citizens of the future
Citizenship is human nature: an intrinsic inclination, always bubbling, often suppressed, never wholly conquered, and now at a moment of huge opportunity.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
A founding motivation for the pair was a belief that the discussion of climate change needed to be participatory, not a one-way lecture. "One of the things that frustrated me so much while working for major environmental groups is this concept that there are anointed people who 'know' and there are people who are 'not knowing'," says Quante. "But
... See moreRichard Fisher • Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene
The most fundamental task is to help each other to reorient our life and work through a sensibility that is prefigurative of the better aspects of our emerging future.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
especially after the advent of electronic media, knowledge, place, and the public sphere begin to diverge. While local realities still loomed large epistemically and politically, there was a drift toward more abstract knowledge and more abstract communities (some might say “imagined communities”).
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
when we tap into the diverse spectrum of human emotion, we have an opportunity to inspire people to view themselves as part of a larger story—and to make moral decisions about who they are in relation to other human beings.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
Radical Curiosity requires that we approach the world critically, rather than passively. It compels us to question the ways in which power operates, often invisibly, rather than accepting the power structures that the world has presented to us.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Visions of truly global DAOs representing billions of people are a fantasy. But if we apply our principle of "positive externalities" to include future citizens of the places we live, protocol-built public goods starts to look more like community-driven industrial policy.