Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
But I start with it because we live in a time bereft of such stories – stories of what life could look like if we were able to find a way over the course of the next twenty years to be bold, brilliant and decisive, to act in proportion to the challenges we are facing and to aim for a future we actually feel good about.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
In our society, the spaces for adults to play are mostly constrained, for example, to sports, or going to the pub. And opportunities to live a life of imagination are reserved for exceptionally privileged people, like designers, actors, artists and film directors. This lack of imagination in our lives is an existential risk for society and humanity... See more
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
This has led some to feel that the moment of opportunity for a new story has passed, that the portal has closed. I don’t agree with that. The Consumer Story is fundamentally broken. The trigger might be this pandemic or another, the onset of the climate emergency or the next banking collapse, surges in energy from Black Lives Matter or Extinction R
... See moreBrian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
rebuilding of the collective imagination