lili
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lili
Don’t work in community. Seriously. I never meant to become a community manager. Most of us didn’t. We fell into it sideways, like walking through the wrong door at a party and suddenly finding ourselves responsible for babysitting someone’s forgotten & drunk cousin.The job is a messy tapestry of contradictions. You'll build fences designed to be... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Tappy: Self Care Fidgeter
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Wished for an app I could fidget with. Found it.
Discipline is pleasure
a forever mood
We need deliberative spaces that allow people to truly listen to one another and to be heard, to recognise and acknowledge each other, even in difference, to grapple with complexity and spark curiosity – in ideas as well as in why others believe what they do; to have empathy and also to be able to do the hard work of finding common ground on the... See more
Darrell Bouldin • Assembly required - RSA Comment
Could citizen assemblies be a new model for the future of political decision-making, to overcome some of the challenges of our democratic crisis?
I continued to read the article and want to add the below, to build on the above question.
The more fundamental issue is that a system defined by elections, with political parties and politicians, is designed for short-termism, for debate, for conflict and for polarisation. It puts re-election goals and party logic ahead of the common good. Adding on new forms of democratic institutions like citizens’ assemblies to an electoral system does not address the underlying democratic problems of an elections-based system.
Banksy’s art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable
