Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Capitalism is not simply a system of market exchange - it is a system that measures and reduces the value of Life including human labour, living ecosystems, relationships and life-force.
Stephen Reid • Post Capitalism and the Five Elements Mandala
Grief and enchantment with the world are not mutually exclusive. Rage and enchantment are not mutually exclusive. Our sense of possibility and magic can swell as our hearts shatter
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
Collaboration doesn’t preclude commercialization. And participation — whether driven by a project’s fans or members — is an essential element to any long-term worldbuilding project.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
In her excellent book Forced to Care, Evelyn Nakano Glenn refers to this ongoing scenario as a care crisis. It’s not just that there isn’t enough care — it’s that those who end up providing it are coerced, in some form, to do so.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
you must be able to live inside of your vision in such a way that you can communicate its emotional essence, its core truth, to the immediate world around you.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there's proven value in specialization – it's what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is a secret talent.
People who appreciate diversity, who are in the know about the wider world and who understand how things interact are... See more
People who appreciate diversity, who are in the know about the wider world and who understand how things interact are... See more
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
They take that justice principle seriously, he says. “This generation has hope about a future that is in balance, and they’re no longer waiting for science or policy or the economy or new technology to tell them what they should do. They want to act.”