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Security means having some assurance of future stability and the ability to plan ahead.

As uncertainty and precarity become the new normal, so governmental regimes have shifted their focus from how to secure us to how to make us resilient. Security, and the longing for it, have become a kind of pathology. We are no longer to expect or seek certainty but rather to embrace and accept challenge and danger, a state of perpetual emergency…

Certainty is not security, it’s a snapping shut and a cover-up—an attempt to escape from the insecurity of not knowing.

To be insecure, then, means being unfixed and unsure, to be in a place of possibility. Depending on the context, this kind of insecurity can be unpleasant or even terrifying, and it is especially awful when it is foisted on us by those looking to take advantage of our disorientation. But under the right conditions—when it is buttressed by a more fu

We’re waking up to the reality that uncertainty is not a war to be fought or a disease to be eradicated but an inherent quality of a complex world. We need to cultivate our collective capacity to sit with uncertainty and complexity.

Human beings have become adept at selling the dream of security and the fear within the masses buys into it. All systems of knowledge based on logic promise security and the more complex the system the more people tend to believe it.

the tension between security and adventure is a paradox to manage, not a problem to solve.