Transmission #38
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Transmission #38
“I have come to see the profound value of taking in the whole landscape of life and not rejecting or denying what we are given. I have also learned that our waywardness, difficulties, and 'crises' might not be terminal obstacles. They can actually be gateways to wider, richer internal and external landscapes. If we willingly investigate our difficu... See more
Dan Shipper / Superorganizers • You Grow from Your Edges
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • 1 highlight
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To embrace a new story, safe uncertainty is the mindset we need to cultivate not just as individuals, but as organisations, institutions, and indeed whole societies. This demands honesty, acknowledgement of the challenges, and a commitment to facing them together.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
An agent that is truly adaptive and changing is open to sudden eruptions of transformation, in which the agent may temporarily take on the role of strange attractor and facilitate chain reactions of creative events within the system.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Civilizations with long nows look after things better," says Brian Eno. "In those places you feel a very strong but flexible structure which is built to absorb shocks and in fact incorporate them."1 You can imagine how such a process could evolve—all civilizations suffer shocks; only the ones that absorb the shocks survive. That still doesn't expl... See more