tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331938782012-01-05T14:08:29.455-06:00Thoughts about the philosophy of <a href="http://ecologyofjoy.com/">The Ecology of Joy</a>: <ol><li>Changing Motivation from fear to JOY</li><li>Changing Linking from dominator to PARTNERSHIP</li><li>Cultural Transformation: the Medium is the Massage</li></ol>Dave Devereaux-Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00570053066754794566noreply@blogger.comBlogger861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33193878.post-63268526444069358532011-12-29T15:19:00.001-06:002011-12-29T15:20:11.199-06:00

Center for Investigating Healthy Minds Started in part because of a challenge by the Dalai Lama to Richard Davidson - (my paraphrasing) we investigate unhealthy minds, why not investigate healthy minds?

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By ANDREW MARTIN Published: December 26, 2011 It’s a great time to buy a television, and Ram Lall, a television salesman, isn’t happy about it. In a basement showroom of J&R, the huge electronics store in Lower Manhattan, Mr. Lall says the days of making big money from televisions are in the past. Pointing to a top-of-the line, 55-inch Sony television, Mr. Lall said it would have sold for $6,000

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How Meditation May Change the Brain - NYTimes.com Ecojoy tells us that our brain is shaped by the culture in which we exist, and the media which affect us.

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Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change - NYTimes.com

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By Lera Boroditsky  | January 20, 2011  I am standing next to a five-year old girl in pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York in northern Australia. When I ask her to point north, she points precisely and without hesitation. My compass says she is right. Later, back in a lecture hall at Stanford University, I make the same request of an audience of

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Can blocking a frown keep bad feelings at bay? (Jan. 29, 2010) by David TenenbaumYour facial expression may tell the world what you are thinking or feeling. But it also affects your ability to understand written language related to emotions, according to research that was presented today (Jan. 29) to the Society for Personal and Social Psychology in Las Vegas and that will be published in the

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Janet advised me to include more definitions, and I found a good definition of heterarchy at Encyclopedia.com. Here is part: A general purpose definition contrasts hierarchies, the elements of which are ranked relative to one another, with heterarchies, the elements of which are unranked, or possess the potential for being ranked in a number of different ways, depending on systemic requirements

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How to Drastically Improve Your Mood: Smilesmile=joy

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Marshall McLuhan talked about the effects of change brought about be media. For example in The Medium is the Massage, McLuhan quotes Alfred North Whitehead The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.McLuhan statesInnumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariable emerge in periods of great technological and cultural

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I was zoning out in the kitchen this morning, feeding the cats and thinking about the Ecology of Joy. I was thinking about the three parts of Ecojoy, and specifically about what motivates people. Fear is effective, but joy is much more powerful.How do we get the message of Ecojoy out? There is so much fear, violence and hate in the world. So what is the trump card of dominator thinkers?

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The crux of Ecojoy, the really important point is that it is not necessary to change peoples' minds, or convince them to be nice. That change will happen effortlessly, automatically, when the relationships between people change from hierarchical to heterarchical. People will hardly be aware it is happening. And the changes in those relationships between people from hierarchical to

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There are so many problems in the world, war, poverty, hunger, injustice. We can change the way the world works by changing the interactions between people. If we find the humanity in everyone we deal with, if we treat the people we interact with on an equal level, the world will change. I call those kinds of relationships partnership, after Riane Eisler's work, and heterarchicalIf we can ease

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I'm on vacation at Bjorklunden in Door County. Danielle and Jennie are taking a watercolor course, and I am catching up with a bunch of Ecojoy posts in the queue.We're right on Lake Michigan, and the sound of the waves is glorious. And the cell phone coverage is poor. There are no phones or televisions in the rooms. The WiFi is pretty good, so I can surf and blog to my heart's content.

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When I ran across The Happiness Project, I knew I had to post it here on Ecojoy! Here's blogger Gretchen Rubin's "about me":I'm Gretchen Rubin.I started out as a lawyer. At Yale Law School, I was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and won a writing prize. I went on to clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.I had a great experience in law, but I realized that what I

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I saw 1000 Awesome Things on the Happiness Blog, and found it a good fit with Ecojoy.

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Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies | Tom Foremski: IMHO | ZDNet.com"My definition of a disruptive technology is that it disrupts."That means the end of newspapers, telephones, cable television, magazines.It means huge changes for music and movies. The RIAA can sue moms for millions, but it won't put the genie back in the bottle again.And it means that General Motors is

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Dr. George Tiller.Stephen T Johns.Two killed recently in Madison.Guns didn't make them safer - guns killed them.Oh, I know, "guns don't kill people, people kill people".People with guns killed people.The philosophy of Ecology of Joy has three parts:Motivation (what motivates people - joy and fear).Linkage (how people link between themselves - heterarchical and hierarchical).Transformation (how

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TV's Fuzzy Future: Left to Their Own Devices, Viewers Are Cutting the Cord - washingtonpost.comCultural transformation, fostered and encouraged by the effects of media...In this case, the Internet is changing television, which changed radio and movies, and which (Internet) is also changing newspapers.And each of these media promulgate metaphor, which we all use to construct our own philosophy.

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White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs' - WSJ.comBy GARY FIELDSWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use...This illustrates the third leg of Ecojoy: cultural transformation fostered and

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I see a lot of people on Twitter looking to make money. I want to see the world change. The world is undergoing major transformation, and I hope to help turn things in the right direction.The elevator of an airplane (the little wings in the back) are what point the nose of the plane up or down, adjusting the attitude. On the back of the elevator, the trim tab is an even smaller movable flap

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In this interview, Cisco CEO talks about, among other things, the transformation from command and control (hierarchical linking|dominator linking) to collaboration and teamwork (heterarchical linking|partnership linking).

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Twitter, the social network site, is a medium for the creation of hierarchies of actualization, as discussed by Riane Eisler in many of her writings, like The Chalice and the Blade and The Partnership Organization.an interview with Eisler

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Actually, the world is already changing due to the effects of Internet communications. But we can all move it along a little faster by using the 3 parts of ecojoy:For motivation, find the joy in the things you do, and help others find the joy in the things they do.Make the links with the people around you heterarchical - equal-to-equal, partnership. Interact with your children, your boss, your

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Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?This article supports the McLuhan and Ecojoy idea that media not only deliver content, but, independent of content, they "rewire your brain". The effect on culture is cultural transformation.(Thanks to Tim O'Reilly)

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My life partner - my wife is Danielle. In 2001, she had a hip replaced. I took time off work (thanks to the Family Medical Leave Act and my employer - the UW-Madison!) and nursed her in our living room. We watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center with our adult son and grandson. We wondered what the future would bring. In October of that year, I lost my sister Nancy due to

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A clinic in Madison has announced plans to perform second-trimester abortions...Protesters Rally On Abortion IssueSurgery Center's Board Oks Abortion Clinic PlanHow does ecojoy help understand the issue?Anti-abortion or pro-life thinking is influenced by binary or single-dimensional thinking - something is either back or white, right or wrong. Taking life is murder. The circumstances do not

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The End of Alone - The Boston GlobeAt our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. What we lose with our constant connectedness.By Neil SwideyFebruary 8, 2009Don't get me wrong. I love technology. It's magical how it makes the world closer, and more immediate. Take, for instance, the real-time way we learned about the plane that skidded off

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Darwin's birthday is coming up on February 12. This just came to me in Wisconsin Week: Reason or faith? Darwin expert reflectsI first became of Professor Numbers was when my daughter and his daughter were childhood friends. I really value living in a community where there is such stimulating thought and discussion.

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An anthropological introduction to YouTubefrom Dr. Michael Wesch:presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.more info: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

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I had an insight this morning about the Ecology of Joy web page. I changed the third point from Media and Technology to Cultural Transformation. Media and Technology foster and encourage the transformation, but transformation is the outcome.

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The current economic crisis is due in part to a failure of the philosophy of Objectivism to accurately reflect the world.Alan Greenspan, strongly influenced by Objectivism, now concedes his error on regulationEcojoy recognizes we are all linked together. Our individual success has little effect in isolation, but a community working together in harmony benefits everyone.

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For some years, the phrase law and order has been used as a keyword to denote an emphasis on fear and to frame political discussion in dominator thinking. There is binary thinking that people can be divided into good and evil, or honest citizens and criminals. From a partnership analysis, people break laws when they believe the risk of consequences is low, or when they believe they have no

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This is from way back in 2005.The Rise of Open-Source Politics | | AlterNetThanks to web-savvy agitators, insiderism and elitism are under heavy attack. The era of top-down politics is over.Putting this in Ecojoy framing, the medium of the Internet (the web) is fostering and encouraging a change in politics from hierarchical linking to heterarchical linking.

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Study: Tolerance Can Lower Gay Kids' Suicide Risk : NPR "All Things Considered, December 29, 2008 · Gay, lesbian and bisexual teens and young adults have one of the highest rates of suicide attempts — and some other health and mental health problems, including substance abuse. A new study suggests that parental acceptance, and even neutrality, with regard to a child's sexual orientation could

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What's in a Word? Plenty, if the word is "marriage." By George Lakoff, AlterNet. Posted February 18, 2004: "The gay marriage issue is not just about same-sex couples. It is about which values will dominate in our society"Excerpt:When conservatives speak of the "defense of marriage," liberals are baffled. After all, no individual's marriage is being threatened. It's just that more marriages are

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Posted: Nov. 9, 2006: Marriage amendment strategy backfires on GOP - JSOnline: It sounded like a good idea at the time.Get the proposed same-sex marriage constitutional amendment on the November ballot to drive up the Republican vote while driving Democrats out of office. The plan worked for President Bush two years ago, particularly in Ohio. So why wouldn't it do the

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I'm starting a series of posts about the Wisconsin Marriage Amendment, passed in November 2006. I'll put together background, and then give an Ecojoy perspective. I'll put Wisconsin Marriage Amendment in the labels, to make it easier to pull these posts together.

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There is a controversy about Barack Obama's choice of Pastor Rick Warren to give the Invocation to the Inauguration. And this helps to better understand Ecojoy.There are many dominator thinkers in the world. We can't change them but we can foster and encourage change. First, establish a heterarchical relationship with the person in question. That means avoiding ranking. Also, avoid binary

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Technologies like the Internet foster and encourage disruptive change. Disruptive change is happening now. It is no longer cost-effective to do business the old, pre-Internet way.Ray Kurzweil has talked about this change as a result of technological change, and he uses the term singularity to describe the effect on society. As digital technology ascends, the current media (newspapers, radio

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Steven Johnson's "The Invention of Air" -- how an eclectic minister/scientist/politician shows that history is a webJohnson uses the life of Priestley to illuminate a theory of history that holds that great people are neither an inevitable product of their times, nor luminous, supernatural geniuses -- rather, they are the product of an ecosystem of influences, technologies, climate, and energy

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This is a post on movie reviewer Roger Ebert's blog. Note that it is Ebert's response to an accusation:I've been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled," a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.Win Ben Stein's mind - Roger Ebert's JournalThe blog entry is getting more responses than anything Ebert has ever

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Fear: The great de-motivator for IT professionalsThis is an opinion column in Computerworld Magazine. This supports the ecojoy idea that joy is the most powerful human motivator.Author Paul Glen saysBut just because fear may be effective when demanding higher productivity from people doing physical labor, that doesn't mean it works on people doing intellectual work, especially those doing

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This study from the BMJ (British Medical Journal): Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study is about the ecology of joy Conclusions People’s happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected. This provides further justification for seeing happiness, like health, as a collective phenomenon.So,

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Obama understands partnership intrinsically. He worked hard to have the discipline to focus on the goal, and to respect others. He keeps relationships in a heterarchical mode. At a time of two wars and an economic crisis, he realizes we all need to work together to resolve the crises.

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Examine the Adam and Eve story in the Bible. There are several version online, like here. The Adam and Eve story is in the book of Genesis, Chapters 2-3.There are several Ecojoy issues in the Adam and Eve story.The time before was the garden of Eden - paradise. There was no shame ( fear) (Genesis 2:25).After the apple was consumed, fear was introduced (Genesis 3:10). The Old Testament frames

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I just saw a segment on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. It was about Mark Johnson and Playing for Change. It is a movie that Johnson made over ten years, with many musicians, knitting together voices and instruments from around the world. It is also a movement to build music schools around the worl to help others learn to make music.Music is a rich medium for communicating ideas, culture and

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My good friend Michael Wellings passed away on August 28. There is a memorium page at the University of Washington. He and I were the same age. He was a person I looked up to for his technical knowledge and his love of sharing his knowledge to help make the world a better place. I'm coming out of a depression about it, and am finally able to talk more about it. He will be missed.

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Do you remember back to when you were one year old?One reason it is hard to remember back that far is that most children learn to speak after that time. And most children learn to read between age four and seven.Media - speaking and reading - change the way we think. Once we have learned to read, it is difficult for us to put pre-verbal memories into a post-literate frame-of-context.Do you

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Fighting Bob FestFighting Bob Fest is an annual Chautauqua featuring progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and entertainment. Fighting Bob Fest carries on the tradition of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette by providing a forum for progressive ideas on issues facing Wisconsin and the nation.I like progressive thinking.But the word fighting in La Follette's nickname is one of those words

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The Internet is a powerful metaphor for heterarchical linking.To understand the metaphor, it helps to understand the Internet.There is no single Internet - it is a network of networks, with a series of voluntary specifications (called RFCs) of how the networks interconnect.Email messages, World Wide Web pages, instant messages, everything sent over the Internet is digital in form and is reduced

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It is Saturday night, and I'm listening to Rockin' John's show I like it Like That on WORT. He's playing some surf guitar music. There are several layers of media at work here... Surf rock music, recorded, played on radio.Surf music began in the 1960's, before the World Wide Web. In the 1990s, the Web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The process of navigating the web came to be called

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One way to study the effects of media and technology is to imagine a time before the medium existed. Would people understand what the song/story/painting was about?For example, songs, television programs, records, oil companies named after Route 66. The highway no longer exists. It was one of the first US highways. What would people think about the song before the highway was built in 1926?

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When we see someone smiling, our brain recognizes the smile, and we begin to feel comfortable, even happy.When we know that Ecojoy is a viable, supportable philosophy, we can smile, and others, seeing us, feel happy too.I just got back from the grocery store. At the store, I saw two sets of parents with children. I smiled at them, and waved at the kids. The parents smiled cautiously, and the

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I just saw The Lord of the Rings on TNT (in my work I work with television). We have a lot of hero mythology - Star Wars, Star Trek, and so many others. In these myths, evil is focused in a single manifestation, and a hero slays the dragon, destroys the ring, or leads a defending army, vanquishing evil. These myths create and perpetuate the fundamental good and evil dichotomy. As discussed

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Our culture is swimming in the words of war.When people have a serious illness like cancer, they are said to be battling cancer. (When Danielle had breast cancer, she didn't feel comfortable with battling, so she imagined a bunch of little social workers escorting the misbehaving cancer cells out of her body.)And we have so many more: the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the battle for equality

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The dog eat dog phrase is a misinterpretation of Darwin's Theory of Evolution (see The Darwin Project, below).Other similar phrases:kill or be killedonly the strong surviveThose words establish hierarchical links, and perpetuate dominator thinking. Those are not Darwin's ideas. And they don't describe the world around us.

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from the TED web site: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It [is a conference that] started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the

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several years ago, one of the questions was asking if there was some way to unify the movements for feminism, racial equality, economic opportunity, social justice, the environment, animal rights, peace, and so on. Gloria said she didn't know, and urged us all to pick a movement, get involved and stay involved.I wanted to say - but I wasn't ready yet - that ecojoy was such a way to unify those

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Politically correct means speech or behavior which is only correct for people who adhere to politics with which I disagree.

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Holding their feet to the fire is a figure of speech invoking a metaphor for torture as a means to motivate using discomfort.In this case, the medium of speech fosters and encourages dominator thinking and hierarchical linking.

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The Media Education Foundation studies the content of media and the ownership of media.The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political and cultural impact of American mass media.

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Media Ecology studies the effects of media, not the content of the media.What is Media Ecology? (Neil Postman) Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival. The word ecology implies the study of environments:

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If you are an ecojoy proponent, how do you convince others to adopt the philosophy? Since ecojoy is heterarchical, it won't work to use fear or shame. Proving that someone's philosophy is wrong or suboptimal immediately moves the transaction into a hierarchical mode.McLuhan mentioned many times that different media create different types of sensory balance, and frequently people will resort to

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Religion and evolution are compatible: see Thank God for Evolution and The Great Story by Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow.

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In dominator thinking, linking is hierarchical - I'm better than you, more powerful than you, richer, have a better religion, live in a better house, behave better, associate with better people. In a dominator environment, success depends on finding and exploiting differences. And sexual preference is certainly an area where there are differences. By pinning a label on a class of people,

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I was thinking about a nice email I got from Margaret. Last week, I was telling her about my dad. He was many things, but one was he was an alcoholic.Alcoholism was difficult for me to understand as a kid. And for adults to understand too. One way to understand is to listen to the song Cherry Red Wine from Luther Alison (go ahead, Google him...). Luther had sadness, anger - desperation in

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I just picked up the book The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart. Something in my subconscious was trying to get my attention about the word intention.I just figured it out. One of the ways people talk about evolution is as if it were intentional. For example, fish evolved lungs so they could breathe air on land, or birds evolved wings so that they could fly.But evolution is not

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People can have morality without following a particular religion.

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Ecojoy is a philosophy, not a religion. The ecojoy philosophy can be adopted by people whether they are religious or not.Like cultures in general, religious cultures (churches) are affected by (heterarchical or hierarchical) link modeling in the media (for example, the Bible, Torah or Qur'an) which they use.

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At first, the Ecology of Joy philosophy seems naive. A common reaction is one similar to the idea of non-violence - to tell yourself that you could accept it, but you would then be vulnerable to dominator thinking from others. This is a normal progression.The term meme describes an idea as if it were an independent entity. If dominator thinking were considered a meme, this fear of vulnerability

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Binary (base two) thinking is thinking in dichotomies like black and white or good and evil. (listen to Evil by Howlin' Wolf.) Binary thinking is a case where media influence ideas about interpersonal linking.Before the written word, our primary means of communication was oral. Stories, poems and songs were passed around person-to-person. Heterarchical. And many different nuances and

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Information Technology - including the Internet - is fostering and encouraging much change in the world. Over on Ecologyofjoy.com I explain the connection. But most people who themselves work in IT don't realize that in addition to creating and maintaining payroll systems, networks and web sites, the technology they enable fosters and encourages the transition from hierarchical to heterarchical

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In a quick hallway exchange, Janet commented on my hierarchy-heterarchy thoughts. Janet points out that hierarchies are useful when working on specific projects and tasks. That reminded me of a similar discussion I had with Riane Eisler. She told me about hierarchies of actualization, which addresses that exact situation - a hierarchy formed temporarily to accomplish a task, and then disolved.

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I came to Madison in 1972 because I thought this is where the revolution was going to start. I was one of many who started WORT (you can listen now, over the 'net). All of the on-air announcers and engineers at WORT are volunteers. One of the challenges of WORT is the issue of management. How do you motivate volunteers who don't get paid? Not just volunteers, but independent-minded

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Misinterpretation of Darwin's theory is frequently used to support dominator thinking. David Loye has invested much time and effort to correct this misinterpretation. The Darwin Project is one of his projects to remedy this situation. Here is another example of his work on Darwin's Theory."In the Descent of Man Charles Darwin wrote only twice of "survival of the fittest" — but 95 times about

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I have some partnership resources on my cable.doit.wisc.edu web page. Those entries pre-date my work on Ecojoy.

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Like newspapers, radio, television and the Internet, language is a medium, and words can be a metaphor for heterarchical or heterarchical linking.For example, the words of war and violence include kill (a comedian succeeding with a routine is said to be killing 'em, a bomb is a type of football pass))There are several authors I have met at WisCon, the feminist science fiction conference held each

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Dr. Richard J. Davidson of the University of Wisconsin - Madison has done significant research into emotions and emotional health.Brain and Emotions Researchmore Brain and Emotions Research

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Dr. Robert D. Enright of the University of Wisconsin - Madison has done a lot of research about the benefits of forgiveness. Forgiveness fits into the Ecology of Joy by showing the benefits of creating and maintaining heterarchical linking with others, and for creating environments where joy can emerge.

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I'm up at Bjorklunden on vacation. After hearing that I was writing about the Ecology of Joy, Kim, one of the staff gave me the following:"It's a choice you can make - to have joy, to find joy and to spread joy."Thanks, Kim!

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Rejection Massively reduces IQFrom New Scientist Magazine 15-March-2002"Rejection can dramatically reduce a person's IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research."It's been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive," says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the

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I'm on vacation, and I will be pushing the Ecojoy stone up the hill a little way. My friend Janet says I need to explain why Ecojoy is needed. So that is the first chunk I will be working on.

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Danielle is trying a trial subscription to Seed magazine, and she showed me an article she thought fit into Ecojoy: The Reinvention of the Self. Its about Dr. Elizabeth Gould's work with marmoset monkeys, and about her discovery of neurogenesis. Prior to Dr. Gould's work, scientific and medical knowledge about brains was that they didn't grow new cells (neurons). Dr. Gould discovered that the

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This from my site The Ecology of Joy:The Ecology of Joy is a philosophy, a way of understanding the world around us, a way to stop the violence, a way to approach peace. On this site, we'll explore the parts of this philosophy, and put them together.There are three parts to ecojoyWhat motivates people.The way people connect together to make cultureThe way media and technology affect

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I've begun writing Ecojoy several times since about 1996 (for example, see Ecojoy). It never came out well. So I got the idea to try it as a blog, hoping I could chip around the edges and start to reveal the joy that is within.

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