Ethos

• Life  -  Success, whether as an individual or a civilization, is manifest in the diversity and vitality of life that we protect, nurture, and help to thrive.
• Flow - Functional living systems flow and cycle freely, whereas systems that allow the accumulation and concentration of resources and power within nodes or subsets of the system are not functional in the long run.
• Responsibility - Humans are global apex-consumers and therefore responsible for maintaining the functionality of the living systems of which we are the apex. 
• Ethical Knowledge - Fulfilling our responsibility depends upon knowledge, however the means and methods for acquiring knowledge are as responsible to life as any other activity. 
• Interaction - Knowledge lives in active engagement and not in the numbers and words which represent this living interaction.

There you have it, my manifesto for the day, week, month, or whatever.   A work in progress, for sure, but a useful exercise.  It isn't logical in a philosophical sense, more poetical than anything, although not poetry either.   But I do believe that I stand behind or within or somewhere in the vicinity of this bit of philosophico-poetic-ness.