Extremely long, building on conversations and ideas from the Novitate conference and Rene Girard, probing Influence/rs and the gamification of everything; an attempt to find and offer a few solutions.
Appreciate your work. Your comment on your Grandfather's understanding that his message would "do it's work" reminded me of the end Acts (the gospel gets into Rome and Luke leaves it at that, the rest is taken as a fait acompli with the words "the gospel spreads, unhindered"), and more recently (and more on theme) the millennia between the Passion and the revelation of the single-victim mechanism and Satan's trick of casting himself out in order to retain his Kingdom. Maybe all rich truth is like that, on a completely different timetable to the one we might place it on.
Thanks for the support Aaron. I think it's one of the hardest things these days to consider a goal that might outlive us and work toward it rather than on something that might bear more immediate fruits. But, I think it's one of our (humanity's) unique capabilities that we can carry on non-evolutionary projects past our own lives... and that they're the ones most worth pursuit.
Appreciate your work. Your comment on your Grandfather's understanding that his message would "do it's work" reminded me of the end Acts (the gospel gets into Rome and Luke leaves it at that, the rest is taken as a fait acompli with the words "the gospel spreads, unhindered"), and more recently (and more on theme) the millennia between the Passion and the revelation of the single-victim mechanism and Satan's trick of casting himself out in order to retain his Kingdom. Maybe all rich truth is like that, on a completely different timetable to the one we might place it on.
Thanks for the support Aaron. I think it's one of the hardest things these days to consider a goal that might outlive us and work toward it rather than on something that might bear more immediate fruits. But, I think it's one of our (humanity's) unique capabilities that we can carry on non-evolutionary projects past our own lives... and that they're the ones most worth pursuit.