Putting it all together
Specialization reigns in today’s culture. Like the ancient Hindu allegory wherein blind men analyze different parts of an elephant and – literally incapable of “seeing the elephant in the middle of the room” – produce analyses too narrow to be accurate, specialized analysis and commentary are blind to the big picture.
Because all areas of our lives interact and influence each other in complex feedback loops, what’s vital is not summation, but synthesis: a broad view encompassing the whole. Most writers who can do this have “left the Matrix” to some degree.
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Stop and Assess
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What Awaits Us In 2022?
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Where Do You Stand?
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How Big Corporations and Bill Gates Took Over the UN Food Summit
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Unstoppable Collapse: How to Avoid the Worst
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We Can’t Expect COVID-19 to Go Away;
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Earth's Space Debris
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Feed the Birds!
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For Man and Nature: Building a Community of Life Together
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Rise Up, Say the Birds to the Bread
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