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All From One: As JFK said “our problems are man made” and, paraphrasing, therefore we can solve them. They aren’t mutations, they are the shadows of our own creations. To the extent that the existential crises we face now are different than the existential crises facing our ancestor ten thousand years ago, our crises of our own learning – they are the effects of what we learned to bring into the world and what we have failed to learn about being in the world together.
Since human pre-history every wonder of the human world, every human achievement; every spiritual, technological, social, economic, legal, political, educational, scientific, medical, nutritional innovation that makes our lives different and better than our ancestors are all explications of human learning.
In terms of the content of our consciousness and the abstract processing creating the contents of our consciousness, the off-scale differences between an average human 10,000 years ago and today are all consequences of learning. We learned to create technology that profoundly extended, through artificial mental representation processes, our capacities to learn.
Beginning before we are born we are always, at all times and in every way, learning to become who we are becoming. Everyone of us learns to walk and talk, to be a child among our people, and to become the persons we become. There is nothing we can say about ourselves, or anything else for that matter, that is not a description of our learning from the perspective of our learning. (observer / observed)
All of our crises flow from generations of human learning. Our greatest environmental crises, the pollutants in our air, water, soil, food and climate didn’t start with our generations. Having spiritual, political, ideological and psychological tribes constantly at war with each other didn’t start with our generations. Generations learn in the wake of transgenerational learning. They inherit conditions in the material world caused by their ancestors learning and learn to become themselves in spiritual, political, ideological and psychological ways shaped by their ancestors learning.
One For All: All of our crises involve collective behaviors. They are either perpetuated, permitted, or ignored by a large number of people. The measure of improving any given collective crisis is necessarily a measure of the behaviors of a collective. Within human agency there is no path between today’s challenges and tomorrow’s versions that isn’t fundamentally determined by our collective learning. The difference between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and its decedents today is collective learning. Progress reflects collective learning. All social change efforts are attempts to facilitate collective learning. All social efforts to resist progress reflects collective learning.
One for all: The one thing most commonly relevant to improving any and all aspects of collective behavior is learning.
strong>One Challenge Rules Them All: All of our challenges are, in essence collective learning challenges. They are outgrowths of our collective learning and our ongoing collective learning will determine their futures.
Acquired Learning Disabilities
Misattributing Learning
Other Words for Learning
Misattributing Learning’s Effects
Healthy Learning
Always Learning to Become
I am Learned
Redefining Learning
Survival of the Learnist
Milestones in Learning
Adaptive Evolving Learning
First Sense Learning
Share Learning Instincts
We are Learned