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Team Human
Anything like true social justice, mutual aid, or “team human” as I’ve come to call it, happens in that mycelial, connected, doula space where compassion resides and domination has no place: there are no subjects and objects, just relationships.
Douglas Rushkoff • Everything is In-Between
It is possible many of our challenges are at least as much social as they are economic—related to a lack of community and connection to something greater than ourselves.”
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
We can look back and see the times and places of Citizen emergence not as curiosities, but as precursors to this moment, when we are better equipped than ever before to embrace a bigger idea of ourselves. We can see all these, and our own time, not as causes for fear, but as sources of hope.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Recent events have completely exposed the limits of individual agency, creating a powerful demand for squad-based forms of resiliency. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent of these social bonding agents: though we're physically distancing, emotionally we're getting closer.
otherinter.net • Other Internet
We’re in the midst of a significant evolution in what it means to be an individual. This experience and confluence of forces is what I call post-individualism — a term intended to capture the ways computers and the web have changed our sense of self and how society is changing in response.
The Post-Individual
However we may slice it, The Mindset favors the extraordinary achievements of wealthy individuals using technology to set themselves apart from the common folk, control the natural environment, and overcome the cycles of life.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
The more disconnected and predictable we become, of course, the less alive we are by all measures that matter, and the more our corporations take on a life of their own. On the synthetic landscape of corporatism, corporations are the indigenous creatures and we are the aliens. They function better than we can, because our laws—even our roads, neigh
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