The Guru Papers
People have a native capacity for healing, consoling, moving, learning, building their houses, and burying their dead. Each of these capacities meets a need. The means for the satisfaction of these needs are abundant so long as they depend primarily on what people can do for themselves, with only marginal dependence on commodities. These activities
... See moreIvan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
SUBJECT CONSUMER CITIZEN DEPENDENT TO RELIGIOUS DUTY OBEY RECEIVE COMMAND PRINT HIERARCHY SUBJECTIVE INDEPENDENT FOR MATERIAL RIGHTS DEMAND CHOOSE SERVE ANALOGUE BUREAUCRACY OBJECTIVE INTERDEPENDENT WITH SPIRITUAL PURPOSE PARTICIPATE CREATE FACILITATE DIGITAL NETWORK DELIBERATIVE
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
It has been normative for most adults—even many who are well educated and trained—to function in this third order of consciousness that I have described elsewhere as “Authority-bound and dependent,” and others have described as “received knowledge.” 5 In this mode of knowing, people think and work primarily within an interpersonal, tribal frame, an
... See moreSharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
Authority of any kind is blinding, it breeds thoughtlessness; and as most of us find that to be thoughtful is to have pain, we give ourselves over to authority.