Regeneration + Ecosystem Strategy + Brand Activism + Innovation + Art
The work of leadership has never been more clear: it is to bridge the gap — across all boundaries — and to create a way forward for the common good. The pyramid of love reminds us that it is possible to resolve conflicts and escalate peace.
Says David Hinds of Steel Pulse: “Where there is no love, there can be no justice; and where there is no justice, there will never be peace.”
That about sums it up.
As the Senate holds its second impeachment trial of president Trump, they would be well advised to educate their members on how incitement and escalation of hate can indeed lead to violence and even genocide. Here’s a slightly modified version of the Pyramid of Hate developed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Echoes and Reflections, and the Holocaust Center for Humanity.
The pyramid reminds us that hatred can be used to dehumanize people by race/color, tribe, ideology, and faith. The misleader polarizes and radicalizes their followers, pushing them up the pyramid of hate.
The new normal is the old normal. How much has really changed since the days of the East India Company? We are accelerating backwards, back to a world run by a few, for the few.
The question we should ask now is: what does it mean to decolonize the corporation?
It means understanding that everything we do in business is built on the foundation of the brutal business model handed down to us by Robert Clive and friends.
Maybe I’ll talk about this in this week’s Thinkers50 Radar webinar — or maybe I’ll just stick to Brand Activism and the Wicked7 Project.
P.S. – did you know the East India Company came back to life in 2004?
What’s wrong with Elon Musk? And why do we—as a society— allow billionaires to play games with our future?
Maybe it’s because we think Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and/or Bill Gates will save us with their genius. Don’t count on it, children. The revenge of the nerds is nigh.
Here’s what Musk had to say: “You can’t see where the implant is and he’s a happy monkey. We have the nicest monkey facilities in the world. We want them to play mind-Pong with each other.”
The line between Trump and Musk is a fine line indeed.
Now check out Zuckerberg and his “monkey experiment” —
We are all “happy” monkeys now.
How high do we have to jump for that banana?
UPDATE: see also — the #happypig