Ken Robinson on schools kill creativity (snippets) Thomas Sowell - An Epidemic of Irresponsibility. My theory on how the world really changes – Incrementalism – Part 1. I have a new theory which describes the process of how the world experiences significant change, and therefore helps us understand how to change it.
I want to call it “incrementalism”. UPDATE: I subsequently looked up the term on wikipedia and found a concept very similar to mine (just goes to show there’s no such thing as an original idea). They use the concept mainly for public policy deconstruction, but I will continue to apply it more broadly in this series of posts For people that study change, one of the biggest challenges is dealing with objections or opponents, especially in heavily “contested political arenas”. Most environments are a result of many rounds of continuous bargaining or compromise, leading to an imperfect, but mostly very stable equilibrium. Country Profiles. 14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun. (NaturalNews) A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012.
Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn't mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages.