Sublime

policy makers and even

Camilla Cavendish’s Extra Time and Anna Dixon’s The Age of Ageing Better

Si nous voulons affronter les crises du siècle, qui sont des crises globales – qu’elles soient climatiques, environnementales, économiques ou géopolitiques –, il faut faire de la phronesis un pilier de la connaissance aussi robuste que l’épistémè et la technè, tant dans l’action collective, politique, que dans nos conduites individuelles de citoyen

Moreover, since structure in human systems includes the “operating policies” of the decision makers in the system, redesigning our own decision making redesigns the system structure.

E.O. Wilson suggests this as being the best methodology of uncovering reality: Only fluency across the [disciplinary] boundaries will provide a clear view of the world as it really is, not as seen through the lens of ideologies and religious dogmas or commanded by myopic response to immediate need … A balanced perspective cannot be acquired by stud

Society as laboratory We increasingly have the capacity to turn the whole of our society into a living laboratory in which to test new ideas of different kinds. There are thousands of local labs or testbeds worldwide, covering topics as varied as drones and care for the elderly. This idea—of taking innovation out of the classic laboratory and into

“Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.”

Morality is that shared system of self-imposed restraints that allow my freedom to coexist with yours.