The Culture of Simulation Series

The Compilation of a Continuing Exploration of the Culture of Simulation and Non-Materiality.

It starts with this post from 2013.

The Spectacle of the Real

Living in a world of serial simulations

Now, we live in Neo’s world of the Matrix.

Where reality is a computerized simulation, and leadership is driven by charisma.

We either accommodate or resist.

We either comply or begin to ask questions.

Instead of the Nazi’s slogan on the gate at Dachau, Arbeit Macht Frei - Work Makes You Free, we now are promised, "You will own nothing and be happy.”

Reality and The Culture of Simulation

1 Understanding the Context of the Spectacle of the Real

2 The Difference in Context between the Simulation and Direct Experience

3 Learning to Observe and Understand Cultures

4 Reclaiming Reality

5 The Spectacle of the Real comes to Uvalde, Texas. What should leaders do?

Leadership and The Culture of Simulation

1 How Leaders become oblivious to their own simulation.

2 Executing a Vision for Impact as a Shared Experience in Leadership.

3 Leadership based on the Culture of Simulation is ultimately unsustainable.

4 Where does this lead us? What are we to do?

5 What are legitimate measures of leadership?

To understand the nature of simulation, we have to understand how we have transitioned away from the material world of science to the non-material world of politics.

If politics is downstream from culture, then culture is downstream from philosophy.

To understand our world, you have to be willing to understand the transitions in philosophic thought over the past century and a half.

Transcendence, Immanence, and Materiality

Understanding how a Culture of Immanent Non-Materiality Came To Be

The Man in The Mirror

Why Art and Wonder are Missing in a World of Non-Materiality

The landscape of simulation versus reality, materiality versus non-materiality is embedded in a range of transitions that I see taking place. This diagram is how I qualify how different groups and ideologies fit into a perspective of our time.

The Two Global Forces: A Working Map of a World

The simple way to understand this map is to see that it represents a shift from defining culture as conservative or liberal to it being globally focused or locally focused. I also know that it doesn’t cover every possible group or ideology. It is a work in progress.