14-12-2011, 06:26 AM
It is time for the management team here at Deep Politics Forum to begin work on a new title signalling a new depth. I'll leave it to y'all, but here's what comes to my mind: it's a deeper level by a magnitude, and it involves a significant aspect that requires a neuroscientific bent or expertise. Here's the operative thesis:
1) People, sociology, governance, politics, a forum for exchange... all derive from experiential and sensory intake, at least until recently...
2) Understanding the above at a level where one can influence it requires a breadth of cognitive, intellectual, sapient and -- recently -- information management expertise and knowledge;
3) Having an awareness of how the human mind's intake of information affects #1 has been the subject/focus of many an intelligence agency and government;
4) The medium for controllable intake is demonstrably the human eye, but also in terms of his or her diet of information;
5) It is a truism that
Our capacity for using attention
(the information we allow into our consciousness)
is, in fact, what determines
the content and quality
of our lives.
Attention is the most important tool
in the task of improving
the quality of our experience.
6) Therefore: Deep Politics Forum must be ...
1) People, sociology, governance, politics, a forum for exchange... all derive from experiential and sensory intake, at least until recently...
2) Understanding the above at a level where one can influence it requires a breadth of cognitive, intellectual, sapient and -- recently -- information management expertise and knowledge;
#1 requires breadth; #2 requires depth.
3) Having an awareness of how the human mind's intake of information affects #1 has been the subject/focus of many an intelligence agency and government;
4) The medium for controllable intake is demonstrably the human eye, but also in terms of his or her diet of information;
5) It is a truism that
Our capacity for using attention
(the information we allow into our consciousness)
is, in fact, what determines
the content and quality
of our lives.
Attention is the most important tool
in the task of improving
the quality of our experience.
6) Therefore: Deep Politics Forum must be ...
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"