on better futures
I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative
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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.
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
challenges to long-held assumptions take place when individuals dive deeper and deeper into anticipatory imagination and provocation, and this opens the door to transformative realities that profoundly change the perspective of the foresight practitioner. Consequently, the possibility of these new worlds become an internal experience that can no
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Bringing about the world we want to live in, the world we want to leave to our children is, substantially, the work of the imagination, or what educational reformer John Dewey describes as ‘the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’.18
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Elsewhere, while COVID-19 may have abated from peak hellish weirdness, the narratives that collapsed then have not been put back together again
ZORA ZINE • The Laws of Lorecore
‘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
Let’s go over the top, embrace the reality of modernity, and do something useful with it.
Packy McCormick • How to Fix a Country in 12 Days
A world that’s upside down cannot and should not be treated and measured as if it holds the key to creating a world that’s right side up. A new vision and world requires a new way of thinking, measuring, acting, and being
TFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
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