THE SOCIAL ENGINE ROOM

Social engineering is an ugly phrase -- heavy, non-dancing, useless by its lack of poetry and invisible become of its omnipresence. We are all constant social engineers for society is nothing but a massive swaying of All by each, informed by understanding (such as it is) and empowered by technology (such as it is).

We are doing it, so let us do it well.

Let us have the courage for Truths along with the stomach for contingency, the living ethics which can against deploy creative Truths, legislative Truths whose origins are in the harmonics of natural complexity, the commonality of the human and the terrestrial templates, and who are brought to life again and again, over aeons, by the acuteness of the philosopher and the effectiveness of the social conversation. The effectiveness of its protocols...