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for - similar to - quote - Ronald Wright - progress trap - computer metaphor

similar to - quote - Ronald Wright - progress trap - computer metaphor - Ronald Wright's famous quote on the computer metaphor really gets to the essence of things - how much of the meta-poly-perma-crisis can be explained by the unprecedented mismatch between the rate of - biological evolution of our species - cultural evolution of our species - Culture is the major and possibly most signficant differentiator between the person alive 50,000 years ago and the one alive today.

reference - quote - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=world

for - paradigm shift - we need a new story quote - a time between stories

quote - a time between stories - Despite this panoply of stories, we are in fact living in a time between stories, because - the dominant narrative remains the same: - progressing within the modern paradigm is the best way to create and maintain a good quality of life, and the only way societies can do this is through - Western-style industrial development, - corporate capitalism, and - representative democracy. - While many people recognise that this narrative needs to be replaced, - we haven’t yet found a new narrative that’s powerful enough to replace it.

for - quote - rise of populism

for - sustainable building - stone age 2.0 - quote - stone age 2.0 - post-modern stone building

quote - stone age 2.0 - post modern stone building - What is required in the first half of the 21st century is a new form of post-modern construction, - relevant to contemporary needs but as - sustainable and as - environmentally benign - as pre-industrial traditional building used to be.

for - quote - sustainable building - concrete paradox

quote - sustainable building - concrete paradox - It does not make sense today to: - quarry limestone, - burn it with aluminium and a few other ingredients at extremely high temperatures to create a powder that is - mixed with - water, - sand and - gravel - to convert it back into a solid material. - And concrete is not good in tension. - It has to be reinforced with steel in order to build with it.

for - quote - economic growth - pioneering economists saw growth not as permanent, but as just a temporary phase

quote - economic growth - pioneering economists saw growth not as permanent, but as just a temporary phase - (see below) - Given that - assumptions of quantitative growth are pervasive in our society and - have been present for many generations, - it is perhaps not surprising that growth is not widely understood to be a transient phenomenon. - Early thinkers on the physical economy, such as - Adam Smith, <br /> - Thomas Malthus, - David Ricardo and - John Stuart Mill - saw the growth phase as just that: a phase

for - quote - carbon cycle - hijacked by political institutions and business

quote - carbon cycle - hijacked by political and business institutions - (see below) - In completely hijacking the global car carbon cycle now - the temperature of the planet - the pH of the oceans and - the oxygen levels in the oceans - are no longer determined by Earth system processes like it has been for all of Earth history - it is fundamentally rooted in human institutions - There really isn't any disentangling the the science from the the political

adjacency - between - carbon cycle - human processes - politics and business - adjacency relationship - The carbon cycle is no longer controlled by earth system processes, - as it has been for billions of years, - but rather by human processes of politics and business

for - quote - exceeding 2 Deg C may result in a billion deaths - Joshua Pearce

quote - exceeding 2 Deg C may result in a billion deaths - Joshua Pearce - (see below) - If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, - mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans - through anthropogenic global warming, - which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.

for - quote - unfortunately, I think we need a near miss to wake us up - Ronald Wright

comment - But the problem is that we can't count on that because it may very well be too late by then - Is the extreme weather events now happening regularly enough to wake us up?

for - quote - metaphor - progress trap - live off the interest, not the principal of nature - Ronald Wright

for - progress trap - example - weapons leading to nuclear weapons

progress trap - example - weapons leading to nuclear weapons - These are the most ironic inventions of civilization - We spend significant percentages of our budgets maintaining and escalating them, meanwhile, we all know we cannot use them as it would mean billions would die

quote progress trap - nuclear weapons - When you're talking nuclear weapons that can never be used you're investing in something that's completely useless - that you're maybe burying in the ground in the form of missile silos or - you're putting into submarines or - into aircraft or missiles - You can never use these things and they are draining off the surplus that might otherwise be used into - wealth redistribution and into - long-term sustainability

for - quote - Humans drive themselves out of Eden - Ronald Wright

quote - humans drive themselves out of Eden - (see below) - Human beings drove themselves out of eden and - they have done it again and again - by fouling their own nests

for - quote - myth of progress - Ronald Wright

quote - myth of progress - Ronald Wright - (see below) - although the idea that this can go on forever is where the myth of progress gets dangerous - because there have been many times and places in the human past, - not even necessarily in our own cultural tradition - among other civilizations where there have been great periods of - expansion and - prosperity - and everybody started to get the idea that life was getting better and better - but usually those those periods of rapid expansion are done and nature pays the bills for that

Comment - history repeats when we forget the lessons of that part. - Historians are so important right now to remind us of past lessons

for - quote - myths - Ronald Wright - adjacency - myths - perspectival knowing - emptiness - progress trap

Quote - Myths - Ronald Wright - (see below) - Myths are not necessarily untrue. They're usually partly true. The danger lies in the part that isn't true.

Comment. - What a great little sentence! - From this perspective, so many things that people claim as "true" are actually myths.

adjacency - between - myths - progress traps - perspectival knowing - emptiness - adjacency relationship - Myths emerge out of perspectival knowing of reality (Vervaeke) - The emptiness of reality is in stark contrast to reductionist thinking which is always relatively incomplete in comparison - This leads to the emergence of progress traps

for - key insight - free trade - from - Backfire: How the Rise of Neoliberalism Facilitated the Rise of The Far-Right

quote - free trade - (see below)

key insight - free trade - NAFTA displays the classic free-trade quandary: - Diffuse benefits with - concentrated costs - While the economy as a whole may have seen a slight boost, - certain sectors and communities experienced profound disruption. - A town in the Southeast loses hundreds of jobs when a textile mill closes, - but hundreds of thousands of people find their clothes marginally cheaper. - Depending on how you quantify it, the overall economic gain is probably greater but barely perceptible at the individual level; - the overall economic loss is small in the grand scheme of things, - but devastating for those it affects directly.

from - Backfire: How the Rise of Neoliberalism Facilitated the Rise of The Far-Right - https://hyp.is/F6XYujyREe-TaldInE8OGA/scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=thecompass

for - quote - Mexico - NAFTA job loss - stats - Mexico - NAFTA job loss

quote - Mexico - NAFTA job loss - - This decline in agricultural production, - coupled with a sheer reduction in wages due to a lack of labor and regulatory standards in the agree- ment, - created over 1.3 million lost jobs in the Mexican agricultural sector alone, - leading to an unprecedented level of immigration into the United States

stats - Mexico - NAFTA job loss - Mexico lost 1.3 million jobs due to mass migration to the US due to NAFTA

Narrator basically summarizes everything up until this point and introduces the diagram

Go here for a full sized image of the entire scientific process

Norris describes the "key part of science"

for - quote - AI prediction for 2027 - Leopold Aschenbrenner

quote - AI prediction for 2027 - Leopold Aschenbrenner - (see quote below) - it is strikingly plausible that by 2027 - models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher SL engineer - that doesn't require believing in sci-fi - it just requires in believing in straight lines on a graph

for - AI music theft - citation - Noam Chomsky - quote - Noam Chomsky - AI as plagiarism on a grand scale

to - P2P Foundation - commons transition plan - Michel Bauwens - netarchical capitalism - predatory capitalism - https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Transition_Plan#Solving_the_value_crisis_through_a_social_knowledge_economy

Quote used as a bouncing pad to not need to construct the argument from scratch

for - quote - Nora Bateson - book - Combining

quote - Nora Bateson - book - Combining - (see below)

• When you're dealing with living systems
  • you have to be careful that you don't get caught in engineering responses

for - progress trap - parenting - traumatizing our children - Nora Bateson - quote - Nora Bateson - progress trap - traumatizing our children

quote - Nora Bateson - progress trap - traumatizing our children (see below) - Let's face it, - If you create a traumatized child - you then have to have the capacity - for dealing with the traumatized child - So it's not just out of benevolence to him but also that - it's a lot easier to be in relationship with someone for the rest of your life that - you haven't damaged

for - quote - Nora Bateson - progress trap

quote - Nora Bateson - progress trap - (see below)

• This is where we get into trouble
  • trying to solve problems in isolated ways

for - quote - progress trap - Nora Bateson - book - Combining

quote - progress trap - Nora Bateson - book - Combining - (see below)

• In the singularity of its mission to hastily fix one malady at a time
  • the cure may be more harmful than the wound
• Most identified problems as they have emerged
  • are really the consequence or symptoms of other conditions
• The solution to the consequence is likely to perpetuate the actual problem

for - key insight - the unconscious - fundamental assumptions are the root problem - Nora Bateson

key insight, quote - the unconscious - fundamental assumptions are the root problem - Nora Bateson - (see below) - Even though we can point with - language and - statistics and - all sorts of measurements - to all the aspects of what we might call - the meta crisis or - the poly crisis - the real issues are: - insidious - they're underground - they're down in our our baseline premises of understanding - what life is and - what it means - To ask - what's in it for me - what's the point of this - where is this going - what am I going to get out of this - These type of questions that have to do with in some way embellishing our individual takeback - are deeply and totally unecological responses - so they're disrupting our possibility for perception

for - quote, key insight - progress trap - Nora Bateson

quote - progress trap - Nora Bateson - Nora hits the head of the nail with this observation - There are always multiple causes to one result - and by addressing only one cause, we cannot solve the problem, but in fact - allow it to continue and often make it worse - This is essentially another way of stating the teachings of millenia of Eastern philosophy, - that the universe is - infinitely interconnected - and its inherent nature of continuous transformation - Therefore, any state, which might be recognized as a problem state - is the result of many different causes and conditions coalescing

for - quote - unconscious patterns locking us into colonial and industrial violence - Nora Bateson

quote - unconscious patterns locking us into colonial and industrial violence - Nora Bateson - (see below) - It's actually I think important in this moment of trying to get out of orientation to these - structures and - habits, - semantics and - epistemological patterns - that that lock us into the kind of thinking - that is the source of - the colonial violence and - the industrial violence - that we're living within

for - quote - progress trap - Nora Bateson

quote - progress trap - Nora Bateson - (see below) - it's really easy to get distracted by the alarms that are ringing - and like you said, there are many that pulls us into reaction mode - that has been long steeped in industrial responsiveness - which is to the first order - that is, if something is happening we want to stop that thing from happening - whatever it is, whether it's - a refugee crisis or - a nuclear war threat or a this or a that - and that first order response does not take into account - the next and the next and the next order of consequences - so it's a kind of thinking that is very much appropriate for - engineering, - for building machines - but it's not appropriate for complex living systems

adjacency - between - Nora Bateson comment on first order industrial responsiveness - progress trap - Stop Reset Go complexity mapping - Deep Humanity - progress trap - emptiness/shunyata - adjacency relationship - What Nora is saying is articulated within the Deep Humanity praxis using the language of progress traps - Dan O'Leary - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=dan+o%27leary - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - which are the unintended consequences of progress - Deep Humanity praxis relates progress traps to the intertwingled Eastern philosophical ideas of - emptiness (shunyata) - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=emptiness - dependent arising and - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=dependent+arising - interdependent origination - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=interdependent+origination - In the context of the Stop Reset Go complexity mapping process, - to be integrated into the Indyweb / Indranet web 3 software ecosystem, - is designed to map multiple perspectives of how to solve a problem - so that we can see the many different solutions and avoid simply adopting a first order response solution - in so doing, it integrates complexity into our problem solving process and helps to mitigate - future progress traps in our solutions - The Indyweb / Indranet is a technology ecosystem designed to reflect the two pillars of emptiness: - (evolutionary) change and - interdependent origination / intertwingularity, - reflecting a universe that is fractally connected in all - dimensions and - scales - Stop Reset Go will be integrated into the Indyweb/Indranet as a specific Markin notation.

for - quote - Einstein

quote - Einstein - Nora opens with the quote often attributed to Einstein but who's likely source is Ram Dass misquoting Einstein

to - page discussing Einstein's misquote and attributing to Ram Dass - https://hyp.is/GffY3iFNEe-4Lft-dGCoPA/hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7751/did-einstein-say-we-cannot-solve-our-problems-with-the-same-thinking-we-used-to

for - quote - chain reaction - why good projects fail - (see below)

• Although many projects and ideas share Elinor Ostrom's personal, cooperative and Earth-helping significance,
  • they lack the chain reaction that keeps them going.
• On the contrary, this flame is extinguished by
  • the direct action (fakes), or
  • indirect action (ignoring or taking our attention elsewhere)
• of the mainstream media that in a certain sense has lost that "code of ethics" of journalism that upheld values; such as
  • truthfulness,
  • independence,
  • objectivity,
  • fairness,
  • accuracy,
  • respect for others,
  • public accountability...

for - quote - comparing capitalism and communism

quote - comparing capitalism and communism - ( see below)

• in a capitalist society like the USA
  • the collective element failed and
• in a communist society like the former USSR
  • the individual element failed.

comment - polar abstractions don't work because reality is somewhere in the middle

for - quote - emptiness - Je Tsongkhapa's realization

quote - (see below) - Je Tsongkhapa was dissatisfied with explanations he had - received - sought out and - read - all the extant texts on emptiness and their commentaries and - analysed what he read to reach the correct view. - In retreat he had a vision of Manjushri, after which - he read Buddhapalita’s commentary and - came to a full realisation of emptiness. - He understood that - because things are dependent on other factors - they are empty of inherent existence; - but they are not non-existent. - Neither - non-existent nor - inherently existent, - they exist as functional phenomena, - but only by way of designation.

for - quote - HH Dalai Lama - attaining enlightenment through wisdom, not just meditation

quote - HH Dalai Lama - attaining enlightenment through wisdom, not just meditation - (see below) - Even today I meet Buddhists in Japan for example - who tell me that Buddhahood can be attained through non-conceptual meditation, - but there seems little room for wisdom. - I feel it’s important to know that - it is the perfection of wisdom rather than - the perfection of meditation - that is stressed as the key to attaining enlightenment

for - quote - web is a huge garbage-bin - adjacency - Indyweb / Indranet provenance - web is a huge garbage bin

quote - web is a huge garbage-bin - (see below) - Since it is well known that the Web is a huge garbage-bin, this infomration can be well unreliable, perhaps even invented.

adjacency - between - Indyweb / Indranet provenance - quote - web is a huge garbage-bin - adjacency relationship - Indyweb / Indranet feature of provenance, - the permanent, immutable association with information with the original information source person(s) - can eliminate the problem of misquoting information sources through its inherent people-centered design philosophy - which associates all information created with the information creator - Information that is created within the Indyweb is naturally and permanently associated to the creator in a provable, immutable way

from - Nora Bateson discussion of her new book Combining opening with a phrase that sounds much like the misattributed Einstein quote - Nora does not attribute the quote to Einstein, but I am just noting how it is often attributed to him - https://hyp.is/i1BRviFNEe-vdOMVw3775g/docdrop.org/video/kb-hsIv9zoE/

for - key insight, quote - the Pact between the West and dictators since 1992

quote - Since 1992 it's been a good deal - The Pact that the Western Alliance has made with dictators around the world - we'll buy your oil you can get rich - we'll look the other way when you kill your own people - but you just can't attack your neighbors

for - individual / collective gestalt - gene centrism - paradigm shift - adjacency - mistake of 20th century biology - reductionism - separating organism from environment - individual / collective gestalt, individual / environment gestalt - quote - mistake of 20th century biology - Ray Noble - key insight - mistake of 20th century biology- Ray Noble

quote - mistake of 20th century biology - Ray Noble - (see below)

• I think one of the other mistakes that have been made in biology of the 20th century
  • was to treat organisms as if they existed within an environment that was sort of like some nebulous box as it were
  • and you could study the organism by taking it out
  • and you study it in isolation
• It's the beginning of reductionism in a sense because
  • you taken it away from the environment but the organism has an intimate relationship with the environment
• It's feeding both
  • to the environment and
  • from the environment
• What is that environment?
  • That environment in large part is
    • other organisms of the same species but
    • other organisms of different species
• and it's in a continuous bubble of change
• It's like a cauldron of change
• So the big question for life is
  • how do you maintain yourself in this cauldron of change?
• You cannot do it by standing still
• You have to respond to it
  • so it's not surprising therefore that you find that you know organisms have mechanisms for responding to those changes

adjacency - mistake of 20th century biology - between - reductionism - separating organism from environment - individual / collective gestalt, - individual / environment gestalt - adjacency relationship - The mistake that 20th century biology has made is in - ascribing too much power to the gene, and - minimizing the role of epigenetics - Focusing the majority of attention and resources on the genes of the organism, and - defocusing attention on the organisms (epigenetic) interactions with the environment, including both - biotic elements and - abiotic elements - It's not the case that the genes are the major determinant factor and the epigenetics play a minor role - It IS the case that epigenetics play an equally important role in transmitting and assimilating features into the genome - The individual organism is intertwingled with its environment and with other living organisms - The individual / collective gestalt and the individual / environment gestalt is the appropriate unit of study

for - quote - 70 years of evolutionary biology has to be undone

for - quote - genes don't control Richard Dawkins - Ray Noble

for - quote - the age of reason became unreasonable - Ray Noble

quote - the age of reason became unreasonable - Ray Noble - (see below)

• The Age of Reason became unreasonable
  • in the sense of treating us as machines
• Reason requires openness ,
  • it doesn't require a closed view of life and of humanity

for - quote - human agency - Ray Noble

quote - (see below)

• It had to give us something which all the other organisms didn't have which was
  • a cell that was different
  • a mind that was different
• that gave us agency
  • but denied it to other organisms
  • and that unfortunately I think persisted

for - purpose in nature - exorcism of - Ray Noble - quote - gene centered view - organisms as machines - exorcism - Ray Noble - gene centered view

for - quote - progress trap - speed of cultural evolution - Ray Noble

for - quote - reductionism has failed - Denis Noble

for - quote - better approach than gene sequence as universal panecea

quote - better approach than gene sequence as universal panecea - (see quote below)

• Look at the high-level organization of the system
  • the living system
• Locate what is going wrong there and then work down to find what you might do
• at lower levels with a drug or any other kind of treatment for that matter to put it right
• That works much better than trying to go the other way because
  • going the other way, the space for
    • possible molecules and
    • possible effects and
    • even more possible combinations of effects
  • because those complex diseases are going to require combinations of treatment
  • There are too many
  • You can't do clinical trials on all of those possibilities
  • It's just far too expensive
  • So I think we just take need to take a different approach to medical research
    • to try to benefit from the human genome sequencing
    • in a way that's different from what they originally promised

for - quote - Darwin would never have been a Neo-Darwinian - Denis Noble

for - quote - being wrong - Denis Noble

quote - Being wrong - Denis Noble - If we didn't have people who were wrong - we wouldn't be where we are

for - quote - gene plays passive role - quote - Keith Baverstock

quote - gene plays a passive role - (see quote below)

• the gene plays a passive role as a Vital Information store
• it enables us to make all the proteins we need,
  • all the rnas we need but
• it is the phenotype,
  • that is you and me
• that plays the active role

for - quote - Denis Noble - quote - baby not born selfish

"The great books are the inexhaustible books. The books that can sustain a lifetime of reading."

"The great books are the books that never have to be written again. They are so good no-one can try to write them again."

"The great books are the books that everyone wants to have read but no-one wants to read."

This is the pull quote maybe? :)

for - quote - digital decentralised governance - implications of for civilization

quote - digital decentralised governance - implications of for civilization

• (see below)

• If that definition of civilization is accepted, that means that the creation of a non-local digital layer of infrastructure,

  • which allows for the massive self-organization and mutual coordination of trans-local projects,
• is in itself a fundamental challenge to the civilizational model as we have known it for the last five thousand years.

for - quote - taste - who can't develop it - perfectionists - key insight - finding our own unique voice - adjacency - creativity - learning from others - synthesis

quote - taste - who can't develop it - (see below)

• the one thing I can't teach is taste,
  • and the one predictor I have of the people who will never develop it are
    • the ones who are perfectionists.
• Because they're filtering their-- perfectionists that filter their perfection through the feedback of others.

comment - We we are overly dependent on others - it becomes difficult to develop our own - taste or - style - To develop our own unique taste is a balancing act - we are influenced by others by digesting the work of others - but then we must synthesize our own unique expression out of that - A useful metaphor is tuning a string - too loose and it can't work - neither if it is too tight - it snaps

adjacency - between - creativity - learning from others - synthesis - adjacency statement - our creativity depends on a balance of - learning from others - synthesizing what we've learned into something uniquely ours

for - quote - most important thing to practice as an artist - Rick Ruben

quote - single most important thing to practice as a musician - Rick Ruben - (see below)

• Understanding how you feel in the face of other voices,
  • without second guessing yourself,
• is probably the single most important thing to practice as an artist.

for - quote - art vs non-art - Rick Ruben

quote - art vs non-art - (see below)

• When we go to school, it's to get us to follow the rules.
• And in art, it's different,
  • because the rules are there as a scaffolding to be chipped away

comment - To produce unique art, we are after something unique and different - not more of the same

for - key insight - not knowing - advantages - quote - Rick Ruben - quote - advantages of having no references

quote - advantages of having no references - (see below)

• I had the advantage,
  • early in my career,
• of starting making music without any experience,
• which was helpful, because
  • I didn't know what rules I was breaking.
• And so it wasn't intentional breaking of rules.
  • I just did what seemed right to me,
  • but I didn't realize that I was doing things that other people wouldn't do.

for - quote - Prometheus complex - progress trap

quote - Prometheus complex - progress trap - (see below)

• Our hands and our brains will,
  • perhaps unconsciously
• drift towad the very thing we're debating if we should do
• author - Jenny Thomson

for - quote - Prometheus complex - progress trap

quote - Prometheus complex - progress trap - (see below)

• As the rational, intellectual part of ourselves wrestles with the decision,
  • a deeper Promethean part of ourselves has pressed it (the red button) already
• author - Jenny Thomson

for - quote - Dan Carlin - quote - progress trap - Prometheus complex - Dan Carlin

quote - progress trap - Prometheus complex - (see below)

• [I wonder] whether or not human society actually has the agency that we think we have
  • to not invent something if we think it might be bad.
• If you look down the technological road in the distance and see something horrible, could humankind go,
  • ‘Oh, you know what? We’re just not going to go there.’
• I’m not sure we have that agency.

comment - Deep Humanity praxis proposes that a new discipline of Progress traps is what is needed to do exactly this - Give us a meta perspective so that we can assess future harm and damage as - AN ACTIONABLE FORESIGHT, not a - TREATABLE HINDSIGHT

for - stories - salience of adjacency- imagination - stories - futures - Ernest Becker - self - timebinding - symbolosphere - quote - Brian Eno - book - Citizens - Jon Alexander - Arian Conrad - citizens - not consumers

quote - Brian Eno

• The stories we tell
  • shape how we see ourselves, and
  • how we see the world.
• When we see the world differently,
  • we begin behaving differently,
  • living into the new story.
• When Martin Luther King said
  • “I have a dream,”
• he was
  • inviting others to dream it with him,
  • inviting them to step into his story.
• Once a story becomes shared in that way,
  • current reality gets measured against it and
  • then modified towards it.
• As soon as we sense the possibility of a more desirable world,
  • we begin behaving differently,
    • as though that world is starting to come into existence,
    • as though, in our minds at least, we’re already there.
• The new story becomes an invisible force which pulls us forward.
• By this process it starts to come true.

• Imagining the future makes it more possible.

• Sometimes this work of imagination and storytelling is about the future,

  • as in Dr King’s story.
• Art can play this role:
  • what is possible in art becomes thinkable in life.
• We become our new selves first in simulacrum, through
  • style and
  • fashion and
  • art,
• our deliberate immersions in virtual worlds.
• Through them we sense what it would like
  • to be another kind of person
  • with other kinds of values.
• We rehearse new
  • feelings and
  • sensitivities.
• We imagine other ways of thinking about
  • our world and
  • its future.
• We use art to model new worlds so that
  • we can see how we might feel about them.

comment - This is a really powerful writing from Brian Eno. - Storytelling is an exercise in - the imagination of alternative possibilities to our own reality. - Stories can become both - inspirational and - aspirational - They can paint a picture in our mind of - a fantasy - a world that does not yet exist - but that nonexistent but desirable reality can then serve as the goal for which we strive - Mapping Futures interventions is then, essentially an act of desirable, inspirational make believe, and mustering the resources to turn the fantasy into reality - Progress relies on design, the imagination of unrealities in vivid detail, - in order to turn them into realities - In doing this, it is not an act carried out in ivory towers, - but in the everyday life of every one of us - We are all engaged in desirable fantasies daily whenever - we decide what meal we will prepare or restaurant to dine at - which clothing outfit to wear today - what we plan to write or say next to another - Every decision we make as a choice between different future alternatives - When it comes to planning major future decisions, - we need to have as much detail as possible of the imagined future - The Town Anywhere project conceived by Ruth Ben-Tovin and employed in the Transition Town movement for many years fis an example of such a simulacrum - https://hyp.is/mqeCtAE_Ee-Yxleqg7GFww/docdrop.org/video/cRvhY4S94ic/ - It provides an artistic space for citizens to imagine a desirable fantasy that can be embodied, enacted and deeply remembered through the participatory and collective citizen act of creating a proxy of their future local habitat in the present, and exploring and momentarily inhabiting their simulacrum. - In this way, this compelling experience is like a branding iron, searing the memory deep into our memory, where it can help guide our actions to realize the desirable fantasy. - Couched within a citizen's FREEligion and FREElosophy we generically call Deep Humanity, an open source, open knowledge approach to universal raison d'etre for what it deeply means to be human, Town Anywhere can scale to fire up the imagination of citizens to co-create our collective future. - Town Anywhere, along with other citizen initiatives which I belong to that advocate healthy citizen power such as SONEC, Stop Reset Go, Deep Humanity, the Indyweb, Living Cities Earth and many, many others can emerge a human murmuration to drive the transition - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fleemor.medium.com%2Fmesmerized-by-the-murmuration-on-human-potential-f4c9ffe06ffa&group=world - As Jon Alexander and Arian Conrad write here, we have to find the narratives that matter to us, where WE is the citizens. Other thinkers like Jose Ramos write along the same line: - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Foff-planet.medium.com%2Fdiscovering-the-narratives-that-matter-to-us-327958a2daec&group=world

for - quote - how things appear - quote - Nic Higham - key insight - duality

• Because of our narrowed, distorted focus,
  • we’ve become apparently disconnected from our essential Aliveness, which is universal.
• We are so accustomed to perceiving a dualistic paradigm;
  • there’s “me” and
  • a world of “others”
  • existing in an infinite and vastly unknown universe of disparate objects.

comment - Nic summarizes the dualistic perspective succinctly

for - quote - imagined duality - unpack - imagined duality

quote - imagined duality - author - Nic Higham

• On a deeper level,
• it’s imagined duality which creates all manner of separateness
  • from the kind I call “dualistic isolation,”
    • the sense that you’re identified with and alone in your body and your mind,
  • to “existential loneliness,”
    • a persistent sense of incompleteness that no amount of social or material connection can resolve.

unpack - imagined duality and existential isolation - Alone in your body and mind - in my younger days, I had a metaphor for this - Life is a movie theatre for one, yourself - Only you have access to this movie theatre - Nobody else is there to experience the totality of your experiences, except you. - You are the sole inhabitan of your YOUniverse -

for - insight - existential isolation - quote - existential isolation

• Because we’re unable to
  • experience life genuinely, or
  • relate authentically to our own nature and to others,
• we often suffer from a “dread of nothingness.”
• Loneliness, Moustakas says,
  • is part and parcel of being, of existing, which,
  • if embraced, can lead us to “
    • deeper perception,
    • greater Awareness and sensitivity, and
    • insights into one’s own being”.

existential isolation - evocative description - See David Loy's description of the same thing as the fear of our own inherent emptiness

quote - existential isolation - Nic Higham

• .But this other kind of anxiety was more like
  • a quiet, unintelligible terror,
  • a distant alarm bell,
  • an uncaused danger.
• It seemed more real and fundamental than any passing concern.
• Apparently arising from my innermost core,
  • existential anxiety was a lurking, menacing mythical figure.
• It hid in the shadows of my very Being,
  • coming at me from
    • everywhere and
    • nowhere.
• It wasn’t an entity but an inescapable mood
  • that cunningly evaded -reason and
    • remedy.
• It was
  • a constant undercurrent,
  • an impending nothingness and hollowness,
  • a strange intimacy with an enticing void,
• the cost of having a thumping heart and a free spirit.

reference - Ernest Becker - Denial of Death - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=denial+of+death - The Birth and Death of Meaning - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=the+birth+and+death+of+meaning - David Loy - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=david%2Bloy

for - quote - multiscale competency architecture - quote - book - Emergent Strategy - Adrienne Maree Brown

• Cells may not know civilization is possible.
• They don’t amass as many units as they can sign up to be the same.
• No — they grow until
  • they split,
  • complexify.
  • Then they interact and intersect and discover their purpose
    • I am a lung cell!
    • I am a tongue cell!
  • and they serve it. And they die.
• And what emerges from these cycles are
  • complex organisms,
  • systems,
  • movements,
  • societies.

adjacency - between - Adrienne Maree Brown quote - Michael Levin - adjacency statement - Adrienne's quote is the subsumed under Levin's term of multi-scale competency architecture (MSCA)

for - quote - culture is fictitious

quote - My take-away from this prescription is that - living in an illusion of your own creation is more stable than - living in an illusion created by others. - You’re better able to control your own fantasy than the cultural fiction you were born into. - I don’t doubt the logic of this, - but it’s still a cosmic cop-out. - Culture is - arbitrary, - contrived… - fabricated. - And if meaning is derived from our participation in the cultural hero-system, - then meaning is fictional too. \ -That doesn’t make meaning or culture superfluous – - indeed, they are deadly serious - but it does make them artificial. - Your sense of - inner worth and - importance, - your self-esteem and - self-assuredness, -rests entirely on make-believe.

for - quote - self esteem - self - adjacency - enlightenment - epoche - self-esteem - Ernest Becker

quote - The social environment is the only way we derive and validate our identities. The question may be “Who am I?” but the real question is “How are others supposed to feel about me?”

adjacency - between - Ernest Becker - epoche - self-esteem - enlightenment - Epoche - Epoche - phenomenological reduction - Symbiocene - Thomas Hagel - What's it like to be a Bat? - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - adjacency statement - It is fascinating intersection of adjacent ideas that the equivalency of these two questions brings up - These moments are as Gyuri talks about - having a dialogue with my old self - revisiting old ideas from a new perspective in which - more water has flowed under the bridge - The chain of discussions with my old selves began with a reading and physical annotation of Ernest Becker's physical book - The Birth ad Death of Meaning - It triggered a connection with Thomas Hagel's famous book - What's it like to be a bat? - But this connect-the-dot journey was kicked off by this morning's response to a Linked In discussion thread on the Anthropocene I've been having with Glenn Sankatsing of Rescue our Future: - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-sankatsing-7977711b8_anthropocentrism-paradox-or-theroot-of-activity-7185709152386654208-4E5t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop - There the discussion focused on whether the Anthropocene is a term that is inherently biased since it is anthropomorphic. - Glenn used the example of a Rabbit's perspective of reality. This begged the question asked by Thomas Nagel. - Reading Becker's book and especially his discussion of human's cultural evolution of the ego construct being responsible for timebinding - creating a framework of time which we are all bound to, - it made me wonder about my perspective of reality vs my cat's perspective. Am I timebound and there are forever living in the present and always have a sense of timelessness? - If so, what are the implications? How do timebound organisms create an equitable symbiocene with other species that live in the eternal now? - What's also interesting is Husserl's phenomenological reductionism - the Epoche that suspends judgment - It raises these questions: - Does the Epoche also break timebinding? - Does it allow us to have a dreamlike experience during waking consciousness? - Does it allow us to enter timelessness and therefore share a similiar state to many other species?. - If we are able to enter such a timeless state, does it increase our empathy towards others fellow species?

reference - Phenomenological reduction - Epoche - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Epoche

for - symbolosphere - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - quote

quote - self as social construction - our consciousness of self is a social construction. Symbolic self-representation is built from the outside in, which means our identities are, in essence, social products.

comment - good alignment and validation for Deep Humanity's individual collective gestalt

It may require having something like "youth spies" to keep up with the more interesting parts of contemporary culture, and these can be used for expanding one's combinatorial creativity horizon.

Quotations are easier to collect than writing things out in one's own words, not only because it requires no work, but we may be afraid of changing the original meaning by changing the original words or by collapsing the context and divorcing the words from their original environment.

Perhaps some may be afraid that the words sound "right" and they have a sense of understanding of them, but they don't quite have a full grasp of the situation. Of course this may be remedied by the reader or listener not only by putting heard stories into their own words and providing additional concrete illustrative examples of the concepts. These exercises are meant to ensure that one has properly heard/read and understood a concept. Psychologists call this paraphrasing or repetition the "echo effect" (others might say parroting or mirroring) and have found that it can help to build understanding, connection, and likeability between people. Great leaders who do this will be sure to make sure that credit for the original ideas goes to the originator and not to themselves simply because they repeated it, especially in group settings where their words may have more primacy amidst their underlings.

(I can't find it at the moment, but there's a name/tag for this in my notes? looping?)

Beyond this, can one place the idea into a more clear language than the original? Add some poetry perhaps? Make the concept into a concrete meme to make it more memorable?

Journalists like to quote because it gives primacy of voice to the speaker and provides the reader with the sense that they're getting the original from which they might make up their own minds. It also provides a veneer of vérité to their reportage.

Link this back to Terrence's comedy: https://hypothes.is/a/xe15ZKPGEe6NJkeL77Ji4Q

for - quote - working class - net zero - adjacency - working class - net zero - key insight - working class - net zero

quote - Chris Yates - within class - net zero - (see quote below)

• What is the most that a working-class person could hope for
  • from a net-zero future?
• At present,
  • in the vision being broadly promoted,
  • it’s
    • the same hard work,
    • the same exploitation,
  • but with
  • a heat pump instead of
    • a gas boiler.

quote - shared futures - climate crisis and appropriate language - (quote below)

• My belief is that
  • societies cannot organize effectively
  • to cope with
  • the impacts of climate change
  • without a shared understanding of
  • the future that awaits.
• Currently, representations of the net-zero future
  • don’t do that.
• They are a denial of the best of human nature.
• They shut down the possibility of
  • imagining something different
  • in favor of a fantasy of more of the same,
    • minus catastrophic climate change.
• With a better, shared understanding of the world we’re moving toward,
  • we can better organize ourselves to live in that world,
    • whatever that might mean,
    • whatever that might look like.

quote 2

metaphor of fire in the woods - it's a disruption, but can lead to succession and regeneration "the process is called regenerative growth. a time for rebirth sets in. From the chaos comes an opportunity"

Better not bigger

for - quote - roots of misinformation, quote - roots of fake news, key insight - roots of misinformation

key insight - roots of misinformation - (see below)

quote - roots of misinformation - we have a media that needs to survive based on - clicks and - controversy and - serving the most engaged people - so they both sides the issues - they they lift up - facts and - lies - as equivalent in order to claim no bias but - that in itself is a bias because - it gives more oxygen to the - lies and - the disinformation - that is really dangerous to our society and - we are living through the impacts of - those errors and - that malpractice -done by media in America

for - quote - Alfred Bartlett - exponential function

quote - Alfred Bartlett - The greatest weakness of the human race is its inability to understand the exponential function

for - quote - Wittgenstein - like - Buddhist canoe metaphor

quote - Wittgenstein - like Buddhist canoe metaphor - (see below)

• My propositions serve as elucidations in this way:
• He who understands me
  • eventually recognises them as nonsensical, when he has used them
    • as steps to climb up over them.
• (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it)

Comment - The Buddhist canoe metaphor is - To accomplish the journey of awakening to your ultimate nature - We use techniques that are like a canoe to travel from the shores of Samara to the shores of Nirvana - When we arrive, we no longer need them

for - BEing journey - quote - Anil Seth - neuroscience - neuroscience - perception - neuroscience - constructed reality

quote - Anil Seth - bringing to light our inner diversity - could be as transformational for society - as recognition of our externally visible diversity has been

for - quote - Michael Mann - quote - 2024 U.S. elections - future of civilization - quote - existential threat of 2024 Trump win - polycrisis - politics - inequality - climate

quote - Michael Mann - date: May 11, 2023 - source: The Hill - Op Ed - https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4290467-trump-2-0-the-climate-cannot-survive-another-trump-term/ - (see below)

• It is not an overstatement to say, one year out, that
  • we face an American election unlike any other.
• It will determine
  • not only the course of the American experiment
  • but the path that civilization collectively follows.
    • On the left is democracy and environmental stewardship.
    • On the right is fascism and planetary devastation.
• Choose wisely.

p100

This fits into the same sort of framing as Thoreau's earlier quote "men have become the tools of their tools." (p41)

see: https://hypothes.is/a/vooPrPkwEe2r_4MIb6tlFw

for - quote - Sarah Stein Lubrano - quote - self as cultural construction in WEIRD culture - sense of self

quote - (immediately below)

• It's just a weird fascination of our weird culture that
  • we think the self is there and
  • it's the best and most likely explanation for human behavior
• Other people in other cultures do not think this
• and that suggests that our sense of self is largely culturally constructed

discussion - sense of self is complex. See the work of - Michael Levin and - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=michael+levin - Major Evolutionary Transition in Individuality - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=major+evolutionary+transition+in+individuality

for - quote - Michael Mann - quote - a Second Trump presidency - polycrisis - politics and climate crisis - climate mitigation strategy - voting in 2024 U.S. election - adjacency - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Gen Z voting

adjacency - between - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Trump's presidency is existential threat to humanity - Gen Z voting - 2024 election - adjacency statement - Michael Mann's quote " A second Trump term is game over for the climate - really" applies to the 2024 election if Trump becomes the Republican nominee. - Trumps dismal environmental record in his 2016 to 2020 term speaks for itself. He would do something similiar in 2025 if he were the president. G - Given there are only 5 years and 172 days before we hit the dangerous threshold of burning through all the carbon budget for humanity, - https://climateclock.world/ - It is questionable whether Biden's government alone can do enough, but certainly if Trump won the 2024 election, his term in office would create a regression severe enough to put the Paris Climate goal of staying within 1.5 Deg C out of reach, and risk triggering major planetary tipping points - A Biden government is evidence-based and believes in anthropogenic climate change and is already taking measures to mitigate it. A Trump government is not evidence-based and is supported by incumbent fossil fuel industry so does not have the interest of the U.S. population nor all of humanity at heart. - Hence, the 2024 U.S. election can really determine the fate of humanity. - Gen Z can play a critical role for humanity by voting against a government that would, in leading climate scientists Michael Mann's words, be game over for a stable climate, and therefore put humanity and unimaginable risk. - Gen Z can swing the vote to a government willing to deal with the climate crisis over one in climate denial so voting activists need to be alerted to this and create the right messaging to reach Gen Z - https://hyp.is/LOud7sBBEe6S0D8itLHw1A/circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/41-million-members-gen-z-will-be-eligible-vote-2024

for - CAR T cells - anti aging - eliminate senescent cells in mice. - quote - anti aging - CAR T cells

quote - (see below)

• If we give it to aged mice, they rejuvenate.
• If we give it to young mice, they age slower.
• No other therapy right now can do this,
• author: Amor Vegas

for - quote - whole system change - bottom up whole system change - open function SRG/ Deep Humanity/ Indyweb / Indranet / TPF framework - definition - transformation catalyst

quote - (see below) - A transformation catalyst is an actor who - brings together numerous initiatives and actors around a shared and co-defined set of interests - with an action agenda in mind. - The TC stewards these actors through a set of three general (dialogue- and action-based) processes that can be adapted - to the unique context, needs, and interests - of each system and its players. - So organized, initiatives can collectively co-evolve and co-emerge - into a purposeful transformation system - oriented towards whole system change in a given context (which could happen - locally, - regionally, - bioregionally, or even more broadly - depending on the actors and orientations involved

for -: quote - Glenn Sankatsing

quote - You can’t transform hell - while the devil brings more coal. - We’ve given in to system-maintenance gimmicks like - clean energy for a dirty system, - recycling the ever-increasing waste of perpetual growth, and - war as the guardian angel of peace, - and evil has run rampant.

for - quote - Whitehead - quote -creativity

quote - Creativity is what reality is made of and it's not a substance, it's a process

for - adjacency - sensory bubble - umwelt - living in a simulation - Daisetz Suzuki - elbow doesn't bend backwards - quote - Michael Levin - illusion

adjacency - between - sensory bubble - umwelt - living in a simulation - Daisetz Suzuki - the elbow does not bend backwards - adjacency statement - In the Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, the illusory body training is to experience both one's body and reality as an illusion in the sense that nothing is static and fixed - From this perspective, we are all temporary states of convergence of the recirculating elements of emptiness - Daisetz Suzuki, the enlightened Japanese Zen monk who is credited to be one of the ones who brought Zen to the West said that when he experienced Kensho, he could suddenly understand the puzzling koan "The elbow does not bend backwards" with great clarity. - Form is a concentration and temporary consolidation of emptiness, the limitations inherent in any form does not denigrate is absolute origins from unlimited emptiness - The Heart Sutra expresses the equivalence of form and emptiness, finite and infinite. - In Deep Humanity, we have a saying: - To be or not to be - that is the question - To be AND not to be - that is the answer

• Quote: Michael Levin
  • Sometimes people ask me "is it possible that we're living in a simulation?
    • and and if you think about it it's not just possible it's guaranteed.
  • There's no other way it could possibly be
  • If you think about what is the opposite of that
    • the opposite of that is that you somehow have a physically embodied cognitive structure that
      • is able to,
      • is not limited in its sensory perceptions
      • is not limited in the amount of memory and computations
  • All of us are limited beings
  • All of us evolved under constraints of
    • time
    • energy and
    • everything else -We see a tiny, little, narrow slit in the electromagnetic spectrum
  • We have a few other things
    • like chemical senses of things that are right there on your tongue and
    • on your fingers and so on
    • we have a little bit of memory
    • we have this wet squishy substrate
      • that's very error prone and
      • needs to be constantly maintained
    • and all our memories have to be the actively rewritten
    • We were evolved under specific pressures under those conditions
  • Who could possibly think that that we are not living in some sort of very specific representation of reality
    • that is limited in many ways
  • That's not to say
    • it isn't adaptive and that
    • Donald Hoffman would say that in many ways it is completely wrong
  • I I think there's probably some truth to that
    • but in other ways I think the the big lesson from all this is that
    • we are all a brain and a vat
  • Of course we are a brain sitting inside this thing that gives us various stimuli
  • We try to make the best sense of it that we can and creatures will adapt to
  • This is why you can do
    • sensory substitution and
    • sensory augmentation and why
    • you can have neurons in the dish that play Pong
  • but these systems will try to make sense of whatever world they're given
    • in whatever configuration they have and we do the same
  • So yeah absolutely it's an illusion
    • but it's not an illusion in the sense that there is some other way to have perfect direct perception of some underlying reality
  • When we say it's an illusion or a simulation
    • It just acknowledges the fact that we are finite limited beings
    • whose job it is to make the best sense we can
    • using the hardware that we have
    • of what's been going on up until now and what we predict is going to be going on
  • I don't know of another story that could possibly make sense

for - quote - Michael Levin - quote - Human INTERBeCOMing

• quote
  • ()
    • the contents of your mind,
    • your self model,
    • your model of the outside world,
    • where the boundary between you and the outside world is
      • so where do you end and the outside world begins
  • all of these things are constantly being constructed and created.

validation for - Human INTERBeCOMing - Levin validates Deep Humanity redefinition of human being to human INTERbeCOMing, as a verb, and ongoing evolutionary process rather than a fixed, static object

for - quote - commonality between far left and far right - key insight

If there’s a commonality between far Left and far Right, says Lyons,

• it’s a common opposition to the status quo
  • but one that’s based on fundamentally different reasons.

• for: meme - make it expensive to destroy the planet, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - make it expensive to destroy the planet, key insight - make it expensive to destroy the planet

• key insight

• meme
• quote: Johan Rockstrom
  • we need to make the transition acceptable and attractive for the vast majority of citizens, and the only way to do that, is to make the changes easy to adopt. This requires strong engagement with society at large, and policies that make sustainable life choices not only easier, but also cheaper and more attractive. Or, put it the other way around, it must be more expensive to destroy the planet or the health of our fellow citizens".

• for: quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - positive tipping points, quote - social tipping points, social tipping points, stop, positive tipping points

• quote: Johan Rockstrom

  • We need to trigger exponential change across sectors and geographies by phasing out fossil fuels while taking advantage of positive social and economic tipping points.

• for: quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - uncertainty at 1.5 Deg C for years

• quote: Johan Rockstrom

  • now we are facing a high risk of overshooting 1.5°C - at best - for several decades. Currently, we must admit that we do not know what the consequences are of such an overshoot, i.e., we do not know how long time the big tipping point systems - like the Gulf Stream or the Coral Reef systems, can cope with high risk temperatures above 1.5°C.

• for: climate mitigation, stats - 40% reduction by 2030, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - fossil fuel phase out

• quote: Johan Rockstrom

  • All stakeholders in the world must now act according to the agreed Cop28 output, and deliver on the CopP28 Global Stocktake Agreement,
    • which means rapidly transitioning away from oil, coal and gas, aiming at more than 40% reductions by 2030
• Date: Dec 31, 2023

• for: key question - maximizing returns

• key question

• quote: Marjorie Kelly
  • Is maximizing returns really what we insist upon if that is the force that's driving our fragility and ecological crisis?

• for: quote - transformation

• quote: Marjorie Kelly

  • We don't start by asking: Is transformation possible? We start by asking: Is it necessary?

• for: quote - Martin Luther King Jr., quote - first steps

• quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

  • You don't need to know the layout of the entire staircase to take the first step

• for: quote - Martin Luther King Jr., quote racial integration alone is not enough

• quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

  • I think we are going to win the battle of integration but i worry I'm integrating my people into a burning house

• comment

  • It's not good enough to share in the same privileges as whites because the way that wealth supremacy works, ALL peopple suffere equally.

• for: quote - Marjorie Kelly, quote - finacialization, progress trap - financialization, progress trap - capitalism, speculative investing

• quote: Marjorie Kelly

  • we're not in the economy of the 1950s anymore.
  • And we act as though we are, that finance is this productive force and it's building, it's building wealth.
  • Well, for the most part, it's not.
  • There's so much financialization, so many financial assets, that they've become an extractive force.
    • And a big piece of this is that we're not really distinguishing between
      • productive investments and
      • speculative investments

• for: quote - wellness industry - far right ideals

• quote

  • the underlying tenets of wellness culture also set the stage for a paranoid individualism: Neoliberal wellness culture’s message “that individuals must take charge over their own bodies as their primary sites of influence, control, and competitive edge” and “that those who don’t exercise that control deserve what they get” has turned out to be “all too compatible with far-right notions of natural hierarchies, genetic superiority, and disposable people.”

• for: quote - James Hansen, quote Benjamin Franklin, climate crisis - leverage point - political revolution

• quote

  • If we don't solve the problem in the United States, I don't see us solving the global problem
• author: James Hansen

• date: Dec 2023

• comment

  • Tipping Point network

• for: quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - elite positive feedback carbon inequality loop, climate crisis - societal aspirations, elites - societal aspirations, societal aspirations, key insight - societal aspirations

• quote

  • This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
    • societal aspirations and
    • the narratives around climate change.
  • These extend from
    • well-funded advertising to
    • pseudo-technical solutions,
    • and financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to
    • labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.

• comment

• key insight - societal aspirations
  • it is the societal aspiration of the logic of capitalism and the free market that continues to create the next generation of the 1%
  • How can the luxury industry NOT BE high carbon intensity? It's an oxymoron. High carbon is baked into the definition of luxury, and it is luxury goods and services which accelerate climate breakdown.
  • The elites have a strong feeling of entitlement. They feel they DESERVE to reward themselves with a luxury lifestyle. That aspiration and reward structure multiplied by 80 million (1% of 8 billion) is a major variable driving the climate crisis

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari - AI progress trap, progress trap - AI, quote - progress trap

• quote it is extremely dangerous to create such an autonomous agent when we do not know how to control it, when we can't ensure that it will not escape our control ad start making decisions and creating new things which will harm us instead of benefit us

• author: Yuval Noah Harari
• date 2023

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari, quote - storytelling, quote - scientific storytelling, science communication, climate communication

• key insight

• quote

  • If we want to see science having a deeper impact on society and politics, it's crucial that we have also scientific storytelling

• comment

  • I would just add that it should be COMPELLING scientific storytelling

• for: leverage point - collaboration, human superpower - collaboration, quote - collaboration, quote - cooperation

• quote the superpower of our species is not individual genius, it's the ability to cooperate in large numbers.

• author: Yval Noah Harari
• date: 2023

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari, quote - polycrisis

• for: quote - social constructs - liberals and conservatives, social norms - liberals and conservatives, insight - social norms

• in other words

• insight

  • the tug of war between liberals and conservatives is one of the difference in pace of accepting new social norms

• adjacency between

  • social norms
  • liberal vs conservative
  • stories
• adjacency statement
  • When stories are different between different cultural groups, the pace of accepting the new social norm can need quite different due b to the stories being very different

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari, quote - nothing wrong with fictions

• quote -This God is very clearly a human invention. Now it doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. It doesn't certainly mean its unimportant.

• author: Yuval Noah Harari

• for: quote - deep inheritance of evolutionary adaptations

• quote

  • we need to understand the deep inheritance within us in order to understand our emotions, our fears and our behaviors in the 21st century.
• author: Yval Noah Harari

• for: quote - the impossible, quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon

• quote

  • We don't know the world's around us the systems around us well enough to know that good things are impossible
• author: Thomas Homer-Dixon
• date: 2021

• for: quote - when we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong, quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon

• quote

  • When we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong
• author: David Korten, quoted by Thomas Homer-Dixon
• date: 2021

• for: quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon, quote - danger of AI, AI progress trap

• quote: danger of AI

  • I think the most dangerous thing about AI is not super smart AI, it's stupid AI that is good enough to be put in charge of certain processes but not good enough to not make really bad mistakes
• author: Thomas Homer-Dixon
• date: 2021

• for: quote - survival of the richest, climate crisis - elite walled community

• quote: survival of the richest

  • All that's going to happen to these extraordinarily wealthy folks with their estates in New Zealand with their landing strips is that they're going to have an extra couple of decades to watch things fall apart around them and that doesn't sound very appealing to me
• author: Thomas Homer-Dixon

• date: 2021

• reference

  • Douglas Rushkoff wrote a book on this phenomena
    • https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/

• for: example - systems thinking, quote -: many people are complex systems thinkers

• quote:

  • many people are complex systems thinkers even though they don't know it
• Thomas Homer-Dixon

• date: 2023

• examples: complex systems clichés

  • the whole of greater than the sum of its parts
    • nonlinearities
  • the straw that broke the camels back
    • emergence

• comment

  • the first one could be that systems are not the same as just all the parts
  • the second one could also represent Tipping points and nonlinearities of complex systems

-for: polycrisis - leverage point - hope, quote - leverage point - hope

• for: key point: alternative COP - breakaway group of nations, quote - alternative COP

• quote

  • What is needed is a breakaway group of nations willing to get serious about the climate emergency. Who would join it? Most of the world’s countries, potentially.
• author: Rupert Read

• date: Dec 4, 2021

• comment

• suggestion
  • This could very well work. By applying social tipping point theory, a coalition of the willing could potentially accomplish a lot more than a coalition mired in friction.
  • There is enough capacity between 100 nation states willing to take far more aggressive measures than what a few petrostates of the COP convention continuously veto that it could bring about a social tipping point.

• for: quote - COP - Rupert Read, quote - COP - come back next year and try again, quote - alternative COP

• quote

  • come back next year and try again
• author: Rupert Read

• date: Dec. 4, 2021

• quote

  • We just can't keep kicking the can down the road
• author: Rupert Read

• date: Dec 4, 2021

• comment

  • Well, COP28 is over and just as Rupert Read predicted above, we will
    • kick the can down the road again
    • come back next year and try again
  • It's a perpetual groundhog day, until it isn't

• for: quote - luxury cannot be democratized, 1% - democracy, elites - democracy, adjacency - luxury - democracy, luxury is not democratic, luxury is inequality, Andre Gorz, Terrestrial website, adjancency - luxury - democracy, quote luxury

• quote

  • ... By its design as by its original destination, the car is a luxury good. And luxury, in essence, cannot be democratized: if everyone has access to luxury, no one benefits from it; on the contrary: everyone cheats, frustrates and dispossesses others and is cheated, frustrated and dispossessed by them.
• author: Andre Gorz
• date: Sept. 25, 2023

• publication: Terrestrial

  • https://www.terrestres.org/2023/09/25/jadore-la-bagnole-andre-gorz-repond-a-macron/

• comment

  • insightful comment reveals an adjacency between luxury and democracy that is obvious in hindsight, but missed seeing in foresight!

• adjacency between:

  • luxury
  • democracy
• adjacency statement
  • luxury is, by definition a premium artefact so by definition is beyond the reach of most people. It is therefore un-democratic by design.

• for: quote - Sultan Al Jabber, quote - energy replacement instead of phase out, key point - focus on energy transition instead of just fossil fuel phase out

• quote

  • Whatever one thinks of Sultan Al Jaber, one statement he’s made repeatedly makes perfect sense: “We cannot unplug the world from the current energy system before we build a new energy system.”
  • The focus, then, has to shift.
    • Instead of focusing on dismantling the incumbent system,
    • we need to focus on accelerating the deployment of the new system that will replace it
• author: Nafeez Ahmed

• date : Dec 6, 2023

• key point

  • we must focus on the energy shift instead of just the phase out or down of the old energy system

• for: quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - 1% manipulation

• quote

  • This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
    • societal aspirations and
    • the narratives around climate change.
  • These extend from
    • well-funded advertising to
    • pseudo-technical solutions,
    • the financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to
    • labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.

• for: social tipping points - political, quote - french Revolution - Denmark

• quote.

  • the French Revolution happened in Denmark

• for: quote - there is no center, it's a fiction, quote - James Schneider - Progressive International

• quote

• key point
  • the things that the overwhelming majority of people support are not on the political agenda
    • which is why this whole the idea that there is a center in politics is a complete fiction
  • Elite consensus opinion is almost always massively in the minority
    • and so you have to work very hard to prevent things which are massively in the majority from getting political expression
  • Polling between 2/3 and 3/4 of people support (including generally speaking the majority of people who voted in the last election support) things like
    • public ownership of
      • energy
      • water
      • rail
      • mail, etc
    • a 15 pound an hour minimum wage
    • a wealth tax
• All of these things considered way way on the left are not on the left, that's actually the center if you're talking about where is the mainstream British public opinion - and it's such strong public opinion because no one ever says it in the public sphere and when they do they are ridiculed
• author: James Schneider, Progressive International
• date: Dec, 2023

• for: quote - political system change is required

• quote

  • the changes that we need to make our political system go well beyond having a better party or changing who some of the MPS are and so on
    • because it is structurally set up to insulate the ruling class from popular pressure

• for: quote, climate futures - both green new deal and regrowth don't work, green new deal - criticism, degrowth - criticism