Author: gladweaver

What makes a transformational network a tool of peaceweaving?

If we’re looking for a time of high tension and intense polarization, now would be a good example. Covid is raging and political actors are lashing about finding someone else to blame for it, while economic and  social breakdown builds and climate change accelerates.  Deep at the core the invisible shift in values goes on… Continue reading What makes a transformational network a tool of peaceweaving?

How we got this solid foundation of authoritarian values

One point about the indentured servant story is here:  what makes us think we can build a culture of peace on this foundation?  It’s the value system that invented concepts of peace through strength — from the perspective of the ruler, where peace means you have the power to crush troublemakers efficiently. Just to be… Continue reading How we got this solid foundation of authoritarian values

Laying down the footers

There’s a story in this book you won’t like. At least one. The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, Theodore W. Allen, 1997. Chapter 4 page 49. It’s the year 1607 in Virginia Colony. The scene is the dawn of the new America.  Dense, vast, dark forests, inscrutable native… Continue reading Laying down the footers