Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
Bentoism
bentoism.org
Contribute your skills to an existing effort – make it possible. Build the website, raise the funds, recruit the talent, plan the events. As Bill McKibben puts it, “Faced with the kind of crises that we face, the most important thing that an individual can do is to not always be an individual.” Move from I to we .
Dense Discovery • 315 / Designing Out Recklessness
“Individuality can only be valuable when it is not individuality for its own sake but individuality for the human community.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Focused on new structures of kinship and uniting people around shared values of empathy and care, community platforms are increasingly integrating wellbeing, sustainability and social justice into their core. 🧵
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
#104: On Red Scare, finding writing inspiration, and America’s hero fetish
Haley Nahmanhaleynahman.substack.com
micro-individuality
open.substack.com
via Rayne Fisher Quan
suffering is conceptualized in ways that protect the current economy from criticism—namely, as rooted in individual rather than social causes, which means we must favor self over social reform