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Civic intelligence seems to be a critical, under-appreciated resource. (Maybe it's the missing ingredient?)
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Civic intelligence is not a well-understood tool in today's America. As it was explained in the earlier section; civic intelligence and working together runs counter to the typical pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American ideology. But in today's world, where there is such a huge array of vastly different fields, no single person can know or understand everything, in other words: the Renaissance Man is dead. This calls for a need to bring our collective intelligences together to solve our problems.
  
How can it be useful? Under what circumstances? (But I'm not sure we answer these questions here. We probably want to say that helping to establish its usefulness (or lack) is important.
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How can civic intelligence be useful?  
  
How can we find out about it? What do we need to do?
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Under what circumstances is civic intelligence useful?
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What do we need to do?
  
 
How do we make it the basis for meaningful action?
 
How do we make it the basis for meaningful action?

Revision as of 15:00, 7 June 2011

Civic intelligence is not a well-understood tool in today's America. As it was explained in the earlier section; civic intelligence and working together runs counter to the typical pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American ideology. But in today's world, where there is such a huge array of vastly different fields, no single person can know or understand everything, in other words: the Renaissance Man is dead. This calls for a need to bring our collective intelligences together to solve our problems.

How can civic intelligence be useful?

Under what circumstances is civic intelligence useful?

What do we need to do?

How do we make it the basis for meaningful action?