Held in Motion

We're often led to believe that only certain people can or can't be imaginative, that only certain contexts & times are "appropriate" for "childishness". I endeavour to show that everyone is creative, and then how unexpected, practical steps can reignite the imagination. How play can simply be for the fun of it, for playfully addressing heavy challenges, or for creating a different tomorrow. Not only individually but collectively. Resources & Notes:@human.sparks on Instagram

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What if Goliaths could be brought down in more ways than one? What if, instead of a flashy moment or a single hero... What if we could destabilize the "ground" beneath a Goliath but reinforce the "ground" for the rest of us?

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Instagram reel talking about allegorical stories (Like Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc.) where the hero takes out the big baddie, show us how to recognize fascism and that we are impotent to stop it.

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If cognitive empathy is done selectively and sharing how sexism & misogyny are literally costing women's lives is not a motivating factor... If patriarchy is a self-reinforcing & rewarding prison costing men's lives, and that is not a motivating force... How do we connect with men about the importance of off-ramping the patriarchy?

I unpack & explore some of this, as I attempt to re-orient my thinking for moving forward.

Resources & Notes:

Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets.

Is the patriarchy really ending? I may have this wrong. Apparently, "sociologists" are not saying this. Or at least, I can't find the piece I previously read about the stages of patriarchy, and I can only find Substack & Medium articles supporting the idea. Systems analysts are supposedly seeing patterns that could infer an end, but is it, really? Hard to say.

The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates

Musk’s AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children.

Precarious Manhood, Risky Behavior, and Physical Health: A Multi-Nation Study

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I think we're at a pivotal point in history. Previously, we could build less complex systems that significantly relied on individuals doing the "right thing" — it was, essentially, an assumed cog in the machine. We used cultural narratives to create "moral" systems, so an individual would be 'moral, responsible, and accountable'. When capitalism puts everything permanently on fast-forward & there's an atomization of cultural narratives, how do we think about building & maintaining systems that can no longer rely so heavily on individuals, corporations, politicians, etc. doing "the right thing"? More complexity seems to require more complexity of thought, forethought, intention, design, etc. So, maybe it's not an all or nothing with respect to AI, social media, the internet, etc.

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The early explorations of: How do we create different online experiences? Using multiple lenses to look at the stabilizing tethers of real life vs the dissassociated experience of online life.

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