My favored explanation, though, derives from a different aspect of meditation: its ability to foster a view that all beings are interconnected.
Perhaps the most striking chapter in the book describes how technology companies in America campaigned to foster a view that state schools were failing – in particular by funding a series of films about crummy schools and heroic individual teachers battling the system – before profiting from selling IT "solutions" to the new schools springing up to replace failed ones.
Such comments helped to foster a view that Tippett was a "difficult" composer, or even that his music was amateurish and poorly prepared.
A Museum of the British Empire would be a harrowing place to visit, but perhaps if it existed it might have fostered a view of our nation more grounded in the reality our own grim, dependent past.
Somebody could build a recommendation engine intended to foster a sympathetic view of others' lives and values.
The thinking has required looking beyond local strengths to foster a broader view of the league by fans, whose allegiances are mostly tribal, and sponsors, whose cash adds to the league's relatively modest national TV revenue.
Such canned activities can foster an unrealistic view of science as prescriptive, unambiguous, and irrelevant and therefore do not reflect "authentic" science (Bencze and Hodson, 1999; Rahm et al., 2003; NRC, 2005).
Recent policies have, moreover, fostered a negative view of foreigners, such as the debate over proposals to prevent them from buying land.
Only recently, after six decades' work, did he lift the curtain on a life whose mid-west beginnings fostered a baroque view of America that bracketed him with southern gothic - where domineering women and immolations are among life's obstacles.
We were privileged in that it allowed us to interact with folk from all walks of life from a very early age, fostering a world view that's very much rooted in helping others.
This article reviews the history of research on HT and CHD prevention preceding WHI and the initial response to WHI in terms of underlying decision-making-rules and values about how to design and interpret research, especially rules and values fostering a positive view of HT's benefits for disease prevention even in the face of neutral, ambiguous, and negative evidence.
