# A Reasonable Society **URL:** https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/a-reasonable-society/752 **Category:** General **Created:** [June 10, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/a-reasonable-society/752 "2026-06-10T16:33:24Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/user_avatar/forum.secondrenaissance.net/robertbunge/32/111_2.png) [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge) #### Post date: [June 11, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/a-reasonable-society/752/10 "2026-06-11T09:58:35Z")
> [@Jesse](#): > > I appreciate this. My attempt at supporting your idea: intelligence thrives on a foundation of self-understanding. Certainly, collective intelligence is so much more than that, but self-understanding feels like a part of the picture. A few minutes ago - right here in this very Forum! - I proposed a book project. Your quote above sound like a chapter proposal to me. Interested in developing an essay to unpack your sentence above? > [@My (Our!) Next Book Project](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/my-our-next-book-project/755): > > Yesterday I taught my final college course. Coincidentally, I also submitted final revisions for a forthcoming textbook. Today I’ll ride the train to Seattle for a retirement event. My office at school was cleaned out last week. The decks are being cleared for whatever comes next … Thanks to a few recent exchanges in this Forum, the light is now shining quite brightly on what that next project needs to be! WE need to author a book on collective intelligence. Why WE? Consider the topic! COLLECTI… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/a-reasonable-society/752)._