narrative change
by Keely Adler · updated 4mo ago
narrative change
by Keely Adler · updated 4mo ago
Stories are thought experiments that cut through contemporary interests and structures to imagine an alternative world. Stories help us understand the current system but also provide the tools to investigate how that world is changing and reveal solutions to work to a different futures.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
to fully abandon an exploitative and destructive status quo, we need to dig even deeper.
Worldview-Reform
We need to not only shift our attention toward the systems level but also toward the worldviews or mental models that lie behind it.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
TL:DR — It is impossible for organisations to “demonstrate their impact” if they work in complex environments. Asking them to do so requires them to create a fantasy version of the story of their work. This corruption of data makes doing genuine change work harder because it is difficult to learn and adapt from corrupted data.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
The narrative that art or creativity isn’t real work (as described below) is just one element of a much bigger discussion about what is considered and adequately valued as “real work” in today's society and economic system and what isn’t. As I wrote in Aliveness: Reframing Productivity: “We don’t really think of productivity as a measure of being
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when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.
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A value system is fostered through storytelling and negotiation in forums of public discourse.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Leaning into the weird doesn’t just mean healing. In fact, weird can actually be used as a form of play to imagine new narratives for self-expression and creativity.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
owing to the fact that behind the many interconnected problems of the metacrisis there is a deep ideological problem (i.e., a lack of unified narrative), metamodernism can be defined as a new collective value system1 that incorporates, contextualizes and transcends all previous value systems while resolving the conflict between them in an integrate
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