October 14, 2010 Interactivities between IF’s Main Activity Areas In my last entry I described some of the main differences among IF's principal activity areas. I also pointed out that some of these differences were sources of important interactivities in...
October 12, 2010 The White Stripes, Obstacles, Tensions, and Creativity Near the end of the rock documentary The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, the White Stripe’s frontman, Jack White, talks about the importance of obstacles and tensions for...
October 7, 2010 Differences between IF’s Main Activity Areas IF’s three principal operations areas are: sanctuary projects, small group public discussions, and education. Here are some of the important differences between these main activity areas—differences which, as I’ll...
October 6, 2010 How to Evaluate an IF Policy Possibility⎯Part 1 The first step, of course, is to understand the possibility: what it says and what it doesn’t. This almost inevitably means reading the description of the possibility, and the reasoning...
October 6, 2010 What’s Different About IF Policy Discussions? The Interactivity Foundation (IF) promotes the thoughtful consideration of a wide range of conceptually contrasting policy possibilities in selected areas of concern. One way that we do this is through...
September 17, 2010 The Questions We Ask At the dawn of western philosophy Socrates was asking questions in the Athenian agora. The whole of western thought has arguably been developed in search of answers to the questions...
September 13, 2010 Democratic Discussion Our founder, Jay Stern, thought that IF’s citizen staff work reports could be an aid to democratic discussion in the United States. But what, exactly, is a democratic discussion or,...
September 9, 2010 Allocating Discussion Resources Democratically Who should receive the resources available to organizations interested in promoting democratic discussion? It’s an important practical and moral question, regardless of the size of the organization. It’s also inescapable,...
September 8, 2010 If An Idea Does Not Sound Absurd, Then There’s No Hope For It “If an idea does not sound absurd, then there’s no hope for it.”—Albert Einstein I recently came across these words from Albert Einstein in the context of an interview on the...