We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.