For reference

This is a collection of thoughts to do with the hunch that a new civilisation needs a new philosophy; a new theory of knowledge; a new integrative learning institution; and a new concept of public thinking: not simply non-linear or lateral, but vertical thinking.

“Vertical thought” is concerned with identifying chains of causality linking a “base cause” to sets of symptoms or visible “problems” on the surface of human social experience.

Ask the question “why?” a few times in response to a sequence of “answers” and something important or interesting is brought into consciousness.