Sublime

We grew up in societies built upon certain assumptions about how the world works, and how the planet around us should be seen. We now know those assumptions were wrong in profound ways,

Alex Steffen writes in his newsletter The Snap Forward:

“Most people believe the alternative to cars is better transit—in truth, it’s better neighborhoods.” 71

good folks are pushing hard across the entire range of human endeavors to find new ways to see, better ways to work. Yet I’ve also heard from these same people, time and again, how hard it is to break out of the professional constraints of convention, common practice and assumed continuity. How hard it is to get those with assets and authority to l

Our professional and technological capabilities have been increasing exponentially, but our ability to use them wisely has not. We are building vast, complex civilizations, but that very complexity is in danger of overwhelming us, creating huge and unintended consequences for the planet and all those that inhabit it.

to quote adrienne maree brown, the author of Emergent Strategy, who contrasts ‘mile wide, inch deep movements with inch wide, mile deep movements that schism the existing paradigm.’