lack of trying accounts for saying “There might not be an 11th generation:” it is a failure to imagine well. Did not someone call us to envision the faces of those who never will be?
There is a touch of failure of courage. To meet the unexpected face.
:- Doug.
Joy as rebelling
Joy can be your rebellious response to the insanity and injustices of life.
:- Doug.
A most dangerous thing
The human mind is a most dangerous thing.
Steeped over 300 years, a most dangerous thing.
:- Doug.
Whole group clearness?
What if the whole group were the focus of the clearness committee? What questions do we ask of one another? What questions do we ask of us?
:- Doug.
Baking bread together
If we are prevented by space-time from breaking bread together, perhaps we can busy ourselves baking bread together—and sneak a bite off the loaf.
:- Doug.
First offering to strangers
Hospitality is the first offering to every stranger. What can that mean for us here and now?
:- Doug.
Mutual clearness committee
One thing we can do with “our” grandchild is to convene a mutual clearness committee, after the manner of Friends.
:- Doug.
Trade letters
Write a letter to someone in the 11th generation. Now trade letters with another and read it as if you were the one receiving it. Talk it out together.
:- Doug.
choose based on imagination
One of the most important things we can give a young person is the skill to choose based upon imagination, curiosity, and any other lasting pull. The skill to distinguish a love for tanks or politics of the moment from what can take more than a lifetime to fulfill.
:- Doug.
How to murder grandchildren
How to murder grandchildren. (By putting them into the category of “People who mean nothing to me.”)
:- Doug.
Agreeing’s no fun
Where is it written that any two people ought to agree? What would be the fun?
:- Doug.
Where do you want them to want to go?
Who are your spiritual ancestors? In what did they excel? Travel, poetry, romantic love, ecstasy, exploring? Who then will be your spiritual great grandchildren? Where do you want them to want to go, those who are your next?
:- Doug.
