26. February 2017
How to see anything correctly about social organization and quality of governance requires a new paradigm. What that paradigm is and how it will work is what The Action Manual is all about. he recognizes that we need a new social ethos and set of public values. It emphasizes that public citizens (a large majority of Americans) need to assert themselves against the private ones.
26. February 2017
The tables have turned! The intense rage, resentment, and frustration which characterizes much of the Tea Party advocates over the past decade or so are now becoming part of the scorned American left and liberals. (See 1-23-2017 NY Times article: http://nyti.ms/2iYlwaJ ) The newly-disaffected advocates on the other side of the political spectrum are now engaging in protests, public venting, irate critiques and mockery of the new winning class of conservatives, evangelicals, and abused working...
26. February 2017
The Little People need a fresh, modern version of an American society emphasizing a new set of public values and a new social ethos – collective interest and fairness, a “brain” in government (i. e. rationality in policymaking), enhanced professionalism and trustworthiness in governance, more reliance on science and technology in policymaking, inclusiveness, and a new set of informal institutions which the “little people” operate themselves to pushback upon the elite class.
26. February 2017
The Action Manual describes a myth that can work. It is the story of how the little people obtain Balance, Meaning and Respect, together with Smartness in governance and social relations.
13. November 2016
Not very many people thought it would happen – the "little people" actually upsetting the traditional political process especially as manifested in the Trump election to the US presidency. Rational, fair-minded, and intellectually honest people can't stand Trump personally and are chagrined at the level of support he has garnered among American voters. The political elite, for different reasons, feel as if they have lost serious control of the political-economic process which they have...
27. October 2016
What is the cause of the extreme divisiveness in American society? New York Times columnist, David Brooks, in his October 21, 2016 column “Repairing Moral Capital” (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/opinion/how-to-repair-moral-capital.html) has a good explanation. It is the lack of shared habits, norms, institutions and values, that make common life possible. I would describe that characterization as generally accurate but would substitute the conflict between “private citizens” and...
27. October 2016
Many voters have no trust in the election nor in their government. Why should they? They have been dominated by a political-economic elite for generations. They know the system is rigged. They have been promised “Change!” for nearly forever. The “change” they has received has been in the form of lost jobs, homes, pensions, medical insurance, and trust in nearly every one of their authority institutions. While they are sick of things and are fighting back, the only legal and practical...