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Coherence, critical mass, and the strange science of how small groups can change much larger systems. We have been taught to think about change as a numbers game. Changing a culture, shifting an institution, influencing a community, or altering the direction of society supposedly requires more people. More followers, more votes, more money, more agreement, and eventually some version of the magical majority. Apparently slightly more than half gives an idea permission to matte

I have spent enough years around media, storytelling, messaging and human behavior to understand that the story being told is rarely the whole story. I have also watched long enough to recognize when information is being presented primarily to inform us and when it is being presented to produce an emotional response. There is a difference, and once you begin to recognize the machinery behind that difference, it becomes very difficult not to see it. Propaganda has always been

I was practically born on the back of a horse and have had horses in my life for as long as I can remember. Today I look out at a pasture full of them, including several BLM mustangs, and over the years I have rescued perfectly sound, beautiful young horses from kill pens. Horses that had absolutely nothing wrong with them except that somewhere along the way they became unwanted, inconvenient or worth more moving through the slaughter pipeline than standing in someone’s pastu