Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel
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Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel
rebuilding of the collective imagination
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Imagination, in other words, is the ground on which we fight against determinism, fatalism, the dead hand of hindsight and the unavoidable tendency of our brains, always hungry to find meanings and patterns, to conclude that whatever did happen was the only thing that could have happened.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
It would evaluate policy proposals from elsewhere in the government through a lens of whether they make the country more imaginative, or less. (So any policies likely to increase anxiety, stress and loneliness would not be permitted, for example.) It would train other departments to become more imaginative, more flexible, more playful. Its brief wo
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
a stunted social imagination undermines our ability to adapt.