General Questions & Comments — Cultural Maturity

From the Editor Welcome to the Cultural Maturity Blog. I will be developing it a step at a time over the next year to protect my sanity while finishing up several new books. This site is different in some fundamental ways from most that address current cultural concerns. Besides its specific focus on culturally mature perspective, there is how its interest lies with the long-term. I'll include content only if I think it will be as or more pertinent ten or twenty years from now as it is today. The site is intended to support good current decision-making, but even more, I wish it to be an ongoing learning resource for those interested in developing the more mature leadership capacities that we will increasingly need in all parts our lives. If you sign up for the blog, you will receive information about the blog’s evolution along with the most important of new posts. Thanks. - Charles Johnston

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From Harry Coverston, concerning “A Story for the Future” post: ”At some level I am represented by the teacher you represent here. I do find the defunding of public institutions, the growing disparity of wealth and the extremist tenor of politics in our nation depressing. And I find the Gen Y Millenials I teach who are supposed to save the world from its crises increasingly disengaged and solipsistically wrapped up in their electronic distractions. Where I would question your argument is your tendency to simply presume a causal relationship between the alarm of the educator and the cynicism of the students. Why would that be so? Teachers are but one agent of socialization in a much bigger picture and increasingly are seen as less important than agents such as the media. Moreover, [...]

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Featured Book Title from ICD Press

My new general audience book Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future should be available in prepublication, review copy form in June with formal publication by year’s end. Editorial writers, bloggers, reviewers, and professors interested in receiving a review copy should contact me directly (see contact page.) Two shorter works Humanity at the Threshold—A Brief Introduction to the Concept of Cultural Maturity and Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions will also be released this year. (See ICD Press page for detials.) Charles Johnston.

Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future describes how the future will require not just fresh ideas, but an essential ‘growing up’ as a species. It closely examines this needed next step in our collective development, what it asks of us and what it makes possible. It also examines how these changes are already beginning to happen, in subtle ways altering every part of our human landscape. The book’s core idea, the concept of Cultural Maturity, provides both big-picture perspective for understanding the times we live in and concrete tools for addressing the immense challenges that lie before us. If the concept of Cultural Maturity is correct, it describes changes that are as or more significant than those that brought us modern democratic governance 250 years ago. If it is not correct, it is hard to imagine a healthy and vital human future.