A Developmental Take On The News

Author: Jeff Salzman

The Heart of an Integral Life

Excepts from the Daily Evolver Dialogs … a weekly conversation on an integral view of current events, with Jeff Salzman and David Riordan, published by Integral Life. This week’s Daily Evolver focuses on what is at the...

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Torture: Are We Culpable?

Excepts from the Daily Evolver Dialogs … a weekly conversation on an integral view of current events, with Jeff Salzman and David Riordan, published by Integral Life. This week’s Daily Evolver focuses on the subject of...

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Modernist spirituality

Just heard the following ad (on Fox News Sunday) for ChristianMingle.com, a dating site for Christians. Here is the 15-second narration, which was spoken over pictures of happy couples: You’re single. You’re...

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Caught ’em thinking Integrally

Just heard this statement from Richard Hass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, on ABC’s This Week morning show. He was offering advice to Obama about how to deal with the Middle East uprisings. I think...

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Two more cheers for moral progress!

I don’t know if future statisticians will catch it, but today has to be the day the US cultural tide actually turned toward full civil rights, including marriage, for gays. I point to two stories in today’s New York...

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The Many Faces of “Victory”

Excepts from the Daily Evolver Dialogs … a weekly conversation on an integral view of current events, with Jeff Salzman and David Riordan, published by Integral Life. This past Sunday night, we heard the news that Osama bin...

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The end of modern warfare?

I just saw a report that 11 [latest count: 24] of the people who were with Bin Laden at his compound were left behind by Navy Seals and taken into custody by the Pakistani security forces. Let’s pause and notice something...

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Obamapologia #2: Success will win

Another integral view of our integral President. This is from Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein (the little shit is only 26 years old) on Morning Joe. He’s describing the thinking and operational style of the Obama...

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Why I don’t hate Bill O’Reilly

Bill O’Reilly does try to be fair.  In this Talking Points segment he demolishes the Birther myth, and declares that Obama does indeed have a legitimate birth certificate. O’Reilly is the single most popular cable...

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Some perspective on war

This is from Ken Burns’ op-ed in today’s New York Times, commemorating  the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. 620,000 Americans, more than 2 percent of our population, died of gunshot and...

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The Aftermath of Japan

With everything in flux on multiple global fronts, including events in the Middle East, the budget debate in the US, and the frenzied antics of Charlie Sheen, the continuing nuclear crisis story in Japan seems to have been...

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Obamapologia #1: He is Many People

This caught my ear in a recent dialog between New York Times columnist David Brooks and PBS’s Charlie Rose.  Brooks was on the Charlie Rose show promoting his new book, The Social Animal. Brooks is about as integral as...

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Awareness itself is precious

Interesting small study out of France regarding people suffering from “locked-in syndrome”, a disease where you can think and see, but cannot speak or move. Most are happy (72%), and the longer they were locked-in...

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Libya, Evolving

The extraordinary events in the Middle East continue to unfold this week with the revolution in Libya. In a few short weeks, the forty-year-old reign of Muammar Qaddafi finds itself hanging by a thread in Tripoli. In this...

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