Stephen Roloff
@stephenwr.bsky.social
Innovation strategist • Aspiring Stoic • Designer • Energy and Climate Geek • Grateful girldad
There're two kinds of dangers - Carl Sagan
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April 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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We can bemoan the polarized dysfunction as a civilization-ending crisis, or as the painful birth of a new era. Ignore the midwives and focus on diapers (because there’s a lot of sh*t flying) and preschool (new models of education, business and governance).
We can bemoan the polarized dysfunction as a civilization-ending crisis, or as the painful birth of a new era. Ignore the midwives and focus on diapers (because there’s a lot of sh*t flying) and preschool (new models of education, business and governance).
The Great Progression
The Great Progression: 2025-2050, Leyden’s new series of essays and interviews for Freethink Voices, roughs out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative...
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April 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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We can bemoan the polarized dysfunction as a civilization-ending crisis, or as the painful birth of a new era. Ignore the midwives and focus on diapers (because there’s a lot of sh*t flying) and preschool (new models of education, business and governance).
We can bemoan the polarized dysfunction as a civilization-ending crisis, or as the painful birth of a new era. Ignore the midwives and focus on diapers (because there’s a lot of sh*t flying) and preschool (new models of education, business and governance).
A joke map from Bush2 divided N America (excluding Mexico) into the “United States of Canada” and “Jesusland”.
The unthinkable may be the only way forward.
whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...
The unthinkable may be the only way forward.
whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...
Tactics to Survive Dictatorship: Secession Enters the Conversation - WhoWhatWhy
If the alternative to dictatorship is civil war, what kind of civil war might be winnable?
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March 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A joke map from Bush2 divided N America (excluding Mexico) into the “United States of Canada” and “Jesusland”.
The unthinkable may be the only way forward.
whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...
The unthinkable may be the only way forward.
whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...
It’s more than ironic that conspiracy theorist are driving the greatest, most destructive conspiracy of the modern era.
February 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s more than ironic that conspiracy theorist are driving the greatest, most destructive conspiracy of the modern era.
Maybe it’s time to try emojis
February 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Maybe it’s time to try emojis
"Red, White and Blueland"? Funny! Erik the Red named the place "Greenland" to trick Vikings into moving to a very non-green place. If Georgia's Rep Carter is encouraging a patriotic MAGA migration, it would be a great boon for the US.
Sorry Denmark (although I like the petition to buy California)
Sorry Denmark (although I like the petition to buy California)
February 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Red, White and Blueland"? Funny! Erik the Red named the place "Greenland" to trick Vikings into moving to a very non-green place. If Georgia's Rep Carter is encouraging a patriotic MAGA migration, it would be a great boon for the US.
Sorry Denmark (although I like the petition to buy California)
Sorry Denmark (although I like the petition to buy California)
At this point, either sane Americans awaken and recognize that the chaos is also an opportunity for them to step forward with genuinely new visions and models… or the occasional greatness of the US will be a thing of the past.
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
At this point, either sane Americans awaken and recognize that the chaos is also an opportunity for them to step forward with genuinely new visions and models… or the occasional greatness of the US will be a thing of the past.
The opportunity in today's chaos
December 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
The opportunity in today's chaos
If Musk's DOGE really wants to find some savings...
November 30, 2024 at 12:49 PM
If Musk's DOGE really wants to find some savings...
“Humanity is being taken to the place where it will have to choose between suicide and adoration." Teilhard de Chardin
November 28, 2024 at 2:19 AM
“Humanity is being taken to the place where it will have to choose between suicide and adoration." Teilhard de Chardin
“At a certain moment in Nietzsche’s life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate. Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need’. It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge.”
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
November 28, 2024 at 2:16 AM
“At a certain moment in Nietzsche’s life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate. Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need’. It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge.”
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
If we see what we want to see and hear, it will take conscious effort to escape us vs them.
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Mercer Demonstrates That We See and Hear What We Want to See and Hear | The Irrational | NBC
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November 23, 2024 at 9:14 PM
If we see what we want to see and hear, it will take conscious effort to escape us vs them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pP...
A new look at consciousness that aligns with Jung and Campbell's notion of God as an "undifferentiated consciousness" - and that opens the door to the kind of empathy that could release us from "us vs them" aggression.
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
The mystery at the heart of consciousness
"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"
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November 22, 2024 at 2:46 PM
A new look at consciousness that aligns with Jung and Campbell's notion of God as an "undifferentiated consciousness" - and that opens the door to the kind of empathy that could release us from "us vs them" aggression.
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
Excellent talk.
"I don’t think the story of our mayhem and suffering has much to do with bad people doing bad things. It’s good people, or at least normal people under the influence of bad ideas."
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"I don’t think the story of our mayhem and suffering has much to do with bad people doing bad things. It’s good people, or at least normal people under the influence of bad ideas."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAU...
Sam Harris: The great problem of our time
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November 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Excellent talk.
"I don’t think the story of our mayhem and suffering has much to do with bad people doing bad things. It’s good people, or at least normal people under the influence of bad ideas."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAU...
"I don’t think the story of our mayhem and suffering has much to do with bad people doing bad things. It’s good people, or at least normal people under the influence of bad ideas."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAU...
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
November 18, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Then again, if growing up happens to include peering into the quantum realm…
November 18, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Then again, if growing up happens to include peering into the quantum realm…
Ilya Prigogine proposed that no structure can evolve into a higher-order structure other than through a period of chaos. No shortage today. Our political, economic, religious and social structures no longer serve us, and arguing us vs them is distracting us from the needed transformation.
November 15, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Ilya Prigogine proposed that no structure can evolve into a higher-order structure other than through a period of chaos. No shortage today. Our political, economic, religious and social structures no longer serve us, and arguing us vs them is distracting us from the needed transformation.