Prisoners of the Real: An Odyssey

An intellectual journey from Pythagoras to planetary consciousness -- and a new vision of freedom & cooperation. 
  
Prisoners of the Real makes the connection between solar and lunar knowledge, illuminating the cost of our preoccupation with certainty and order. 

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Exploring insights from linguistics, psychology, physics, literature, philosophy and management science, Prisoners of the Real opens the door to a new vision of freedom and cooperation – Dionysian leadership.

Video Preview: Dionysus Rising

"Dionysian leaders use artistic methods to invent structures of reality. Although they acknowledge that scientific and artistic processes have equal worth, they de-emphasize logical reasoning and deduction and focus on metaphorical thinking. Their interest is not definition but discovery.”

Section One: The Rational Trap
The Creative Also Destroys * Deconstructing Leadership * Anatomy of Insecurity * Managers and Their Tools * The Corporate Way of Life * The Dictatorship of Time * Rules for Rationals * The Age of Adaptability * Living with Rational Management

Section Two: Philosophy of the Real 

Defining the "Real World" * Questions of Knowledge * The Path of Certainty * Man the Brute * Surrender to Authority * Rise of the Reasonable State * Hegel’s Dialectical Progress * The Ultimate Reality of Karl Marx *  Deadly Facts: Objectivity & a Culture of Conformity

Section Three: New World Disorders

The Outsider’s Choice * Life, Death and Lost Generations * Deconstructing Archetypes * 

The Bureaucratic Way * Rational Collectives * The Next Level: World Order * The Logic of Lifeboat Ethics * Evolutionary Cycles * Reframing Reality * The Language of Uncertainty * Language Grooves & Quantum Potentials

Section Four: 
Restructuring Reality – The Dionysian Way

Rediscovering Dionysus * Dionysus & Apollo * The Path of Invention * Humanity at the Turning Point * Narcissism & Grand Delusions * Community & Consciousness * The Eclipse of Free Expression * Autonomy & Self-Rule * Freedom of Amplified Speech * Dionysian Process: An Overview * Dionysian Process: Planning & Decisions * The Process: Info & Communication * The Process: Time, Participation, Enabling * The Game of Becoming