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Our Modern Crisis of Purpose—and How Humanities Needed “Growing Up” Becomes the Only Option Going Forward

by Charles Johnston | posted in: Cultural Maturity | 0

This podcast examines today’s critical need for a new guiding story and Cultural Maturity’s effectiveness as a response.

 

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Pertinent Links

How Change In What It Means to Lead are Redefining the Human Task

What Cultural Maturity is Not #2: Postmodern Pseudo-significance

Cultural Maturity’s Cognitive Reordering

The Dilemma of Trajectory

Maturity and Polarity

Patterning in Time

Multiple Intelligences

Redefining Wealth and Progress

Transitional Absurdity: How the Ludicrous Can Be Consistent With Hope

U.S Presidential Election: Reflections From the Perspective of Cultural Maturity

Money as Ideology

The Digital Revolution and Cultural Maturity: Synergies and Traps

What Cultural Maturity is Not #1: Techno-utopian Delusions

Climate Change and Culture’s Big Picture

What Cultural Maturity is Not #2: Postmodern Pseudo-Significance .

An End to War As We Have Known It

Making Sense of Terrorism: What We Too Often Miss

The Future of Morality: How Future Moral Questions Will Require Capacities New to Us As a Species


 

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