Judge and Be Judged

Before certain misguided individuals take my call to start judging people too seriously, here are some important caveats. In order to judge someone, you must be willing to be judged. That just reflects a condition of our existence, because people are often judged for their judgments. But it is my intention that no one use this system who doesn’t wish to participate in being evaluated by it. No one can stop you from using the Care/Aware Index if you intend to avoid being assessed by it, but your deceitful behaviors will be obvious, especially to trained practitioners. Since using the CAI requires you to assert your opinion of another, the more you use it, the more exposed your thoughts become.

The ultimate goal of making these assessments of others is to understand oneself and each other. Some seek this information for Continue reading “Judge and Be Judged”

Intro to the Care/Aware Index

I am not a social scientist, nor philosopher, but I play one in the blogosphere. And in that capacity I suggest that humanity has the ability now to solve many of its most of its threatening social problems. Simplistic explanations for violence and famine such as Evil, or the difficulty in getting disparate groups to agree, are just not productive. But, my simplistic explanation might be – many social problems are caused by people who aren’t aware or don’t care about others around them.

Think about poverty, crime, intolerance, war… We now understand much of what causes or contributes to all these issues.  We extract Continue reading “Intro to the Care/Aware Index”

Disclaimers and clarifications

Participastory is devoted to exploring human interdependence. That means hiking, sometimes crawling through the rugged terrain of interpersonal relationships, all the while scribbling notes, taking photographs, collecting samples. The need to fend off attack is always present.  Now that I hope I’ve made it sound exciting, here are some clarifications and disclaimers.

You can learn how people affect each other in many ways. Reading, discussing, scientific observations and experiments. Or just close people-watching. We’re going to do a little of all that.

Many of my future posts will suggest ways to start conversations. Continue reading “Disclaimers and clarifications”