building communities
every single one requires unlearning first. earnestness becomes possible when you stop performing certainty. learning in public stops being cringe when not-knowing stops being failure. the permission you never knew you needed was always there — you just learned, very thoroughly, to stop looking for it.
unlearning is the root system underneath... See more
unlearning is the root system underneath... See more
Keely • what does it mean to be a good host?
the thread running through all of it: collective amnesia.
capitalism didn’t just push these things aside. it made us forget they were ever structural. joy held communities together. rest held creativity and judgment. non-rational knowing held meaning. enoughness held relationships to land and to each other. these didn’t disappear because they... See more
capitalism didn’t just push these things aside. it made us forget they were ever structural. joy held communities together. rest held creativity and judgment. non-rational knowing held meaning. enoughness held relationships to land and to each other. these didn’t disappear because they... See more
Keely • what does it mean to be a good host?
host.
we got into the etymology — hostis , the latin root. originally meant “stranger.” the word that split into both “guest” and “enemy.” hospitality and hostility sharing an ancestor. the threshold always having been charged.
and then the word just kept opening up. host as verb — to gather, to receive, to hold space. host as biology — the organism... See more
we got into the etymology — hostis , the latin root. originally meant “stranger.” the word that split into both “guest” and “enemy.” hospitality and hostility sharing an ancestor. the threshold always having been charged.
and then the word just kept opening up. host as verb — to gather, to receive, to hold space. host as biology — the organism... See more
Keely • what does it mean to be a good host?
Enclaves that encourage curiosity open people up for personal engagement. Within enclaves, people witness others doing the same. Consider offering people the infrastructure, attention, and encouragement to relate and document their own personal experiences with reality.
We’ve already touched upon a few ways to build enclaves: spark curiosity through... See more
We’ve already touched upon a few ways to build enclaves: spark curiosity through... See more
Matt Klein • Reality Somms: How to Cultivate A Discipline of Knowing What’s Real
this is actually so true that people don’t join run clubs for running. In fact, they could hate running but still want that opportunity to hang out and mingle (and might as well be fit)
4. Conversation allows us to think together.
Philosophy and literature encourage us to question everything and ask, in particular, the big “untimely questions.” If we enter them not with the aim to convert the other but to possibly be converted ourselves, conversations can unlock our best collective thinking and serve as the source code for... See more
Philosophy and literature encourage us to question everything and ask, in particular, the big “untimely questions.” If we enter them not with the aim to convert the other but to possibly be converted ourselves, conversations can unlock our best collective thinking and serve as the source code for... See more
the three steps
Embrace a disputable, specific purpose
Host good controversy
Create a temporary alternate universe through the use of pop-up rules
FYI: a core ingredient of meaning is heat
the future won’t be rebuilt by algorithms or governments. it gets rebuilt the way everything good gets rebuilt — at human scale, with the people actually around you, one front porch at a time.