Vision | Futuring | Imagination đź”®
This is water. By David Foster Wallace.
"We don’t have resource problems, we have imagination problems."
Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Mardy Grothe • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
Fishbowl thinking
Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous.
The Seventh Generation Principle is an Indigenuous concept. It means that the current generation should live and work for the benefit as well for the seventh generation to come in the future. It is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future. https://theseventhgeneration.org/blog-the-seventh-generation-principle/
The first recorded concepts of the Seventh Generation Principle date back to the writing of The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy, although the actual date is undetermined, the range of conjectures place its writing anywhere from 1142 to 1500 AD. The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy formed the political, ceremonial, and social fabric of the Five Nation Confederacy (later Six). (https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle)
Another interpretation that stresses stewardship owed to generations past and future sometimes arises in popular culture and discourse. Rather than pointing to seven generations counted from one's own and looking toward the future, there is an awareness of a legacy to honor or a debt to bear in mind to those three generations before one's own, as well as an awareness of one's own legacy bequeathed to the three generations to follow one's own. By reckoning 25 years per generation, the span of lifetimes stretches 75 years before one's birth and 75 years beyond one's death.
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry