Dupont Summit on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
Friday, December 1, 2023
Historic Quaker Meeting House / Washington, DC
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This is not a classic propaganda broadcast or even America’s Radio Free Europe or Radio Liberty during the Cold War; it is the work of a Nation. This Modest Proposal models itself after the conversations leading up to America's Revolutionary War and struggles to build a Nation.
Read MoreThe Forum on Democracy is in the social transformation business. I found these 15 guidelines documenting the characteristics of complex social systems as the "truck drivers guide" (simple, thank you, Robert) when entering the foreign domain of living systems.
Read MoreRecently, in a Forum message there was a quote from J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, "I never met a criminal who was not a liar." Lately, there has been a lot of lying in American political discourse. Have we come to accept it, under the guise of "balance" perhaps?
Read MoreIndividual stories artfully curated from a people's own heritage and direct experience will form a core section of our participatory MEDIUM of exchange. But the overarching voice of the voiceless is allowing democracy to speak for itself. The Forum will become the crucible of experimentation of giving voice to democracy.
Read MoreIn a time of violence, warfare and bloodshed, what is the use of literature? This was a question addressed at the Lviv BookForum, a three-day literary festival in the Ukrainian city, staged despite – and in defiance of – the Russian invasion.
Read MoreWhat does it mean when a person or People loses the interactions, interrelationships and interdependence of a well run civic order? In traditional societies banishing a person outside the community was equivalent to a death sentence.
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