RETHINKING OUR VISION OF SUCCESS
To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves. Tue, Oct 15, 2019 Rethinking Our Vision of SuccessA Conversation with Robert Pollack [10.10.19] How do we understand that our 100,000-fold excess of numbers on this planet, plus what we do to feed ourselves, makes us a tumor on the body of the planet? I don't want the future that involves some end to us, which is a kind of surgery of the planet. That's not anybody's wish. How do we revert ourselves to normal while we can? How do we re-enter the world of natural selection, not by punishing each other, but by volunteering to take success as meaning success and survival of the future, not success in stuff now? How do we do that? We don't have a language for that. ROBERT POLLACK is a professor of biological sciences, and also serves as director of the University Se...