Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel

Here is the problem: The future visions that are put out there into the world are either commonplace, boring, meaningless, (corporate) agenda-driven, uninspiring, or all of the above together.

The reason for that, in my opinion, is that our minds are stuck in old ideologies, old systems, and old narratives, which prevents us from thinking outside th

as Akomolafe (2022) puts it: the way we respond to a problem might become part of the problem. To escape this pattern, we need new ways of doing, being, thinking. Stretching our imagination beyond the boundaries of what is possible might turn out to be crucial to get unstuck from dominant narratives