Yes to all of this! Just what I needed to read today. Literally for YEARS I’ve been studying this same line of inquiry - and doing my part to spread the word to anyone who will listen. There ARE alternatives - EVERYWHERE. Because they go against dominant paradigms, they are ignored and underreported. Doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of attention, study, amplification. They aren’t perfect - nothing that humans get involved in is. In 2014, I started a blog, “Thriving on the Threshold,” where I wrestled with this idea of cultivating a new/old human story. Though I’m on to other projects now, I still stand by that premise - our systems and structures will continue to cause great damage as long as we live by the story that we are separate from the living world. Robin Wall Kimmerer writes well about the indigenous understanding of our kinship, of course. As for hope, Solnit is a great go-to. Also, Joanna Macy, e.g., in “Coming Back to Life,” has an excellent framework. THANK YOU for this! Subscribing now.
"Hope is a tease designed to keep the reality from sinking in." Paraphrase from Violet on Downton Abbey. That's pretty much sums up my personal view on the hope issue.
But, if you want to go down a few rabbit holes about hope, there's no better place than the Marginalian. This excerpt about a Rebecca Solnit essay on hope touches on few of your thoughts on hope and society.
In his book, Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation, Paul Hawken offers numerous examples of people who are actively making a difference, in their own space on the planet, and in a multitude of innovative ways. In and of themselves these noble efforts are not enough to get us out of danger and into a global state of living in harmony with nature, at least not given recent trends, the intransigence of corporate greed and political self-interest, and the speed at which we are approaching key tipping points...but at least they're something. Perhaps these are some of the helpers Fred Rogers advised us to look for.
The only Adam Curtis documentary I've watched is, The Century of the Self. I've tried getting people I know to watch it, but as far as I can tell nobody has. Not sure I'll tackle the doc on Russia, but I will certainly check out some of the other links you've provided. Thank you.
Yes to all of this! Just what I needed to read today. Literally for YEARS I’ve been studying this same line of inquiry - and doing my part to spread the word to anyone who will listen. There ARE alternatives - EVERYWHERE. Because they go against dominant paradigms, they are ignored and underreported. Doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of attention, study, amplification. They aren’t perfect - nothing that humans get involved in is. In 2014, I started a blog, “Thriving on the Threshold,” where I wrestled with this idea of cultivating a new/old human story. Though I’m on to other projects now, I still stand by that premise - our systems and structures will continue to cause great damage as long as we live by the story that we are separate from the living world. Robin Wall Kimmerer writes well about the indigenous understanding of our kinship, of course. As for hope, Solnit is a great go-to. Also, Joanna Macy, e.g., in “Coming Back to Life,” has an excellent framework. THANK YOU for this! Subscribing now.
"Hope is a tease designed to keep the reality from sinking in." Paraphrase from Violet on Downton Abbey. That's pretty much sums up my personal view on the hope issue.
But, if you want to go down a few rabbit holes about hope, there's no better place than the Marginalian. This excerpt about a Rebecca Solnit essay on hope touches on few of your thoughts on hope and society.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/12/30/rebecca-solnit-hope-in-the-dark/
Yes, re-imagining is everything.
In his book, Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation, Paul Hawken offers numerous examples of people who are actively making a difference, in their own space on the planet, and in a multitude of innovative ways. In and of themselves these noble efforts are not enough to get us out of danger and into a global state of living in harmony with nature, at least not given recent trends, the intransigence of corporate greed and political self-interest, and the speed at which we are approaching key tipping points...but at least they're something. Perhaps these are some of the helpers Fred Rogers advised us to look for.
The only Adam Curtis documentary I've watched is, The Century of the Self. I've tried getting people I know to watch it, but as far as I can tell nobody has. Not sure I'll tackle the doc on Russia, but I will certainly check out some of the other links you've provided. Thank you.