Three relevant book (and possibly guest) recommendations I believe TGS viewers will be inspired by:
1. "The Sirens' Call; How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource" by Chris Hayes, 2025. "Something has changed utterly... attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated...'Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.'...we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future" (cover).
2. Although the intended audience is women, I believe this book would benefit any reader since it draws strongly upon sensory experiencing modalities, as well as discusses not only personal, but also collective healing: "Call of the Wild; How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Power, and Use It for Good" by Kimberly Ann Johnson, 2021. "In an increasingly polarized world where trauma is often publicly renegotiated, our nervous systems are on high alert...[We live] In a culture that prioritizes executive function and 'mind over matter'...While we cannot cure the painful cultural rifts inflicting our society, there is a path forward--through our bodies " (cover).
3. "The Connection Cure; The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging" by Julia Hotz, 2024. "Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world's most common ailments...As Hotz tours the globe to investigate the spread of social prescribing to more than thirty countries, she meets people personifying its evolutionary potential... The success stories she finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better" (cover).
Will watch your latest today. Just wanted to let you know Paul Hawken was on Rich Roll's show and mentioned your work at The Great Simplification. If you reading this don't know Rich, he is a plant strong athletic buddha who is always learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wSvRZo2cM
Dunbar is clearly an answer to both the attention crisis and the loneliness crisis.
We are -evolutionary speaking- the grandchildren of stupid cavepeople who ran after mammoths for sustenance. Our brains may have launched us toward the sun, but as Icarus, we are not able to withstand this much power this quickly.
Fun fact, the Dunbar number is also the average number of connections on social media around the world (taken from a Facebook study a few years ago), perhaps there is a key to understand how to strenghten human communities for the upcoming transitions, who knows !
Objective rationality: to take a subjective word in actions and objectify it for the possessive, ie, I want a Dunbar added to my life.
Dunbar is of every living life, its short or longer time, and how connections happen.
The tragedy of the commons is well defined, it was removed for more shopping, it was removed by fear of others and the perfect self (schools training of the omnipresent narcissist, not village) it was removed by claiming the commons as free passage to flatten the world, cut its mountains, maim its inhabitants, wheel out the ingredients, fence off the children, and box in a stage theory of imaginary significance to gambling, a gambling so entrenched it calls it Gods work, by deeds, permissions, decree, and war upon citizens, not a fact in corporate culture to compete, speed and consume, the other version abandoned, leave no trace, tread lightly upon this earth and all our gifts of the most sensitive creature to ever exist and assist in the world, not of speed, but observation in presence to a culture entrenched of sickness, the rocket class human, crashing head on into atrophy and neglect.
Solution is water, we are of water not machinery, invention, not cave, observation, not constraint, wandering, not conditioning, curiosity, not spoon feeding, language, not staged theories, practice, not the objective and harmful words of practice. Being and not the human who is forever in the futuristic mind of correctness and measure, but observation, skill, detail, sensitivity and self author to authenticity.
There are no degrees in kindness, every child is born of an authentic gift of reciprocity we call altruism, although the ‘ism’ is for objective convenience to separate meaning to fiction and ‘destination’, not journey.
The new world order is oppressive, non responsive, with value before care and wants over needs.
Care is before value. (Forrest Landry)
Of ‘knowledge’ it is sought when needed, people need people.
Lecture to young minds, the ‘you’ of youth is infotainment of a professor, blowing in the wind, a wind bag full of themselves, even A Einstein said as much, conversations never had, we are left to assume the making up of a mind.
Three relevant book (and possibly guest) recommendations I believe TGS viewers will be inspired by:
1. "The Sirens' Call; How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource" by Chris Hayes, 2025. "Something has changed utterly... attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated...'Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.'...we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future" (cover).
2. Although the intended audience is women, I believe this book would benefit any reader since it draws strongly upon sensory experiencing modalities, as well as discusses not only personal, but also collective healing: "Call of the Wild; How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Power, and Use It for Good" by Kimberly Ann Johnson, 2021. "In an increasingly polarized world where trauma is often publicly renegotiated, our nervous systems are on high alert...[We live] In a culture that prioritizes executive function and 'mind over matter'...While we cannot cure the painful cultural rifts inflicting our society, there is a path forward--through our bodies " (cover).
3. "The Connection Cure; The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging" by Julia Hotz, 2024. "Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world's most common ailments...As Hotz tours the globe to investigate the spread of social prescribing to more than thirty countries, she meets people personifying its evolutionary potential... The success stories she finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better" (cover).
(Cross-posted to YouTube)
Will watch your latest today. Just wanted to let you know Paul Hawken was on Rich Roll's show and mentioned your work at The Great Simplification. If you reading this don't know Rich, he is a plant strong athletic buddha who is always learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wSvRZo2cM
Dunbar is clearly an answer to both the attention crisis and the loneliness crisis.
We are -evolutionary speaking- the grandchildren of stupid cavepeople who ran after mammoths for sustenance. Our brains may have launched us toward the sun, but as Icarus, we are not able to withstand this much power this quickly.
Fun fact, the Dunbar number is also the average number of connections on social media around the world (taken from a Facebook study a few years ago), perhaps there is a key to understand how to strenghten human communities for the upcoming transitions, who knows !
Objective rationality: to take a subjective word in actions and objectify it for the possessive, ie, I want a Dunbar added to my life.
Dunbar is of every living life, its short or longer time, and how connections happen.
The tragedy of the commons is well defined, it was removed for more shopping, it was removed by fear of others and the perfect self (schools training of the omnipresent narcissist, not village) it was removed by claiming the commons as free passage to flatten the world, cut its mountains, maim its inhabitants, wheel out the ingredients, fence off the children, and box in a stage theory of imaginary significance to gambling, a gambling so entrenched it calls it Gods work, by deeds, permissions, decree, and war upon citizens, not a fact in corporate culture to compete, speed and consume, the other version abandoned, leave no trace, tread lightly upon this earth and all our gifts of the most sensitive creature to ever exist and assist in the world, not of speed, but observation in presence to a culture entrenched of sickness, the rocket class human, crashing head on into atrophy and neglect.
Solution is water, we are of water not machinery, invention, not cave, observation, not constraint, wandering, not conditioning, curiosity, not spoon feeding, language, not staged theories, practice, not the objective and harmful words of practice. Being and not the human who is forever in the futuristic mind of correctness and measure, but observation, skill, detail, sensitivity and self author to authenticity.
There are no degrees in kindness, every child is born of an authentic gift of reciprocity we call altruism, although the ‘ism’ is for objective convenience to separate meaning to fiction and ‘destination’, not journey.
The new world order is oppressive, non responsive, with value before care and wants over needs.
Care is before value. (Forrest Landry)
Of ‘knowledge’ it is sought when needed, people need people.
Lecture to young minds, the ‘you’ of youth is infotainment of a professor, blowing in the wind, a wind bag full of themselves, even A Einstein said as much, conversations never had, we are left to assume the making up of a mind.