by Charles Watts | Dec 19, 2020 | Effective Government, Mutual Responsibility
John Hart was a signer of the US Declaration of Independence and ancestor to two of our members. Our Revolution declared empathy in 1776. Notably, according to historian Lynn Hunt in her book entitled Inventing Human Rights. Furthermore, early American framers...
by Charles Watts | Dec 4, 2020 | Effective Government, Mutual Responsibility
2-minute trailer of Tomorrowland. Do you feed your nurturant wolf? This week on my morning treadmill, I fed my nurturant wolf by watching Walt Disney’s 2015 movie Tomorrowland. In it, Britt Robertson plays Casey, who seeks to save humanity’s future by constantly...
by Charles Watts | Nov 8, 2020 | Mutual Responsibility, Progressive Markets
Empathy, the soul of democracy, barely won the 2020 presidential elections. And caring citizens breathe easier. Meanwhile, in my county/state, Clinton/Ohio, empathy LOST. Empathy lost by 60% in my county and 8 % in my state. America has elected her 1st black woman in...
by Charles Watts | Sep 26, 2020 | Mutual Responsibility, Progressive Markets
Comments on the Appointment of 3M VP Gayle Schueller to UN Global Compact USA Network Board The Empathy Surplus Project has been a participant of the UN Global Compact since March 2014. The UN Global Compact is organized around networks, defined as the country in...
by Charles Watts | May 25, 2020 | Mutual Responsibility
Memorial Day is a celebration of nurturant parent morality for which many progressives died. This photo is from a New York Times op-ed piece by historian David Blight, May 29, 2011. It depicts the first Decoration Day parade in 1865 of 10,000 freed slaves around the...
by Charles Watts | Oct 12, 2019 | Mutual Responsibility
Reframing IS social change. Building an empathy surplus in YOUR world begins with you changing your language. The Four Empathic Activities of a Caring Citizen Leader all start with the letter “I.” I INWARDLY digest and use the work of George Lakoff to frame caring...
