Ensuring a more human[e] future
In a post-AI world
Mission: To maintain the health of the people in the face of social, financial, and technological change.
Vision: To guide diverse communities out of a materialistic night unto a more humane dawn, building sustainable homes, resilient markets, and fulfilling lives through a holistic education in beauty - of the heart, mind, body, soul.
Hints of Aurelia
From Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Lecture in 1972:
“Dostoevsky once let drop an enigmatic remark: ‘Beauty will save the world.’ What is this? For a long time it seemed to me simply a phrase. How could this be possible? When in the bloodthirsty process of history did beauty ever save anyone, and from what?
“But a true work of art carries its verification within itself…if the all too obvious and the overly straight sprouts of Truth and Goodness have been crushed, cut down, or not permitted to grow, then perhaps the whimsical, unpredictable, and ever surprising shoots of Beauty will force their way through and soar up…fulfilling the task of all three.
“Could not then art and literature in a very real way offer succor to the modern world?”