The Joyous Struggle | Jonathan Rowson | Substack

our concepts and language cannot keep pace with our technology, by which I do not just mean gadgets and gizmos with helpfully flashing lights, but the economically and culturally hegemonic forces shaping the world in the context of the current mutation of the complex adaptive system that is capitalism through what Shoshanna Zuboff calls Surveillanc... See more

technology can be seen as synonymous with capitalism, in the sense that technological innovation drives the investment-debt-growth cycle that defines the economy while simultaneously shaping language, culture, and social expectations in a way that obscures what it is doing to us - namely turning us into compliant consumers and removing our capacity... See more

Sensemaking is about becoming adept at navigating the world’s complexity with growing mental complexity.

It’s possible to understand that glaciers are melting more than they have historically, that fires are more likely when foliage is dry, or that a political party has a vested interest in promoting further investment in fossil fuels, but it’s not possible to understand or experience ‘climate change’ as such. The idea as a whole is a hyperobject, bey... See more