After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series,
and a quick review for the original subscribers.

Today’s episode, Podcast # 28, is the ninth in the open-ended series of positive approaches
for addressing the many specific contemporary economic, social and political issues that
challenge our capacity for having a future in the 21st Century. The key concept in today’s
podcast is that we know we have some worn out beliefs. That recognition is what accepting
change is all about. There is a need for reconsidering our core economic, social and political
beliefs. Many are discouraged because the issues all need to be solved quickly. Yet, the task
seems too complicated to be solved at all, let alone quickly. But, conceptually, these
challenges are really not that complicated, and we know what the technical solutions are.