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Thursday Apr 17 2008

I went to an interesting exhibition called “Babylon” at the Louvre* over the weekend. A lot of the explanations were in French, so I am sure I missed a lot of the factual history. What was clear was the mythology surrounding the Tower of Babel that God supposedly destroyed when the civilization became too decadent. As I recall, this account heralds the beginning of disparate languages and the considerable miscommunication that has been going on between human beings every since. We’ve been working a lot recently on the formation of the Eldering Institute, which is, among other things, focused on promoting “multigenerational collaboration” (which of course implies intergenerational communication).[Read More]

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