Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
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Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
The longer I do this work, the more I understand that we need to build a stronger account of the moment we are in: a story of decline and new opportunities; of deep crisis and mind-bending possibilities. Most importantly, a time to act from hope rather than sink into fatalism. We need to confront and reckon with the existing order; to reveal it for... See more
Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
As experience has shown, the world – life itself – is cloudy, contingent and defined by change. As horrifying as the surveillance capitalists’ view of a totally controlled, perfectly articulated and error-free future might be, the inevitable failure of its vision, and the resultant violence – already evident in our fractured worldviews, competing f
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
So if we find ourselves the inheritors of a political, economic and cultural narrative that is leading us well and truly in the wrong direction, then it appears we have little choice but to come together and collectively rewrite a more resonant human story. But how do we do this? What are the narratives that need replacing? And which new ones might
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
As individuals we are in transition between two stories that each define what it means to be a human. Our civilization is going through the same crisis. A convergence of crises is birthing us into a new world.
Charles Eisenstein • Presentation to Uplift Festival, 12.14.2014
Yet there is hope. Because something is happening. There is a coalescence. A different story is rising and ripening. It is a story of who we are as humans, what we are capable of, and how we might work together to reimagine and rebuild our world.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
As philosopher Jonathan Rowson often says, first souls, then systems, then society (we presently have that very often backwards). "We believe the world’s major challenges stem from a crisis of perception and imagination, and the failure of political culture to honour the fullness of reality. We are fascinated by the myriad ways in which our tacitly... See more