The Great Reframing: Big Picture Newsletter Series

The Great Reframing: What It Is and Why It Is Essential — If we want to get out of the trouble we are in as a society, we need to realize that the "enemy" is not "the others." It is the destructive way in which we deal with "the others."

The Grand democratic Bargain — Humanity's Best Defense Against "I'll Fight You for It" Rules — A second "Big Picture" essay, this one explaining why democracy is worth defending by looking at the systems it is designed to replace. While no democracies are perfect, they are clearly better than their dystopian alternatives.

Partisan, Power-Over Democracy vs. a Power-With Democracy for All — Those working to save democracy must decide whether they want to work toward the Grand democratic Bargain, or if they want to continue to pursue IFYFI rules to overpower the other side. The first will actually help save democracy. The latter, likely, will not.

Adapting Information Feeds to Support the Great Reframing — If we are going to succeed at the Great Reframing, we need to reclaim our "information agency" and alter our business-as-usual information feeds.

Constructive Confrontation: The Key to Making the Grand democratic Bargain Work — Constructive confrontation takes the lessons from conflict resolution and peacebuilding and applies them to advocacy. The result is a strategy that is less likely to provoke backlash, and hence is more likely to succeed.

Making Democracy for All Work At the Scale and Complexity of Modern Society — An explanation of how scale and complexity makes conflict even more intractable and an introduction to what we see is the best strategy for addressing this problem.

The Massively Parallel Approach — the Key to Dealing with Scale and Complexity — The 7th installment of our "Big Picture Series," this post explains why "massively parallel" action--in peacebuilding, problem solving, democracy building, and civic renewal is the best way to deal with the staggering complexity and scale of society-wide conflicts.

Stipulating the Terms of the Grand Bargain: Things to Think About and Work Toward — A list of questions we need to answer as we consider how the democracy we are working for should be structured and should function.