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This leads directly to the second often underestimated democratic institution is civic education.
Albert Wenger • We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
A Community or a Club?
eliseloehnen.substack.com
But Haidt also spends a fair amount of the book exploring a comprehensive moral matrix (fascinating) along with the need for the divine—or specifically, a need to belong to something bigger than ourselves, balanced by a hunger for awe. He spends a fair number of pages exploring (and gently denouncing) the New Atheist movement for (willfully) misunderstanding the role of religion in peoples’ lives—he points out that people are motivated to show up for each other not because of shared beliefs but because of belonging. Absent something to belong to, we are adrift.
i call this ‘the pendulum of history in action’ and can’t wait for the ‘certified 100% human made and thought’ rationale.
Nowhere But Here: Femi Adeyemi on the Possibilities for Placemaking over the Airwave — Deem
deemjournal.com
If you are trying to invent the new (or fund it), it helps to let go of existing boxes, instead of trying to jam innovative ideas into them. One of the reasons really disruptive startups often have a hard time raising money is because they often don’t fit an existing category.
Albert Wenger • Progress vs. Categories
weekly Objet library and Consumerism
Put more bluntly, sales allow brands to sell clothes they shouldn’t have made to people who don’t actually want them
Dense Discovery – Issue 264
densediscovery.com
weekly Go Flip Yourself and Consumerism
from the ‘consumer story’ to the ‘citizen story’
