Considering the loss of faith in and impending collapse of familiar institutions, what could a new media and higher education network merged with technology look like?

The first came from Copernicus. The second came from Darwin. We're living through the dawning humility of the third realization right now. How can we use it to be better than we've been?

As humans evolve, so do our social attitudes and morals. Ten years from now, what is the number one current behavior that we'll look back on in disgust? Incarceration and factory farming are runners up to the top spot.

Let's talk about forced stereotypes, the motivation of boredom, suspiciously overeager shamers, binary violations and the perverse comfort in conspiracies.

Did we turn the old carnival exploitation of physical deformity into modern ratings dependence on conflict starring the mentally ill and deranged?

For decades being a company man who dissolved into a corporate structure, committed to being reliably conformist and not saying anything controversial, was the most secure way to climb the ladder to success and own material status.

In a time of transition this will suck you down into the mud. Abstract ideas, critical thought, creativity, collaboration, adaptability, leadership, emotional intuition and daring are the tools of opportunity and purpose as old structures and ways of thinking tumble down.

The chain reaction of COVID, student debt default, college and university institutional collapse, resistance against new bailouts, simultaneous elections, desperation and mob rage will round out this bullshit year. 2020 will become 2008 on a much larger scale.

Keep yourself smart. Converse, connect, create and pay attention to opportunities for implementing a new networked, intelligent era. The future depends on it.

The race conversation, as we've repeatedly said for years, needs to happen. But why are we so bad at it? How can we advance and make an emotional topic more sophisticated?

In this episode I inject some context and nuance to the lazy back and forth lobbing of casual insult and accusation. This includes institutional, cultural, individual intellectual and historical critiques.

If you're challenged by what I say, pass it along. Through engaging again, we will rise above and beyond this low moment.

Only thought and collaboration will defeat totalitarianism in it's cruel or protecting forms.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept of dystopia, listen to this explanation of how vision can turn to control in the context of two classic stories.

In a world lacking markers of adulthood, principles, emotional regulation and accountability how do boys and girls become men and women anymore?

Perhaps mental maturity ought to overtake physical age and status in our more rigorous modern definition?