The Necessities & Impossibilities of Comprehensivism @Comprehensivist Wednesdays

If comprehensivism is the process of making sense of it all and of each other, is it even possible? Even if it is impossible, is it necessary that we pursue as many comprehensive comprehensions as we can muster? How can we reconcile the necessities and impossibilities of comprehensivism?

These questions are explored in the essay "The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism" https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2020/08/the-necessities-and-impossibilities-of-comprehensivism/ .

The presentation and Q&A sections of all "52 Living Ideas" Meetups are recorded and posted on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer.

Event format:

1. The Necessities of Comprehensivism

This will include a 5-10 minute presentation by CJ Fearnley followed by Q&A. Then participants will join breakout rooms with a group of 6-8 people so that each person can discuss:

• Do you agree that forming a proper way of knowing, a proper way of acting, and managing on an on-going and regenerative basis the entire world system are each compelling necessities for our practice of comprehensivity?

2. The Impossibilities and Practice of Comprehensivism

This will include a 5-10 minute presentation by CJ Fearnley followed by Q&A. Then participants will join breakout rooms with a group of 6-8 people so that each person can discuss:

• Do you agree that analysis and value paralysis as well as the paralysis of wholism are impossibilities challenging our practice of comprehensivity?
• How might you reconcile these necessities and impossibilities of comprehensivism in your own practice of the art of comprehensivity?

3. Then we will come back together in the large group and every attendee will have the opportunity of giving their reflections and takeaways for 2-3 minutes. Then we will wrap up.

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

The first, introductory, event from "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwTy6pGkNA

The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the subject: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

To see all forthcoming "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" events, look at the Wednesday events on the "52 Living Ideas" calendar: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/

Here is an outline of future events:
Aug 5: Most Effective Habit Change Method & Optimizing Everything with mathematician Spencer Greenberg
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley
‪Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela‬
‪Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Nature of Our Identities with Karen ‬
‪Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay‬
‪Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley
‪Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)‬
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant