The Current Emergency

We’re not doing so well, as a country or society, these days. Our real emergency situation has more to do with a “social malaise” … only partly due to our current administration. Some in the media ecosphere are also at fault!

Everything I Know About Politics

Most readers will agree that politics is about power. It’s about interpersonal power in social settings. It’s about group influence over governance. Decision-making. Organizing. Motivating followers. Some people are good at the personal side of this – the art of politics. Others expend great effort to understand the dynamics of politics – the ideologies andContinue reading “Everything I Know About Politics”

Moving the Overton Window

We use Joseph Overton’s invention much more broadly than he ever intended — because it works for explaining political and social dynamics!