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2020-07-27

Nostalgia reimagined

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anticipatory Nostalgia, fake news, Future of community, Future of Democracy, Future of Governance, Future of Identity, Honest Accounts, honest evidence, Marketing, Nostalgia, propaganda, Restorative Nostalgia, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-06-21

Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions

we can’t tell ourselves whom to fall in love with – means that our wrestling with the passions is what brings the self into being. Habits consolidate what control we can have of our passions. Hume gives habit pride of place in his moral accounting, but the key here is to continually assess whether we […]

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2020-05-22

‘The impossible has already happened’: what coronavirus can teach us about hope

In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible. The idea that everything is connected is an affront to conservatives who cherish a macho every-man-for-himself frontier fantasy. Climate change has been a huge insult to them – this science that says what comes out of our cars and […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Foresight, Future Challenges, Future Faith, Future Flourishing, Future of community, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-04-28

What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like

Despite President Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 denialism, a small Brazilian city has one of the most ambitious responses in the world. While Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denies that a serious public health crisis is underway, a small municipality an hour up the coast from Rio de Janeiro has instituted a remarkable and effective COVID-19 response. In Maricá, a […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Future Economy, Future of community, Future of Currency, Future of social security, Social Capital, Social Currency, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-04-14

How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic

Taiwan’s Initial Success Is a Model for the Rest of the World The guiding principle was not top-down control but mutual respect and cooperation. Privacy was carefully protected, and the movements of an individual were not visible to others. This approach supported an astonishing degree of social coordination, which reduced transmission. And despite being an […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Commons, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Future Economy, Future of community, Future of Democracy, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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