The Gravity Well Effect

The university that cannot fix itself is disqualified from educating our young.

When our heroes are failing, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Even good things are bad. Take the cult of wellness. This was supposed to be a way to improve health in all of its dimensions, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It hasn’t always turned out that way. Many people say wellness proves to be trying and diminishing. It’s become “you are not good enough” theater. One respondent captured the prob

In our culture, trends die young.

Our competitors are looking not just to beat us but baffle us. So, yes, the new American culture makes even business more changeable and chaotic. And culture, those underlying assumptions, are the culprit.

“Apps monitor you. They report on you. They shame you.” At the extreme, apps make somethings a little like a police state.

We no longer see things as culture dictates we should. We are now getting closer to see the thing itself. Culture is breaking as we attempt to use it. In these few instances, it is slipping away before our very eyes.

Once as tidy as a Koi pond, culture now floods like the Nile. Great riches. Precious little order. This “too much” culture is a concussive, confusing culture.

But categories are now less clear. They have multiplied and in some cases collapsed. And this makes the world buzz with imprecision. A FTL teenager looks into the social world and goes, “Oh please. I’m supposed to navigate that? What do I aim for? If there’s an identity waiting for me out there, I can’t see it.”