In this post, I’ll help clarify the concept of Cultural Maturity by taking a quick look at how it compares and contrasts with other views of our long-term future In my upcoming book, Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future, I divide the commonly encountered views of the future into five “scenarios” (to use the language of futurists): We’ve Arrived Scenarios We’ve Gone Astray Scenarios Postindustrial/Information Age Scenarios Postmodern/Constructivist Scenarios Transformational/New Paradigm Scenarios I think of these scenarios not so much as logically arrived at conclusions than as reflections of differing psychological orientations. I’ll outline them briefly here to help bring focus to what Cultural Maturity is—and is not. In later posts I’ll discuss them one at a time and look more closely at how each relates to [...]
"The Big Picture"
Bit Picture Posts include contributions of a more overarching or conceptual sort. Ideas may have their origins in the thinking of any cultural sphere or conceptual persuasion, but they share that they contribute in some significant way to culturally mature understanding. Posts will sometimes be followed by a brief summary using Creative Systems Theory language those who are familiar with the theory’s ideas. . On occasion, posts will specifically introduce notions from the theory.

