Remixing with a @breehgreenberg idea:
Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
Remixing with a @breehgreenberg idea: Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
And more than anything, it feels particularly, uncomfortably, acutely uncertain.
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Leo Guinan added
The biggest thing we can do is give people a sense of a secure present from which to explore potential abundant futures.
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
... See moreAstra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
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…
Vincent Deary • How We Break
Debbie Foster added
Tighten the vice so people feel snug, not strangled. Find ways, either through context, belief systems or vision to tether all of the chaos down to something that makes sense of the world, that creates tension against the looseness.
Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
Keely Adler added
Often, we avoid complexity and instead collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat ideology that claims to explain everything. But if we resist that urge and instead lean into it, it can bring us into a state of epistemic humility. We realise just how much we don’t know, and how hard these problems are to solve. And in that acceptance, we often fin... See more
Alexander Beiner • The Sensemaking Companion: Section III
Stuart Evans added
But it’s worse than a mere contradiction– because what we are really doing when we attempt to achieve fixity in the midst of change, Watts argues, is trying to separate ourselves from all that change, trying to enforce a distinction between ourselves and the rest of the world. To seek security is to try to remove yourself from change, and thus from
... See moreOliver Burkeman • The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Cant Stand Positive Thinking
fnep added
So, one of the ideas to remember is that the need to feel secure is only a bad habit. You can feel secure even when you don’t know what will happen next. It’s only a custom of ego that requires you to “need to know.” You don’t! When you become more infinite in your perception, you become more open, and knowing what will happen next becomes less imp
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