From Scarcity to Abundance

Permanent Culture, Community Resilience, and Holistic Design

Jesse Tack

This particular teach-in event began by gazing through the lens of our various  perspectives in time and space. That is, how one sees their world. The dual mode of MICRO/MACRO was used to frame the general idea of the so-called Permanent Culture for humankind.

From the MACRO perspective we discussed the timeframe of life’s evolution on Earth’s 4.5 billion year life span. For most of that length of time (4000 million years), bacteria were the predominant form of life. We used this clock model of conceptualizing that length of time.

Street Art in the Electronic Age

LED Bombing

Christine Hume and Linette Lao

Theft of a Nation

Gregg Barak

 

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Innovate or Die

Rick Snyder’s Corporatist Vision for Michigan

Nathanael Romero

So a few weeks ago when I started preparing for this teach-in, I started to notice something pretty strange. I’d be digging around online and I’d read these things that were being said about Governor Rick Snyder, describing him as this “sunny pragmatist” (as the New Republic called him).[1] In various places I’d see him being described as this nerdy, but affable guy who has this particular virtue of being able rise above petty partisanship, and who is always exuding this aura of relentless positivity. In the New York Times I found an article quoting Bill Ford, the executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, who said, “Rick doesn’t get bogged down in partisan stuff.”[2] And in Bloomberg Businessweek, I found a quote by a Republican political consultant, who said, “Most people think Rick Snyder has broken the mold … He’s impossible to fit into a box ideologically.”[3]

Marina Sitrin at The Dreamland

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