Reimagining Our World

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss the imperative need for the global community of nations to identify and agree upon a set of global ethics that can then be used to underpin new institutions of global governance and be woven into their very infrastructure.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode entitled “The Emperor Has No Clothes” we offer an honest assessment of the flaws in the COP system for managing climate change and propose the fixes necessary if we are to have a prayer of acting quickly enough to keep global temperatures from rising above levels causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and planet earth.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine the reality that there are two simultaneous processes at work in the world today: the process of disintegration and the process of integration. While both are accelerating and moving to a climax, we’ll explore how it is that they are actually working for us rather than against us.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we explore the idea that we are each born with a predetermined capacity or potential and that what matters isn’t the amount of potential we have but how much of it we actualize by actively exercising our free will.

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode we consider our long-standing habit of responding to crises by reaching for expedient solutions and the consequences of this knee-jerk behavior. We also consider the possibility of replacing it with a new, more constructive habit of principled action.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine why it is imperative that we forge unity of thought followed by unity of action at every level of society: local, national, and international; and how we might set about achieving this goal.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we reconceptualize our understanding of the role those in power and authority and in that light, examine our responsibility to elect fit and worthy leaders, capable of meeting the needs and challenges of our time.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine the power of the Maturation Analysis as a way to break out of the narrative of limiting beliefs about who we are and our false assumption that we are doomed to repeat our past, both of which are holding us back from building a better world.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we consider the power of the Opportunity Advantage as a tool for leveraging our failures in order to achieve collective growth and create the world we want and deserve.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we consider how our cascading global challenges demand global solutions and the consequent imperative to create a World Parliament equipped with the necessary authority to meet the collective needs and challenges of the 21st Century and beyond.

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a sequel to the previous Episode 9. Here we consider the importance of ensuring that a World Parliament that has proper democratic legitimacy.

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a sequel to preceding Episodes 9 and 10. Here we consider the ways in which nations can be persuaded to cede a modicum of sovereignty to a democratically-elected World Parliament.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we explore the many lessons we can glean from the way the European Coal and Steel Community—the foundation of what we know as the European Union—was created, including its structure and processes in order to build both a new system of global governance fit to meet the needs of our time and a lasting peace. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we explore another lesson modeled by the European Coal and Steel Community that is worth emulating and that is the importance of weaving a set of first principles or shared system of global ethics into the very structure and processes of new institutions of global governance necessary to create a peaceful and just world.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we consider what insights we can glean from reported near-death experiences to help us avoid feeling overwhelmed, anxious, worried, helpless, hopeless and ultimately paralyzed in the face of the cascading problems besetting human society.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss the urgency of revamping our deeply flawed World Court so it can effectively serve the purpose for which it was created namely as the first port of call for nations embroiled in disputes so they can settle their differences peacefully without resort to violence and war. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we explore the principle of the independent and unbiased investigation of truth as an expression of the principle of justice and an effective way to immunize ourselves against unwitting manipulation, self-sabotage, and polarization.

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a sequel of preceding episode 16. Here we explore we consider several tools at our disposal to help us hone the skill of the independent and unbiased investigation of truth. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we consider what lessons we have gleaned from our experimentation with two distinct models of behavior during the coronavirus pandemic: the Collaborative and Cooperative Model; and  the Competitive Model.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we explore a particular form of consultation as an effective application of the principle of justice and a revolutionary tool of decision-making and problem-solving in the best interests of any given group. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we conceive of an entirely new way of electing our leaders that liberates us from the destructive effects of a divisive and corrosive system that no longer serves our best interests and deserves to be discarded.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine why it is time to create an International Intelligence and Inspections Agency that can provide accurate, shared, and reliable information to an International Executive allowing the latter to take swift, decisive, and unified action to preserve peace before it’s too late or to restore it once it’s broken, both of which are crucial in  a time where the ris...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I engage in conversation with Vasu Mohan co-author of a report issued by the International Foundation of Electoral Systems (IFES) on ways to safeguard the electoral rights of environmentally displaced persons.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss the urgent need for creating a global system of collective security backed by an international standing force as an indispensable foundation for building a lasting peace and a powerful bulwark against war, including nuclear war and world war.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we attempt to raise our consciousness about one of the deepest and most challenging problems facing the United States, namely, anti-Black prejudice. We do this by sharing illuminating highlights from, and offering reflections on, the book entitled “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson.