Archive - The Primacy of Being

Werner Erhard's Enlightenment

Somewhere on the Golden Gate bridge in 1971, Werner Erhard woke up. He would go on to found est and Landmark and change an entire culture

Jun 11 •

A Prayer for Wisdom in a time of unravelling

Cultivating the wisdom to hold ourselves, each other, and our world with care. To make the choices to give our children and all life a flourishing…

Jun 9 •

On value misalignment, ecological crisis and the need for wisdom (Wisdom, Value and Choice Part I)

Our current systems misalign value creation with compensation, leading to ecological crises and flawed measures like GDP. But how do we correct them? In…

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Truth is a mountain with no top

But we can still sense up (righter) even if we cannot find a summit (ultimate truth). It is a relativist fallacy to conflate no perspective being final…

May 6 •

April 2025

So you want to create social infrastructure to rebuild the better future world when this one breaks down ...

Fellowship and spiritual warriorship will be key whether you want to seed a better future or just survive the crisis

Apr 20 •

Why Enlightenment Alone Won’t Save Us (and that's ok)

Learning from bad actors in the Buddha’s Sangha about the limits of Love

Apr 11 •

March 2025

An introduction to a Politics of Being

Aka an Ontological Politics or a Politics of a Second Renaissance. Starting from the question "Why do we need a new kind of politics?"

Mar 18 •

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February 2025

Trump, Neo-fascism and the Crisis of Modernity

Fascism arose in response to the crisis of modernity. With modernity again in crisis fascism may be on the rise again.

Feb 24 •

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Some nice data tracing the rise of woke-ness and postmodern values

From two nice articles by David Rozado

Feb 13 •

January 2025

What Lightcone Infrastructure's financial crunch tells us about the effective altruism community's ecosystem and funding

Lightcone's wonderfully detailed report sheds light on the financial background of the emergence of EA/rationality as a social force

Jan 7 •

December 2024

Isn't it all going to be fine? A flowchart to map the different ways people respond to major social problems / crises

This rough map looks at the three different stages in reacting to significant social problems like climate change, growing inequality, AI x-risk etc

Dec 10, 2024 •

November 2024

A sword which is well forged never loses its golden color

Janwillem van de Wetering’s The Empty Mirror. An early classic of western zen encounters.

Nov 21, 2024 •

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