Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 160
One way to consider my book ‘Common Ground for US’: it’s an effort to rekindle our political imagination. Once upon a time it was remarkable.
For instance recent studies of Neolithic people finds evidence that around the world various tribes were mindful of the importance of controlling the aggregation of power, designing political constructs to prevent it.
Examples are found where people’s lives depended on the efficient and effective harvesting and processing of a seasonal protein spike — a nut harvest, a salmon run. A Big Boss would be selected who would recruit a Police Force. Their purpose was to make sure everyone had a job and did that job to the best of their abilities.
Then, when the season ended, the boss and the cops surrendered their authority and returned to ‘civilian lives’.
Isn’t it clear that a person with authority is much less likely to abuse it when they know the authority is temporary and that they will return to live side by side with those they had been policing?
That positive incentives and appropriate pressures will be used and used again; that force would be a last resort and administered with care?
An important wisdom is found there along with a very optimistic picture of the human race.
And please join me at Golden Fig Books on June 4th, a Thursday, at 6:30, for the book launch.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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