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For other uses of “Commune” and “Communal”, see Commune (disambiguation) and Communal (disambiguation).

“Collective settlement”, “Utopian society”, and “Utopian experiment” redirect here. For the legal term, see Settlement (litigation). For the film, see The Utopian Society. For other uses of “Utopian experiment”, see Utopian experiment (disambiguation).

Members of the Anabaptist Christian Bruderhof Communities live, eat, work and worship communally.

Kfar Masaryk is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.^[1][2][3] The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision, often follow an alternative lifestyle and typically share responsibilities and property.^[4] Intentional communities can be seen as social experiments or communal experiments.^[1][5] The multitude of intentional communities includes collective households, cohousing communities, coliving, ecovillages, monasteries, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, hutterites, ashrams, and housing cooperatives.

History

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Ashrams are likely the earliest intentional communities founded around 1500 BCE, while Buddhist monasteries appeared around 500 BCE.^[6] Pythagoras founded an intellectual vegetarian commune in about 525 BCE in southern Italy.^[7] Hundreds of modern intentional communities were formed across Europe, North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand out of the intellectual foment of utopianism.^[7] Intentional communities exhibit the utopian ambition to create a better, more sustainable world for living.^[7] Nevertheless, the term utopian community as a synonym for an intentional community might be considered to be of pejorative nature and many intentional communities do not consider themselves to be utopian.^[1] Also the alternative term commune^[a] is considered to be non-neutral or even linked to leftist politics or hippies.^[9][10][11]

Synonyms and Definitions

Additional terms referring to an intentional community can be alternative lifestyle, intentional society, cooperative community, withdrawn community, enacted community, socialist colony, communistic society, collective settlement, communal society, mutualistic community, communitarian experiment, experimental community, utopian experiment, practical utopia, and utopian society.^[12]

Authorship	Year	Definition
B. Shenker	1986	“An intentional community is a relatively small group of people who have created a whole way of life for the attainment of a certain set of goals.”[1]
D. E. Pitzer	1989	Intentional communities are “small, voluntary social units partly isolated from the general society in which members share an economic union and lifestyle in an attempt to implement, at least in part, their ideal ideological, religious, political, social, economic, and educational systems”.[2]
G. Kozeny	1996	“An ‘intentional community’ is a group of people who have chosen to live together with a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their shared core values. The people may live together on a piece of rural land, in a suburban home, or in an urban neighborhood, and they may share a single residence or live in a cluster of dwellings.”[13]
W. J. Metcalf	2004	An intentional community is “[f]ive or more people, drawn from more than one family or kinship group, who have voluntarily come together for the purpose of ameliorating perceived social problems and inadequacies. They seek to live beyond the bounds of mainstream society by adopting a consciously devised and usually well thought-out social and cultural alternative. In the pursuit of their goals, they share significant aspects of their lives together. Participants are characterized by a “we-consciousness,” seeing themselves as a continuing group, separate from and in many ways better than the society from which they emerged.”[3]

Variety

Young musicians living in a shared community in Amsterdam

The purposes of intentional communities vary and may be political, spiritual, economic, or environmental.^[14] In addition to spiritual communities, secular communities also exist.^[15] One common practice, particularly in spiritual communities, is communal meals.^[16] Egalitarian values can be combined with other values.^[17] Benjamin Zablocki categorized communities this way:^[18]

• Alternative-family communities (see Tenacious Unicorn Ranch)
• Coliving communities
• Cooperative communities
• Countercultural communities
• Egalitarian communities
• Political communities
• Psychological communities (based on mystical or gestalt principles)
• Rehabilitational communities (see Synanon)
• Religious communities
• Spiritual communities
• Experimental communities

Membership

Members of Christian intentional communities want to emulate the practices of the earliest believers. Using the biblical book of Acts (and, often, the Sermon on the Mount) as a model, members of these communities strive to demonstrate their faith in a corporate context,^[19] and to live out the teachings of the New Testament, practicing compassion and hospitality.^[20] Communities such as the Simple Way, the Bruderhof and Rutba House would fall into this category. Despite strict membership criteria, these communities are open to visitors and not reclusive to the extent of some other intentional communities.^[21]

A survey in the 1995 edition of the “Communities Directory“, published by Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC), reported that 54 percent of the communities choosing to list themselves were rural, 28 percent were urban, 10 percent had both rural and urban sites, and 8 percent did not specify.^[22]

Governance

The most common form of governance in intentional communities is democratic (64 percent), with decisions made by some form of consensus decision-making or voting. A hierarchical or authoritarian structure governs 9 percent of communities, 11 percent are a combination of democratic and hierarchical structure, and 16 percent do not specify.^[22]

Core principles

The central characteristics of communes, or core principles that define communes, have been expressed in various forms over the years. The term “communitarian” was invented by the Suffolk-born radical John Goodwyn Barmby, subsequently a Unitarian minister.^[23]

At the start of the 1970s, The New Communes author Ron E. Roberts classified communes as a subclass of a larger category of Utopias.^[24] He listed three main characteristics: first, egalitarianism – that communes specifically rejected hierarchy or graduations of social status as being necessary to social order. Second, human scale – that members of some communes saw the scale of society as it was then organized as being too industrialized (or factory sized) and therefore unsympathetic to human dimensions. And third, that communes were consciously anti-bureaucratic.^[25]

Twenty five years later, Dr. Bill Metcalf, in his edited book Shared Visions, Shared Lives defined communes as having the following core principles: the importance of the group as opposed to the nuclear family unit, a “common purse”, a collective household, group decision making in general and intimate affairs.^[26] Sharing everyday life and facilities, a commune is an idealized form of family, being a new sort of “primary group” (generally with fewer than 20 people although there are examples of much larger communes). Commune members have emotional bonds to the whole group rather than to any sub-group, and the commune is experienced with emotions which go beyond just social collectivity.^[27]

By region

United States

There is a long history of utopian communities in America which led to the rise in the communes of the hippie movement—the “back-to-the-land” ventures of the 1960s and 1970s.^[52] One commune that played a large role in the hippie movement was Kaliflower, a utopian living cooperative that existed in San Francisco between 1967 and 1973 built on values of free love and anti-capitalism.

Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times wrote that “after decades of contraction, the American commune movement has been expanding since the mid-1990s, spurred by the growth of settlements that seek to marry the utopian-minded commune of the 1960s with the American predilection for privacy and capital appreciation.”^[53] The Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) is the best source for listings of and more information about communes in the United States.

While many American communes are short lived, some have been in operation for over 50 years. The Bruderhof was established in the US in 1954,^[19] Twin Oaks in 1967^[54] and Koinonia Farm in 1942.^[55] Twin Oaks is a rare example of a non-religious commune surviving for longer than 30 years.

More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community

Madam Preston (2021)

Dan Ditzler Jun 5, 2021 A historical documentary exploring the story of the Preston Ranch in Sonoma County, California

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Leader

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Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract.” The first step is an ontological statement of being beginning with the syllogism: “Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all there is.” The second step is the sense testimony (what the senses tell us about anything). The third step is the argument between the absolute abstract nature of truth from the first step and the relative specific truth of experience from the second step. The fourth step is filtering out the conclusions you have arrived at in the third step. The fifth step is your overall conclusion.

The Ukraine Emergency Translation Group meets every Friday at 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom. We call it the Ukraine Emergency Translation Group but we welcome Translations about anything. Here are sense testimonies (2nd steps) we translated and their corresponding conclusions: (5th steps) this week.

2) Persons relate to technology as they once related to GOD
5) Persons are One Energy of One Infinite BEINGNESS constantly connecting and relating

2) Well being can be effected by another or others.
5)  Truth is whole, complete, perfect conscious beingness.  All there is. 

2) Emotional vulnerability leads to physical vulnerability which leads to sickness and death.
5) The motivation of Truth is invulnerable, “unnatural,” sinless and immortal..

All Translators are welcome to join us on Fridays at 11 a.m. Pacific time. The link is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83608167293?pwd=cFRsckVibXMwTGJ0KzhaV0R2cWJtdz09

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“I like the group interaction and different perspectives. Also, at least for me, it gives me a sense of accountability and keeps the practice fresh in my mind. ” –Sarah Flynn

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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

Charlie Wood, Staff Writer

Merrill Sherman, Graphics Editor

October 19, 2022 (quantamagazine.org)

Introduction

More than a century after Ernest Rutherford discovered the positively charged particle at the heart of every atom, physicists are still struggling to fully understand the proton.

High school physics teachers describe them as featureless balls with one unit each of positive electric charge — the perfect foils for the negatively charged electrons that buzz around them. College students learn that the ball is actually a bundle of three elementary particles called quarks. But decades of research have revealed a deeper truth, one that’s too bizarre to fully capture with words or images.

“This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”

The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form. And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment. Connecting the particle’s many faces has been the work of generations. “We’re kind of just starting to understand this system in a complete way,” said Richard Milner, a nuclear physicist at MIT.

As the pursuit continues, the proton’s secrets keep tumbling out. Most recently, a monumental data analysis published in August found that the proton contains traces of particles called charm quarks that are heavier than the proton itself.

The proton “has been humbling to humans,” Williams said. “Every time you think you kind of have a handle on it, it throws you some curveballs.”

Recently, Milner, together with Rolf Ent at Jefferson Lab, MIT filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and animator James LaPlante, set out to transform a set of arcane plots that compile the results of hundreds of experiments into a series of animations of the shape-shifting proton. We’ve incorporated their animations into our own attempt to unveil its secrets.

Cracking Open the Proton

Proof that the proton contains multitudes came from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1967. In earlier experiments, researchers had pelted it with electrons and watched them ricochet off like billiard balls. But SLAC could hurl electrons more forcefully, and researchers saw that they bounced back differently. The electrons were hitting the proton hard enough to shatter it — a process called deep inelastic scattering — and were rebounding from point-like shards of the proton called quarks. “That was the first evidence that quarks actually exist,” said Xiaochao Zheng, a physicist at the University of Virginia.

After SLAC’s discovery, which won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, scrutiny of the proton intensified. Physicists have carried out hundreds of scattering experiments to date. They infer various aspects of the object’s interior by adjusting how forcefully they bombard it and by choosing which scattered particles they collect in the aftermath.

Introduction

By using higher-energy electrons, physicists can ferret out finer features of the target proton. In this way, the electron energy sets the maximum resolving power of a deep inelastic scattering experiment. More powerful particle colliders offer a sharper view of the proton.

Higher-energy colliders also produce a wider array of collision outcomes, letting researchers choose different subsets of the outgoing electrons to analyze. This flexibility has proved key to understanding quarks, which careen about inside the proton with different amounts of momentum.

By measuring the energy and trajectory of each scattered electron, researchers can tell if it has glanced off a quark carrying a large chunk of the proton’s total momentum or just a smidgen. Through repeated collisions, they can take something like a census — determining whether the proton’s momentum is mostly bound up in a few quarks, or distributed over many.

Even SLAC’s proton-splitting collisions were gentle by today’s standards. In those scattering events, electrons often shot out in ways suggesting that they had crashed into quarks carrying a third of the proton’s total momentum. The finding matched a theory from Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig, who in 1964 posited that a proton consists of three quarks.

Gell-Mann and Zweig’s “quark model” remains an elegant way to imagine the proton. It has two “up” quarks with electric charges of +2/3 each and one “down” quark with a charge of −1/3, for a total proton charge of +1.

Three quarks careen about in this data-driven animation.

MIT/Jefferson Lab/Sputnik Animation

Introduction

But the quark model is an oversimplification that has serious shortcomings.

It fails, for instance, when it comes to a proton’s spin, a quantum property analogous to angular momentum. The proton has half a unit of spin, as do each of its up and down quarks. Physicists initially supposed that — in a calculation echoing the simple charge arithmetic — the half-units of the two up quarks minus that of the down quark must equal half a unit for the proton as a whole. But in 1988, the European Muon Collaboration reported that the quark spins add up to far less than one-half. Similarly, the masses of two up quarks and one down quark only comprise about 1% of the proton’s total mass. These deficits drove home a point physicists were already coming to appreciate: The proton is much more than three quarks.

Much More Than Three Quarks

The Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA), which operated in Hamburg, Germany, from 1992 to 2007, slammed electrons into protons roughly a thousand times more forcefully than SLAC had. In HERA experiments, physicists could select electrons that had bounced off of extremely low-momentum quarks, including ones carrying as little as 0.005% of the proton’s total momentum. And detect them they did: HERA’s electrons rebounded from a maelstrom of low-momentum quarks and their antimatter counterparts, antiquarks.

Many quarks and antiquarks seethe in a roiling particle “sea.”

MIT/Jefferson Lab/Sputnik Animation

Introduction

The results confirmed a sophisticated and outlandish theory that had by then replaced Gell-Mann and Zweig’s quark model. Developed in the 1970s, it was a quantum theory of the “strong force” that acts between quarks. The theory describes quarks as being roped together by force-carrying particles called gluons. Each quark and each gluon has one of three types of “color” charge, labeled red, green and blue; these color-charged particles naturally tug on each other and form a group — such as a proton — whose colors add up to a neutral white. The colorful theory became known as quantum chromodynamics, or QCD.

According to QCD, gluons can pick up momentary spikes of energy. With this energy, a gluon splits into a quark and an antiquark — each carrying just a tiny bit of momentum — before the pair annihilates and disappears. It’s this “sea” of transient gluons, quarks and antiquarks that HERA, with its greater sensitivity to lower-momentum particles, detected firsthand.

HERA also picked up hints of what the proton would look like in more powerful colliders. As physicists adjusted HERA to look for lower-momentum quarks, these quarks — which come from gluons — showed up in greater and greater numbers. The results suggested that in even higher-energy collisions, the proton would appear as a cloud made up almost entirely of gluons.

Gluons abound in a cloud-like form.

MIT/Jefferson Lab/Sputnik Animation

Introduction

The gluon dandelion is exactly what QCD predicts. “The HERA data are direct experimental proof that QCD describes nature,” Milner said.

But the young theory’s victory came with a bitter pill: While QCD beautifully described the dance of short-lived quarks and gluons revealed by HERA’s extreme collisions, the theory is useless for understanding the three long-lasting quarks seen in SLAC’s gentle bombardment.

QCD’s predictions are easy to understand only when the strong force is relatively weak. And the strong force weakens only when quarks are extremely close together, as they are in short-lived quark-antiquark pairs. Frank Wilczek, David Gross and David Politzer identified this defining feature of QCD in 1973, winning the Nobel Prize for it 31 years later.

But for gentler collisions like SLAC’s, where the proton acts like three quarks that mutually keep their distance, these quarks pull on each other strongly enough that QCD calculations become impossible. Thus, the task of further demystifying the three-quark view of the proton has fallen largely to experimentalists. (Researchers who run “digital experiments,” in which QCD predictions are simulated on supercomputers, have also made key contributions.) And it’s in this low-resolution picture that physicists keep finding surprises.

A Charming New View

Recently, a team led by Juan Rojo of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics in the Netherlands and VU University Amsterdam analyzed more than 5,000 proton snapshots taken over the last 50 years, using machine learning to infer the motions of quarks and gluons inside the proton in a way that sidesteps theoretical guesswork.

 The new scrutiny picked up a background blur in the images that had escaped past researchers. In relatively soft collisions just barely breaking the proton open, most of the momentum was locked up in the usual three quarks: two ups and a down. But a small amount of momentum appeared to come from a “charm” quark and charm antiquark — colossal elementary particles that each outweigh the entire proton by more than one-third.

The proton sometimes acts like a “molecule” of five quarks.

Introduction

Short-lived charms frequently show up in the “quark sea” view of the proton (gluons can split into any of six different quark types if they have enough energy). But the results from Rojo and colleagues suggest that the charms have a more permanent presence, making them detectable in gentler collisions. In these collisions, the proton appears as a quantum mixture, or superposition, of multiple states: An electron usually encounters the three lightweight quarks. But it will occasionally encounter a rarer “molecule” of five quarks, such as an up, down and charm quark grouped on one side and an up quark and charm antiquark on the other.

Such subtle details about the proton’s makeup could prove consequential. At the Large Hadron Collider, physicists search for new elementary particles by bashing high-speed protons together and seeing what pops out; to understand the results, researchers need to know what’s in a proton to begin with. The occasional apparition of giant charm quarks would throw off the odds of making more exotic particles.

And when protons called cosmic rays hurtle here from outer space and slam into protons in Earth’s atmosphere, charm quarks popping up at the right moments would shower Earth with extra-energetic neutrinos, researchers calculated in 2021. These could confound observers searching for high-energy neutrinos coming from across the cosmos.

Rojo’s collaboration plans to continue exploring the proton by searching for an imbalance between charm quarks and antiquarks. And heavier constituents, such as the top quark, could make even rarer and harder-to-detect appearances.

Next-generation experiments will seek still more unknown features. Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory hope to fire up the Electron-Ion Collider in the 2030s and pick up where HERA left off, taking higher-resolution snapshots that will enable the first 3D reconstructions of the proton. The EIC will also use spinning electrons to create detailed maps of the spins of the internal quarks and gluons, just as SLAC and HERA mapped out their momentums. This should help researchers to finally pin down the origin of the proton’s spin, and to address other fundamental questions about the baffling particle that makes up most of our everyday world.

(Contributed by Ben Gilberti, H.W,. M.)

The Knight of Disks

With the Knight of Disks we see a man who is deeply committed to practical matters in life – work, career, home and family are his major spheres of influence. He is diligent, hard-working and pays great attention to detail.

His progress in life is a steady, sure development of ongoing projects, which he works through with great industriousness and perseverance. Not for him, risky schemes, nor extravagant business deals. He moves with caution and circumspection, consolidating each step forward before taking the next one.

Some would consider him dull and boring – others would call him prudent and reliable.

The card often comes up to represent a quiet man, whose approach to life is measured and calm. However it’s as well not to be taken in by the sturdy exterior. Disks males have a capacity for deep and boundless passion – they just don’t shout too loudly about it. Whilst life with him may not be a roller-coaster ride, you will surely know what to expect, and what you can count on.

He makes an excellent business partner, particularly for the high-flyer, because he introduces forethought and pre-planning. He’s a faithful and dependable partner, and a committed father.

(via angelpaths.com and Alan Blackman)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Oct 27, 2022 Jude Currivan, PhD, is a cosmologist and author of The Cosmic Hologram: In-Formation at the Center of Creation, CosMos (with Irvin Laszlo), The Eighth Chakra, The Wave, and The Thirteenth Step. In this 2017 video, she elaborates on her interpretation of findings in physics and cosmology that point to the role of information in the origin and expansion of our physical universe. She maintains that, as the universe expands, the amount of information in the universe also increases. This growth in complexity is related to Shannon Entropy — and it leads to a new understanding of entropy and time. She maintains a panpsychist view that the entire universe is conscious. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration. (Recorded on October 27, 2017)

Victor Pinchuk Foundation Sep 10, 2022 The 17th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) – “Ukraine: Defending all Our Freedom” – was held from September 9-10, 2022 in Kyiv. Over 400 leading politicians, diplomats, businessmen, civil activists, and experts from more than 20 countries took part in the conference organized by YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

THE KREMLIN’S VIEW OF UKRAINE — AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

Victor Pinchuk Foundation Sep 30, 2021 Putin’s article on Ukraine is an attempt to absolve himself of responsibility for his actions. It offers the reader meaningless conversations about who “owns” Prince Vladimir and an extremely limited view of even the history of Russia itself. At the same time, this text demonstrates how boring Russia’s view of history is. And this will help Ukraine to show itself as the most interesting country in Europe. Why this article is an opportunity for Ukraine? Find here. #YESBrainstorming

Paul Mulliner

Oct 16, 2022 (paul-mulliner.medium.com)

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”― Nikola Tesla

Although our separate human body persuades us we’re separate and alone in this world, our ‘own personal’ conscious awareness is a unique lens into universal consciousness inside all of us.

A window into universal conscious intelligence in all space, the nonlocal cosmic consciousness that’s the primary fabric of the Universe.

The consciousness throughout the Universe that can be known intuitively around and inside us as a conscious field-stuff, like unseen intelligent light.

It’s the source of our conscious awareness and provides us with intuitive guidance, spontaneous inspiration and insight.

And yet we still know very little about this foundational cosmic field-stuff, this intelligence inherent in the Universe, this nonlocal unity transforming itself into the biochemistry associated with living beings.

The cosmic intelligence continuously becoming the observable Universe is a universal consciousness experiencing human life within us.

And it’s partially because a conscious realization of this non-visible cosmic source hasn’t yet gone mainstream that we continue to have huge problems making the sensible choices that would help us live better.

Help us live more in sync with the planet and with our conscious Universe.

Inspire us to make choices in our politics that provide well-being for all of us, rather than absurd wealth for a tiny minority and relative hardship and insecurity for everyone else.

Reality is a blend of the seen and the unseen.

A blend of the things around us we can see and touch and an underlying non-visible conscious space that’s always aware of our presence within itself.

And it’s the seen world that holds our attention.

Changing this begins with realizing where our attention is focused here and now.

We can direct our focused attention inside ourselves if we choose, into the conscious silence inside us.

Holding an inner focus of attention raises and tunes the frequency of consciousness inside us into a local resonance vortex, helping us more clearly access and realize intuition.

A local vortex of high frequency consciousness occurs when our inward attention is focused inside us.

This tuning vortex is a high frequency resonance envelope within the universal consciousness field and occurs when we inwardly focus our attention.

We’re tuning in to the field, tuning in to the insight and inspiration available to us at higher frequencies within the field.

When we bring the practice of meditation into our life, when we inwardly focus our attention, we’re intuitively tuning in to the wisdom available within universal consciousness.

Raising the frequency of our inner tuning helps us align with universal consciousness.

Bringing us the inspiration to do something different, or make positive changes in our life if we need to.

We live within a universal conscious space that seems intelligently responsive to us when we tune in to it.

A cosmic field-intelligence that’s more available, more known to us, when we pay attention to it inside ourselves.

A universal intelligence that seems to care about our personal welfare in the world and helps us with a stream of pragmatic and intelligent guidance if we tune in to it.

We’ve become so used to focusing our attention on the world around us, we’ve maybe forgotten we can also focus our attention inwardly.

We can pay attention inside ourselves to the inner conscious space and become more able to clearly hear our intuition.

Intuition that brings us the wisdom and guidance that’s always available from universal consciousness.

Sceptical?

But have you tried it?

Paul Mulliner 2022

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“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.” Lao Tzu (604-531 BC) Chinese Philosopher

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Intelligence Squared Oct 27, 2022 What are the lessons that history can teach us about the Russian war in Ukraine? Three of Britain’s most distinguished and bestselling historians – Peter Frankopan, Max Hastings and Margaret MacMillan – share their insights into the conflict and its repercussions for the future. In conversation with BBC news presenter Jonny Dymond, they examine the long road to war as well as the potential outcomes of the conflict. They explore how President Putin has been invoking the past to rally support among the Russian people for his actions, and the strengths and shortcomings of Western nations in support of Ukraine. And as the Russian leader threatens to use nuclear weapons to achieve his aims, they ask what lessons can be learned from brinkmanship during the Cold War. ✅ Click on this link to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/iqsquare… Intelligence Squared has established itself as the leading forum for live, agenda-setting debates, talks and discussions around the world. Our aim is to promote a global conversation that enables people to make informed decisions about the issues that matter, in the company of the world’s greatest minds and orators.