Macrodoses #5: The Election
Adversarial systems are alchemical; they’re about fusing two opposite halves into a union (ie: democrats vs. republicans). But we’ve lost sight of synthesis and cooperation, and instead we’re growing cancerous mega-poles that seduce and rob identity. Individuals are melting into mega-poles instead of surfing the gradient of complexity.
Four-and-a-half years ago, as the COVID epidemic hit its first, horrible spike, Jamais Cascio , a professional futurist, wrote a prescient and helpful post titled, “Facing the Age of Chaos.” He began with this simple insight: “This current moment of political mayhem, climate disasters, and global pandemic — and so much more — vividly demonstrates t... See more
Micah L. Sifry • When History Overflows, Build a Lifeboat
In medicine, everyone cooperates in research, in diagnosis and in treatment. But in politics today, those whose job it is to manage our society spend their time shouting at each other, doing battle with each other, and falsifying reality while the patient on the examining table lies ignored, undiagnosed, suffering and crying out in pain and terror.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
What’s striking … is the apparent shift from a politics of reason to a politics of experience… In the eyes of many, personal experience has become the new way of being at home in the world. It’s like the bubble that holds the foam at a distance. Experience nowadays trumps reason… We’re led to believe that sensibility, emotions, affect, sentiments a... See more