societal
how we relate to one another
societal
- Anxiety of incompetence : my skills are devalued and i have to learn new ones
- Anxiety of irrelevance : people might not relate to, value, or think about me
- Anxiety of uncertainty : I don’t know what the future holds and it feels fickle
Anu • Agency in the Age of AI
Insights from Byung-Chul Han:
The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential societal bonds
We need daily and lifelong rituals to help bring narrative structure into our lives
In the past,... See more
We send people away for years, tell them exactly what to do every day and they get to make exacrly one choice every day: do you obey or not? That's the only choice you get to make. Then, after 3, 5, 10 years, we send them out into society and tell them, "Make better choices." But we haven't prepared them for that at all. We have given them almost... See more
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
In some traditions, there are women whose job it is to grieve on behalf of those who are stuck with inability to touch their own grief. {44}
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
“Children are not our projects. They are to share life with.”
-from On Being interview with Sara Hendren