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New Deep Narratives: We Need New Stories of What It Means to Be Human
while shared stories and singular sources of truth are comforting, they also run the risk of over-simplification and easy-to-ignore exclusion. On the face of it, it feels like the most dystopian of our existential themes — more fear than question. But what if there’s a potential upside to decentralized reality? What if the fragmentation of reality ... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added
We need to see ourselves as part of a symbiotic, greater whole and start planning for a “long now” that looks deep into the future. This means changing the storytelling formula […] so that the main character is no longer the human but instead our planet.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
Keely Adler added
It may be true that we need a new story, as many social change organisations now suggest, but we can’t buy one off the shelf that speaks to our civilisational predicament, nor brainstorm our way to one that works.
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
Stuart Evans added
We’re in dire need of a new cultural story to live by. Not to negate the old, as Sophie Strand writes, but to “compost” the stories that no longer serve us so they can become fertile ground from which a new story may emerge. A story that doesn’t tell us we’re separate from but deeply interconnected with all living beings. One that recognizes that h... See more
Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
Stuart Evans added
It could be said that the success of our human future requires the pursuit of narrative, reflection and empathy. To be sure, we can move in that direction through education, civic discourse and therapy. But if the design of our digital technologies helped us get to where we are, then design can also help get us somewhere better. Indeed, there are a
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We need to deepen our storytelling of one specific kind of story, however – namely, the kind of story that can allow us to imagine a future replete with possibility.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
We need to become better storytellers in such a way that we can, through a variety of media, give people a visceral sense of what a positive future would sound, taste, feel and look like. We need to create stories where the kind of future we want to see becomes commonplace, everyday. We need to tell stories with an underlying sense that the mere te
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
And so, instead of just changing our narratives, we should learn to understand the perspectives that shape them. When we focus on our own stories, we live life as we already know it, but by loosening the grip that stories hold over our lives – by focusing on the perspectives of ourselves and others – we can begin opening ourselves up to other possi... See more