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Team Human
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Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.
from Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
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- Humans are social creatures—cooperative and interdependent almost by biological definition. So if it’s not actually natural to our species to be self-sufficient, why is it considered aspirational?
from #96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone? by Haley Nahman
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- I have hardly ever encountered a thought along the lines of “It is adaptive for humans to band together into collectives because it allows more powerful collective intelligences to emerge.”
from Graph Minds by Venkatesh Rao
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- Group collaboration is now the strong default, putting squads at the center of social, cultural, and economic life. To paraphrase K-HOLE: today people are born as individuals, and have to find their squad.
from Squad Wealth by Other Internet
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Radical friends reject the fantasy of exemplary self-sovereign autonomous individuals optimized for efficiency and productivity. They know that this is a poisonous projection by materially advantaged individuals who seek to leverage their competitive edge within the austerity conditions they co-created.
from Radical Friends - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts - Furtherfield by Ruth Catlow
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