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Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
These Old Stories continue to infect our collective imagination, distorting how we see and value different groups, cultures, and worldviews. They even warp our conception of “human nature”—selfish, not altruistic; competitive, not cooperative; hardwired, not adaptable. They presuppose a fixed genetic or cultural predisposition that ignores the plas
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
His precise wording, This is you, works like a portal, beaming Serena into a future where she is a world champion.
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“Imagination doesn’t erase nightmares,” says author Imani Perry, “but it can repurpose them with an elaborate sense-making or troublemaking.” And, if imagination can lead to troublemaking, is it any wonder, then, that those in power work tirelessly to squash us from having radical imaginations that dare to envision a world in which everyone can thr
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Who thrives in an undifferentiated environment?
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Standardized testing has always been predicated on a racist, classist, sexist, and ableist standard.
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
One way to tell if your vision of the future is new or just new-ish is whether it seriously aims to alleviate the injustice and suffering of the present.
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
“Aporophobia” is what philosopher Adela Cortina calls the fear, hatred, and rejection directed at poor people. The question is, should we try to change the rules to allow for more winners? Or is it possible to subvert the game, maybe even stop playing, and imagine a social and economic system that doesn’t immiserate the masses to enrich the few?
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
The stakes are too high and the stubborn hopefulness of those struggling to re-create this gloomy world too contagious to resign myself to dour pessimism.
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