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I plan to not retire: I plan to morph into ever more useful.

:- Doug.

Write a story about How a machine learned to help me.

:- Doug.

Write a letter to a young elder asking her or him to improve humanity.

:- Doug.

The world needs more futures practitioners.

:- Doug.

What we want as a storyteller is a flying companion.

:- Doug.

Profundity comes in through the ears. It first goes out. Through the hair. One lets down one’s hair. Loosens shoulders, lets them down. Pretense—of strength, beauty, whatever it is—is relieved. One just is. The deep down, the really real, revealed. Deeply accepted. Through the other’s ears. Through one’s eyes seeing the other’s ears drenched. And OK. Really OK.

:- Doug.

We crave love—some person to love and to love us. We develop deep relationships with dogs who seem to receive us unconditionally. That’s it—the central thing—to be received, taken in, in all our foibles and muddles—to be received. Nothing more expected of us. Everything OK as is.

:- Doug.

Storytelling: Bending the Arc

:- Doug.

Tell us a story about that. Can someone here find a point of divergence in that?

:- Doug.

How shall we study values and humanicity? How can we narrow it to what we can foster?

:- Doug

This is a thinking course, not a thought course.

:- Doug.

If we assume one future is possible we can study it and our actions in relation to it. Suppose….

:- Doug.

Identifying our values challenges us to examine our integrity.

:- Doug.

Ought our values transfers be only “Thou shalt nots?” Is everything permitted that’s not forbidden, or do we write our aspirations the other way around?

:- Doug.

Our 300-year grandchild elders might be more silicon than biological—or even all silicon. So the values transfers might be starting from zero.

:- Doug.

It is interesting what you can see if you stop.

:- Doug.

How’d we get from “not kill” to “caring for one another?”

:- Doug.

You’re teaching the course. I’m merely pointing to the raw materials.

:- Doug.

There comes a point where there is too much data and it must be ignored (so we get to the important).

:- Doug.

All story tells us about humanicity. Everything is story.

:- Doug.

This is story immersion. To learn story. Only it’s a story a minute.

:- Doug.

Improv is story.

:- Doug.

What’s the question nobody asks in the world but you wish they would?

:- Doug.