The baby steps we need to evolve toward a future that is sustainable

There is a key work which does not, if I remember correctly, note Peirce. It is Robert Nisbet's Quest for Community which builds on Tonnies and others to advance the notion that sans community as face to face and self-giving we are more or less toast. This book was laid on me my Fred Schumann at Williams in the 50s. I mention this only to underline that the binary back and forth politics of the present is now beginning to morph into an understanding of a third which is neither conservative nor liberal, right nor left - and it is the power of community that is presently rightly vague, which embraces the excitation (widespread discontent), the blunt truth (a sclerotic and somewhat greed-inclined socio-political system) and relates these two things to the daily experimental efforts that are being made - the baby steps we need to evolve toward a future that is sustainable.

Peirce like Nietzsche is a posthumous author and I do not believe he will come to full flower save possibly in this century. When he does it will most certainly be because he influenced the thinking behind the global democratic revolution. 

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