Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.
Real Life • Silent Partner
While similar to Disney’s “transnarrative” strategy, in which characters are interspersed throughout various media, most projects don’t cohere around a central figure or storyline. Instead, the emphasis is placed on the world itself.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
A much more humane, and ultimately more appropriate, approach would be to treat our relationships and communities, as well as the benefits we receive from them, not as a form of wealth, but as gifts. They are received, not chosen; valued but not earned; given but not traded; appreciated but not capitalized. They have an inherent, unquantifiable... See more
The Relationship Is the Richness
Pieces of information do not coalesce into knowledge or truth, which are forms of narration.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
New_ Public - For Better Digital Public Spaces
newpublic.org
Within the individualist conception, there’s no such thing as a systemic issue: no eldercare crisis, no childcare crisis, just hard decisions and sacrifices that every family (read: every woman in that family) has to make on their own. If another family or individual can’t make similar decisions, t hat’s their problem, and no one else’s.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
Nevertheless, we need to keep showing our vulnerable hearts to each other. The stakes are enormous. We need more chances to connect and bond with each other in public. We need reminders that total control and complete divestment from others isn’t possible and it certainly isn’t desirable. We need to learn how to forgive each other and reassure each
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