on better futures
@CassieRobinson@mastodon.social • Tweet
claiming it's over is just an excuse to avoid building what's next.
Anderson • "Zihilism", and Why Young Men Are Choosing the Roulette Wheel
Magical Realism is, more than anything else, an attitude toward reality…. In Magical Realism the writer confronts reality and tries to untangle it, to discover what is mysterious in things, in life, in human acts. The principle thing is not the creation of imaginary beings or worlds but the discovery of the mysterious relationship between man and
... See morepoetrynw.org • Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
• post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)
• post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)
• post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),
• post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)
• post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagining possibilities of what the future could be. And if there was ever a time we needed such imagination, it is today.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
We've seen time and time again that we can build a better world. I mean, this is true in every single aspect of life
Embedded • How Taylor Lorenz Went From Tumblr Queen to Internet Historian
maia arson crimew • anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future
‘It is one thing to say ‘Another World Is Possible.’ It’s another thing to experience it, however momentarily.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
There isn’t only one kind of person that can imagine what a better world could look like, whether it’s fictional or not