Bruce Alderman is an insightful, beautiful, and amazing person, and your discussion with him was a joy. He is a deep resource of “real” and “concrete” spirituality, and I have a deep respect for his willingness to experiment, fail, experiment, fail, and fail better. I agree that a major challenge today is “creating economic foundations for interdisciplinary work,” and I really like Mr. Alderman’s phrase that true diversity “accommodates differences without destruction.” Excellent. I also agree that education might be “ground zero” for the transition between the traditional social order and the emerging one, and this is why I think we need as much “education experimentation” as possible, which I fear the current “college monopoly on credentials” is holding back and hindering. And I agree that the Absolute Knower, and Absolute Communities by extension, must find “fitting” in something like “(non)fitting,” which is an “(in)complete” state like we often discuss which suggests A/B. Well done to you both!
Tremendous article Cadell, thank you so much for writing and sharing. You absolutely hit the nail on the head of what is at play today with education and how we can consider education AS transition. Looking forward to the discussion this evening!
This is an exceptional introduction to Dr. Alderman's work, I'm grateful for this opportunity to delve into his thought. I'm particularly intrigued to learn the intersection of Dr. Last's understanding of cybernetics and anthropology with Alderman's expertise of religion and integral systemics. The nods to mathematics in this and throughout many of your substack articles keeps me hooked. The overall tone of this piece around community evokes for me Bruno Latour's endeavors in science education and actor-network theory, so I'd like to think he would have eagerly anticipated your collaboration with Alderman. Thanks again
Bruce Alderman is an insightful, beautiful, and amazing person, and your discussion with him was a joy. He is a deep resource of “real” and “concrete” spirituality, and I have a deep respect for his willingness to experiment, fail, experiment, fail, and fail better. I agree that a major challenge today is “creating economic foundations for interdisciplinary work,” and I really like Mr. Alderman’s phrase that true diversity “accommodates differences without destruction.” Excellent. I also agree that education might be “ground zero” for the transition between the traditional social order and the emerging one, and this is why I think we need as much “education experimentation” as possible, which I fear the current “college monopoly on credentials” is holding back and hindering. And I agree that the Absolute Knower, and Absolute Communities by extension, must find “fitting” in something like “(non)fitting,” which is an “(in)complete” state like we often discuss which suggests A/B. Well done to you both!
Tremendous article Cadell, thank you so much for writing and sharing. You absolutely hit the nail on the head of what is at play today with education and how we can consider education AS transition. Looking forward to the discussion this evening!
This is an exceptional introduction to Dr. Alderman's work, I'm grateful for this opportunity to delve into his thought. I'm particularly intrigued to learn the intersection of Dr. Last's understanding of cybernetics and anthropology with Alderman's expertise of religion and integral systemics. The nods to mathematics in this and throughout many of your substack articles keeps me hooked. The overall tone of this piece around community evokes for me Bruno Latour's endeavors in science education and actor-network theory, so I'd like to think he would have eagerly anticipated your collaboration with Alderman. Thanks again