“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.” WorldIdeasWarEndsMomentsProblemActionSciencePoliticalHumanitySocialNatureNaturalConsciousnessConditionsCapitalismCrisisClimateClimate ChangeSpreadLikesAround The WorldAccomplishedCollectivesMidstThat MomentSpheresMainstreamTailsHostile80sLapIdeologicalMagnitudeCrusadesSocial ConditionsCollective Action Author:Naomi Klein
“Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.” LongHateNaturalIgnoranceRepublicanConsciousResourcesVoteWingsUnconsciousCollectivesApathyRight WingNatural ResourcesShortageConscious And Unconscious Author:Janeane Garofalo
“In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.” IndividualInterestImaginationNaturalPaintingAppealsFeaturesCollectivesSpheresInvestigationVividTruthfulness Author:David Hume
“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.” SoulStatesIndividualNationsSocialNaturalClassBloodRelatedCollectivesOrgansNationalitySocial ClassCohesion Author:A. C. Cuza
“The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.” ThinkingMenWorldMadeWisdomUniversePoliticsIndividualLostSocialNaturalAnimalResponsibilityEconomyEconomicCreaturesConceptsFilledWesternArisePsychologicalLiberalismBagsCollectivesSubstitutesIsolatedSocial ResponsibilityComponentsFragmentsTotalitarianismTotalityWestern WorldPhysiologicalLibido Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.” EnergyNaturalEconomyCreativeIntellectualCapacityOrganizationFavorsCollectivesSelectionNatural SelectionHarnessCoordinates Author:Justin Rosenstein
“The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.” NeedsHumansTodayIndividualSocialUnderstandingRealizingNaturalChallengesOur LivesPromiseOffersEqualBehaviorIntellectualStructureDeeperWelfareCollectivesImprovingSocial ScienceNatural ScienceDeeper Understanding Author:Nicholas A. Christakis