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• A comment on Conversation: Does society need more interdisciplinary work? Or more well-rounded individuals working together?

  Mar 30 2012: We need both A specialized perspective and wholesome perspectives creates growth in balance. Should we only have one or the other we'd find ourselves getting stuck as a community. Each offers momentum like a professional ballroom dancing -l one person leads direction and the other balance. This makes the dance seem effortless and graceful and yet there's a lot of muscle, thought and physics happening in the dance. If both lead and balance you get chaos and not much grace.

• A reply on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Mar 14 2012: You have an interesting take. I didn't get that message from his talk. His arguments, to me, fall more on the side of group then they do on the yin and yang of individual evolution and the yin and yang of group evolution. It is not one or the other in my mind it is both. Usually, when people are part of a political group they are in it for themselves because this group feels most safe for them. Group ideals don't necessary represent what is truly healthy for all humanity. I'll take a portion of his perspective but not the whole.
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  A reply on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Mar 14 2012: I agree with you. He seems to mix metaphors and the message left is a cyborg result.

• A comment on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Mar 14 2012: This talk in my mind misses a key points that a person needs to reach a place of self-love, self-responsibility, self-discipline, self-knowing and knowledge etc....all great movements come from a person who reaches these things in self and inspires others. Man's greatest evolution will not be to become a cyborg organism. It is my belief that we become amazing when we honor our individual selves not in a place of greed but from a place of being our best selves and honoring who we are as individuals then since we are empowered through self-love/worth, we want to naturally cultivate an empowered community. This community understands the value of the ebb and flow of self care and community care. There are plenty examples of groups who don't value the self that end in apathy or death.