…I’m inclined to say that ‘hard’ tech founded in industrialism is living in the Holocene, which we’ve trashed and are now grinding into dust. It’s essentially living in the recent past.
‘Soft’ tech that’s trying to construct new ways of relating, new institutions that could be fit for the #wtfCene, are living in the deeper past and might actually help us live in the future.
Here’s an example of the latter, with Claudia Chwalisz of Democracy Next to walk us through it
https://overcast.fm/+BL7yMPhwmY
David talks to Claudia Chwalisz, founder and CEO of Democracy Next, about how citizens’ assemblies could help fix what’s wrong with democracy. Where does the idea of a jury of citizens chosen at random to answer political questions come from? What are the kinds of contemporary questions it could help to settle? How does it work? And what would encourage politicians to listen to citizens’ assemblies rather than to their electorates? Out now on PPF+: The second half of David’s conversation with Hannah White in which they discuss how we could get better decision-making at the heart of government. Why do politicians find it so hard to address the biggest challenges that they face? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ today https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus The 2nd film in our autumn Films of Ideas season at the Regent Street cinema is coming up on Thursday 25th September: a screening of My Dinner with Andre, followed by a live recording of PPF with playwright and…
I find that I keep coming up with ways to characterise the stupidest culture ever to have existed.
There’s the cenic route, via the #WTFcene
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113679344341081000
Just lately, I’ve been referring to the *lack of care economy*
And today, I find myself riffing on tl;dr
tl;dl
too late; didn’t learn
too little; didn’t learn
…and all along the way, to produce slightly more than we were before.
And most of the things we produce cannot be metabolised by the community of life *at all*.
What’s right with this plan?
…Anyway:
WEIRD’s not got the message, baby
It’s sad we’re gonna fade away
(What in the world is this feeling
To catch a breath and leave us reeling?)
It’ll get us in the end, overshoot revenge
Oh, we know we should come clean
But we prefer to deceive
(Every day we walk alone
And pray that overshoot won’t see us)
We know it’s wrong
I know it’s wrong
Tell me why
Are we digging the #WTFcene?
I know I’ll die, baby
Props to Dr Robert.
Not as upbeat as Weird Al, I know 😔
An Ineos #WTFcene
Ratcliffe great-grandchild:
“What did great-grandpa do in the great overshoot?”
Ratcliffe grandchild:
“Well, great-grandpa Jim was one of the biggest overshooters. He had a lot of fun running sport teams with the unimaginably large sum of money he made by shortening our lifespans with toxins. Sadly neither you nor I can use it for medical treatment because all that money has evaporated”
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