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Progressive Era principles permeate Harv’s lifetime and lifework.flow —His teachers and traditional culture were steeped in progressive principles as historically detailed below.
The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)[1][2] was a period in the United States characterized by various social and political reform efforts.[3][4]Reformers during this era, known as Progressives, sought to address issues they associated with rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption, as well as the concentration of industrial ownership in monopolies. Reformers expressed concern about slums, poverty, and labor conditions. Multiple overlapping movements pursued social, political, and economic reforms by advocating changes in governance, scientific methods, and professionalism; regulating business; protecting the natural environment; and seeking to improve urban living and working conditions.[5] Corrupt and undemocratic political machines and their bosses were a major target of progressive reformers. To revitalize democracy, progressives established direct primary elections, direct election of senators (rather than by state legislatures), initiatives and referendums,[6] and women's suffrage which was promoted to advance democracy and bring the presumed moral influence of women into politics.[7] For many progressives, prohibition of alcoholic beverages[8] was key to eliminating corruption in politics as well as improving social conditions. Another target were monopolies, which progressives worked to regulate through trustbusting and antitrust laws with the goal of promoting fair competition. Progressives also advocated new government agencies focused on regulation of industry.[9] An additional goal of progressives was bringing to bear scientific, medical, and engineering solutions to reform government and education and foster improvements in various fields including medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, and churches. They aimed to professionalize the social sciences, especially history,[10] economics,[11]and political science[12] and improve efficiency with scientific management or Taylorism.[13][14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era
From the above, Harv sees his self-life timeline as progressive (roots), happy worker (1950s), deacon (1970s), mid life crisis (1980s), last job (1989), Europe (1991), PhD (1996), $ retirement (1998), chased family retirement (2010s), car-living (2017), internet connectivity 24/7 (2024), Walt Disney World Resorts retirement (2024).
Harv's self-life saw WWII as a blackout drill with father a war-deferred truck driver
In 2017,
Fukuyama recognizes the crisis. "Globalization really does seem to produce these internal tensions within democracies that these institutions have some trouble reconciling," he said. Combined with grievances over immigration and multiculturalism, it created room for the "demagogic populism" that catapulted Trump into the White House. That has Fukuyama deeply concerned. Fukuyama recognizes the crisis. "Globalization really does seem to produce these internal tensions within democracies that these institutions have some trouble reconciling," he said. Combined with grievances over immigration and multiculturalism, it created room for the "demagogic populism" that catapulted Trump into the White House. That has Fukuyama deeply concerned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/09/the-man-who-declared-the-end-of-history-fears-for-democracys-future/
oligarch President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was sliding into an "oligarchy" of tech billionaires. President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was sliding into an "oligarchy" of tech billionaires. https://apnews.com/article/oligarchy-biden-zuckerburg-bezos-musk-altman-a44e281c6dbf2fd6cd174f13cdcdc1c5
Liberal democracy, also called Western-style democracy,[1] or substantive democracy,[2] is a form of government … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy Liberal democracy traces its origins—and its name—to the Age of Enlightenment. The conventional views supporting monarchies and aristocracies were challenged at first by a relatively small group of Enlightenment intellectuals, who believed that human affairs should be guided by reason and principles of liberty and equality. They argued that all people are created equal, that governments exist to serve the people—not vice versa—and that laws should apply to those who govern as well as to the governed (a concept known as rule of law), formulated in Europe as Rechtsstaat. Some of these ideas began to be expressed in England in the 17th century.[9] By the late 18th century, leading philosophers such as John Locke had published works that spread around the European continent and beyond. These ideas and beliefs influenced the American Revolution and the French Revolution. After a period of expansion in the second half of the 20th century, liberal democracy became a prevalent political system in the world.[10]
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An early mention of techno-progressivism appeared in 1999 as the removal of "all political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization".[47] According to techno-progressivism, scientific and technical aspects of progress are linked to ethical and social developments in society. Therefore, according to the majority of techno-progressive viewpoints, advancements in science and technology will not be considered proper progress until and unless they are accompanied by a fair distribution of the costs, risks, and rewards of these new capabilities. Many techno-progressive critics and supporters believe that while improved democracy, increased justice, decreased violence, and a broader culture of rights are all desirable, they are insufficient on their own to address the problems of modern technological societies unless and until they are accompanied by scientific and technological advancements that uphold and apply these ideals.[48][49][self-published source?] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism
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Intellectual life is a process of moving the self through time. It is inherently human yet voluntary in action. Gibberish?
adjective: intellectual means involving a person's ability to think and to understand ideas and information.
intellectual: adjective: 1a: of or relating to the intellect or its use
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: developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience : RATIONAL
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: requiring use of the intellect
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: given to study, reflection, and speculation
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: engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect
intellectual playwrights https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intellectual Uses of intellect, as differentiates from emotional and/or physical: writing expression, laughter expression, curiosity (probative expression), co-operation, organization, …
intellectual: noun [ C ]
US /ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/ UK /ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/
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a very educated person who is interested in complicated ideas and enjoys studying and careful thinking.
intellectual: adjective
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relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intellectual
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sports of the physical, philosophical of the intellect, religion of the emotional,
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At an early session Tuesday morning, Walter Russell Mead, the right-leaning U.S. foreign policy scholar, gestured to a room of dignitaries and corporate executives and said that Trump’s political victory underscored how all those present are “losing.” Mead said that the spirit animating the Davos veterans in attendance — “the general kind of intellectual, professional, managerial people who thought history was over,” as he put it, invoking the paradigm of a triumphant liberalism popularized by political philosopher Francis Fukuyama — was in retreat. Their homilies to international cooperation, the threat of climate change and the virtues of globalization increasingly find less of an audience elsewhere. “Davos vs Washington,” declared an editorial in French daily Les Echos, pointing to the inescapable dichotomy between the gatherings of rich and powerful at Trump’s inauguration and here in the Swiss mountains. “Davos is, from an intellectual point of view, more and more irrelevant,” Julien Vaulpré, founder of Taddeo, a French strategic communications firm, and a former adviser to then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy … https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=67907c87a714033111f27dd8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&linknum=5&linktot=65
Fukuyama, an acclaimed American political philosopher, entered the global imagination at the end of the Cold War … after the fall of communism, free-market liberal democracy had won out and would become the world's "final form of human government." Globalization was the vehicle by which liberalism would spread across the globe. The rule of law and institutions would supplant power politics and tribal divisions. Supranational bodies like the European Union seemed to embody those ideals. "Twenty five years ago, I didn't have a sense or a theory about how democracies can go backward," said Fukuyama … Brexit and the election of President Trump last year [2016] certainly did. [And now 2024.] Fukuyama himself always left the door open for future uncertainty and crisis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/09/the-man-who-declared-the-end-of-history-fears-for-democracys-future/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F4091f39%2F67907c87a714033111f27dd8%2Fundefined%2F17%2F65%2F67907c87a714033111f27dd8
2025jan27 this high oriority although lofty needs ‘speed before i it can take off. Speed included Tommy ama orders is 11 now THE book — teh model MO of my life.flow? did Sugrue video time make it to calendar ? Socraties betterment and the good soul preceeds the progressive eera as mu MO condition traces into history to answerr why — but book time is not to be spent today.