Dear Diary:I’m afraid that we’re missing the boat. In all the confusion in today’s world, we are missing what’s driving the confusion. We’re all preoccupied with the dazzling crazy symptoms, so much so that we can’t look away and beyond the superficial to the deeper root causes.What is driving everyone crazy with information overload, misinformation,Continue reading “Our Ship is Sailng”
Author Archives: Randal B. Adcock
Post-Westphalian Global Ecosystem of Power
The Post-Westphalian Ecosystem of Power: Structural Meta-Forces, Fractal Diffusion of Authority, and the Convergence Hypothesis Preface Whenever someone talks about global power networks, a familiar accusation surfaces: “That sounds like a conspiracy theory.” The label can silence legitimate inquiry, yet history reminds us that conspiracies—real ones—have always existed. By definition, a conspiracy is simply aContinue reading “Post-Westphalian Global Ecosystem of Power”
Living in a World Too Complicated to Understand
Most of us sense it, even if we can’t always put it into words: life keeps getting more complicated. Every year brings more forms to fill out, more apps to master, more passwords to remember, and more rules we’re expected to follow. For many people, it feels like the world is being built for somebody else—and in a way, it is.
Beyond the Illusions of Ideology: Toward a Scientific Politics Rooted in Human Nature
In this imagined collaboration, we—avatars of two ideological poles—find common cause in the rejection of failed abstractions. We call not for a new ideology, but a new discipline: one that respects the nature of the human animal, the systems in which it lives, and the fragile civilization it struggles to maintain. It is time to stop writing on the blank slate and start reading what is already inscribed within us.
We Are All Managers Now: A Ground-Level Call for a Civilizational Paradigm Shift— in the fierce urgency of now
From Wall Street boardrooms to village cooperatives, from TikTok teens to overburdened single parents, we are all managers now. Managers of attention. Managers of ecosystems. Managers of fragile supply chains, of values, of our personal data streams, and of our very identity. And whether we admit it or not, we are managing a system careening toward collapse—unless we radically change how we think, decide, act, and collaborate.
We Need a Grassroots Movement
The author emphasizes the need for a new social order that aligns with human nature, highlighting historical civil collapses due to unmanageable complexity. They critique existing structures like the Strong Man, Holy Man, and Man of Science for failing to adapt to evolving knowledge. A grassroots movement is proposed to enhance collective intelligence and leadership, addressing our inherent diversities effectively.
The Lost Boys of the West: Why So Many Young Men Are Stuck—and How We Might Help Them Find Their Way
A generation ago, the typical arc of a young man’s life followed a predictable script: graduate, get a job, move out, maybe get married, build a life. Today, that script is in shreds—and for a growing cohort of young men in the West, it’s not being rewritten so much as left blank.
Community Systems Science: A PARADIGM FOR DEVELOPMENT
1982 Master of Arts thesis in Community Development, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta
Becoming Human: A Fractal Meditation
You are not lost. You are already in the system. You are already comparing, sensing, navigating. You are already a generator of meaning and value, even when the world feels like too much. But you can drill down deeper into the Code of Nature within yourself.
Stillness as Signal: Meditation and the Akashic Dashboard
In a universe steeped in memory and meaning, where consciousness is not a creator of reality but a mirror of it, the purpose of meditation begins to shift. It is no longer an escape from thought, nor a rigid tool for focus or optimization. Rather, meditation becomes a humble and powerful act of tuning in—not to control what is, but to witness it more clearly.
Randal Adcock 