THE JURLANDIA INSTITUTE
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Looking ahead, no human should focus on the rise or fall of this or that nation, empire, or global region. Our only useful datum of analysis should be the success of all humanity — within deepest ecological, intellectual, and nomospheric context — premised upon "human nature" that is inseparable from freedom of inquiry.
Our starting point must be to examine and comprehend this logically-inescapable human nature — and how it is interwoven with human nurture ... indeed, with a culture of nurturance supporting the perennial goal of Regenerative Intelligence Still Evolving, or RISE. Our only useful datum of analysis, in effect, is RISE. See full essay here.
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"Jurlandia" is pronounced "yur-land-eeyah";
its root, "iur", is that of
"jur" in
jurisprudence.
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"When a democracy guarantees freedom of inquiry, association, and expression, including a free press; and establishes checks and balances among governmental organs that include an independent judiciary; and ensures free and fair elections for legislators and highest-level executive officers; and forbids electoral and governmental corruption in its many sordid guises, including debasement of the Conversation of Democracy by lies, defamations, unfair restrictions on media access, unwarranted governmental secrecy or manipulation of truth, and the silencing or unjust prosecution of critics; when, in short, a democracy ordains institutions by which majority and coalition rule is competently balanced by minority and individual rights — and otherwise establishes Ordered Liberty based on the Rule of Law governed by the Rule of Reason — then, and only then, does it merit being called a constitutional democracy." From The Cybernetics of Society.
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The Jurlandia Institute
illuminates
and promotes
constitutional democracy,
integrative
jurisprudence,
and
the goals of
Regenerative Intelligence Still Evolving
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Lowry Wyman and
Barnabas
D. Johnson
are Jurlandia's co-founders,
having started this
internet-mediated
Conversation of Democracy
in 1991
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Persuasive evidence suggests that simulating a modern "human life" requires simulating a culture, a world, including Aristotle and Shakespeare and Bach, all of which requires simulating our solar system, our galaxy, our universe (which, by definition, is One — no matter how multi-dimensional or otherwise incomprehensibly mysterious). To simulate all these probably requires a computer about the size of, well, that universe. Conclusion: There will never be another Aristotle, Shakespeare, Bach, or you. So make the best of being real, as you cannot be improved upon in any simulation.
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