Culture
Confirmation Bias
American society is suffering from a bad case of “confirmation bias.” What is “confirmation bias”? That is where one selects evidence that agrees with one’s own opinions. That is bad enough, but in our digital world, increasingly, the selection of evidence is being done by media corporate giants. When we “like” some post on Facebook, that “like” goes into an algorithm that creates an individual profile of our purchasing, political, social and racial tendencies. Decisions based on what sources will be directed toward one’s inbox will be a ...
Fools Rush In…
Fools Rush In...
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” is a line from a famous love song. As with romantic relationships, foolish behavior is common to Homo sapiens. It is universal across societies and history. But Americans – who frequently are told our nation is “exceptional” and God's chosen people – are exceptionally easy to fool and exceptionally prone to engage in foolish behavior.
This national trait is more then fools and their money being soon parted. Our foolishness is ubiquitous across a broad range of behaviors, ...
Women for Women Presents
Women for Women
Missing and Murdered indigenous Women
Thursday, April 6
6 PM
W4W is extremely fortunate to have Tricia Zunker as our guest speaker on Thursday, April 6th, at 6 PM. She will speak to an issue we all should be aware of and strive to address; the horrible issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Tricia's background is astounding. She has been an Associate Justice of the HO-Chunk Nation Supreme Court since 2013. She has also served as President of the Wausau School Board, is founding director of Central Wisconsin Indigenous...
Women for Women Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Women for Women
Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 6 PM
Women for Women is extremely fortunate to have Tricia Zunker as our guest speaker on Thursday, April 6th, at 6 PM. She will speak to an issue we all should be aware of and strive to address; the horrible issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Tricia's background is astounding. She has been an Associate Justice of the HO-Chunk Nation Supreme Court since 2013. She has also served as President of the Wausau School Board, is founding director of Central Wisconsin Indigenous Peoples' Day Committee ...
Global Resilience Summit 2023
Global Resilience Summit 2023
A FREE 6-Day Online Summit
MARCH 14 - 19, 2023
Come join us in this deep exploration of what it means to be human and how we can heal and repair our relationship with the earth, our fellow species, and each other... learning to live and flourish together sustainably, as one global human family.
The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways (GCILL)
Please visit the site for more information on this exciting opportunity,
Rights of Nature and Indigenous Activism
https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002NUz2AAG&mapLinkHref=&mc_cid=42ff8affd4&mc_eid=da7c25b16d
Rights of Nature and Indigenous Activism
Date and Time:
Mon, Mar 20, 2023; 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Local Time)
Organized By: Great Waters Group
Location: Virtual
Event Organizers:
Jasmine Viges
jasmine.viges@refloh2o.com
(414) 702-7452
Presenters will be White Earth tribal attorney Frank Bibeau and Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. In 2018, the ...
Ground Clutter
How we crave that clear, blue sky after what sometimes seems like an eternity of clouds here in the dead of the Wisconsin winter. Moods brighten as, finally, the awaited sun brushes our winter pines a radiant green, sumac tops flame up and the alfalfa stubble in the field down the road turns from dull tan to flashing gold above the snow. Most of us are creatures of the day, content and absorbed in life under our heavenly canopy. But lately I've begun to sense a seductive, day-sky deception afoot here that obscures our fragile reality and in so doing may lead to our ...
TECTONIC SHIFTS
History matters. As World War II came to an end in 1944, Europe and Japan were in ruins while the U.S. had become the world’s economic powerhouse. At a historic meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, forty-four countries agreed to fix their currencies to the U.S. dollar and the dollar was made convertible to gold at $35 per ounce. Thereafter countries would settle their international trade in dollars, and the dollar became the world’s reserve currency.
As one might expect, having the dollar as the world’s reserve currency proved enormously beneficial to America. ...
Manliness in a techno-digital economy
There is a ubiquitous ad on television where a young man whistles for his wife’s Christmas gift, a dog comes running through the snow, and jumps into her arms. The wife then whistles and a new, big, pickup comes bounding out of the snow. The wife nods to the husband, yes, that’s your gift. He wraps himself around the truck in an emotional hug. What’s going on here? The wife is becoming attached to a sentient being. The dog responds to her affection. The husband is hugging a machine. It is a large machine that can enlarge his vision of himself as a man. Driving it ...