For the paperback edition of his new book Life Inc., Douglas Rushkoff asked me to write a couple of pages about Evolver. Here's a draft of the text. It'd be great to get your comments, especially as we're trying to refine our language for describing Evolver for the launch of the Evolver Social Movement.

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Evolver

I'm working on some of the text for the Evolver Social Movement, and in it, I'm writing some of the things we want to accomplish, such as sustaining/improving Evolver and RS, putting on Evolver festivals and conferences, creating complimentary currency systems, supporting regional communities, and doing partnerships on campaigns important to us (like preserving the rain forest).

It's probably just the end of winter, but today I feel so hopeful and nostalgic for what's to come. Does that make any sense? Can one be nostalgic for the future?

Lately on this site there's been so much talk of money and logistics, planning ahead. It has to happen, but it often feels so harsh to me. And I do have $5.00, by the way.

The quote on the Evolver home page says, “Banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for.” - Hopi Elders. I love this quote. It must be part of the Evolver network’s intention or it surely wouldn’t be quoted on this homepage.

Has anyone seen this? Thoughts on it? It's out in theatres now. I've been e-mailing and talking to a Buddhist monk recently and he said....

(For a better looking version, go my blog at http://daedalus-3.blogspot.com/2010/03/universal-heart.html)

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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Empires are doomed to fall by Max Dashu

Our potential may reach farther than what the brain-as-computer metaphor provides. This is the idea that the basic computing component of the brain is the neuron and therefore our potential is limited to what is possible at the cellular and chemical level. Furthermore, the brain can be described in terms of computing power and capacity is limited by a finite number of brain cells. Look deeper.

Soooo...I recently learned that this crazy guy named Parmenides who was a Pre-Socratic philosopher in ancient Greece had this dream that a goddess was showing him the true nature of reality and that this dream was the basis for his philosophical standpoint: that it is impossible to think of nothing, furthermore impossible to think of something that does not exist.

The other day I had a good friend ask me, "Why the fuck do you care so much about the people in the world, or for that matter what happens in the world?"

"What are you talking about?" I replied.

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Regardless of the pervading trends of narcissistic nihilism, the necessity and need for the participation in Beauty and Great Art has never gone away. As expressed by the Symbolist writer G.-Albert Aurier in the early 1890’s,