for - Mutant Futures steps

steps - Mutant Futures - 1. List the issues and themes that are important and meaningful to us. - 2. Explore the issue or theme through a deep time perspective. - 3. Organically emerge - a story of change that is - inspiring, - dramatic and - compelling - This is a story that helps us to make sense of - where we’ve come from and - where we want to go. - 4. Practice telling the story - 5. Determine what kinds of roles we want to play in this story of change. - Our narrative and the future(s) it contains might be calling forth new selves from us. - 6. Determine what - new - methods - techniques or - technologies - are being called forth from these narratives of change. - As we deconstruct outdated social constructs, we need to - imagine - prototype - build - new social constructs. - 7. Emerge the communities required to undertake this journey.

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  • two steps to form a democracy collaborative
    • more inclusive ownership
    • building the next system of capital

• THE PATHWAY TO EMERGENCE

  • Human viability depends on advancing Emergency action
  • in ways that facilitate Emergence of the
    • culture,
    • institutions,
    • technology, and
  • infrastructure
  • of an Ecological Civilization
  • guided by the maps of a 21st century eco-nomics.

• These are some action steps on the path to Emergence that follow from the Ubuntu Principle and its corollaries

  • Break up concentrations of corporate power, including private banks.
    • Restructure the individual pieces to support equitable, locally rooted participation in ownership.
    • Assure that every business is dedicated to and ultimately accountable for fulfilling a public purpose beneficial to the communities in which it does business. -Take democracy to the next level as a participatory process of community self-organization, not just a competitive voting contest between two or more candidates from opposing political parties funded by wealthy patrons. Replace GDP as the primary measure of economic performance with measures of the health and wellbeing of people, communities, and nature—giving priority to equality, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all.
    • Eliminate financial speculation and free individuals, community businesses, and governments from perpetual debt bondage.
    • Transform our relationship to nature to restore and enhance its regenerative health and beauty as we learn to nurture ourselves in ways that nurture all.
    • Organize bioregionally defined political jurisdictions around urban hubs with strong rural-urban links that
      • seek to optimize regional environmental and labor self-reliance.
      • Eliminate inefficient land use by converting suburbs to rural-urban use.
    • Eliminate gas powered vehicles and redesign infrastructure
      • to minimize dependence on private cars in all but remote rural areas.
    • Minimize air travel by
      • vacationing locally within local rural-urban jurisdictions and
      • organize all but local meetings and conferences as web conferences.
    • Strengthen non-monetized relationships
      • between people and
      • between people and the lands and waters that sustain them.
    • Encourage responsible community-centric parenting and child development consistent with a just and prosperous future for all.
    • Invest in life sciences research advancing understanding of the organizing principles, structures, and processes of healthy living systems.
    • Accelerate
      • social innovation,
      • adaptation, and
      • learning by
        • nurturing cultural diversity and
        • removing intellectual property rights impediments to the free and open sharing of beneficial knowledge and technology. • Transform economics and management educa- tion to provide future leaders with the knowl- edge and skills needed to lead institutional transformation and the creation of resilient self-governing communities.
    • Organize material processes around
      • continuous circular flows and
      • minimize movement of
        • physical and
        • energy resources
          • both within and
        • between self-reliant bioregional communities

Definition of = schismogenesis

• Gregory Bateson defines this in his book Steps to an Ecology of Mind,
• defines schismogenesis as = a “creation of division.”
• The term derives from the Greek words σχίσμα skhisma, “cleft,” (borrowed into English as schism), and γένεσις genesis, “generation” or “creation.”
• Bateson claimed that we human beings define ourselves and each other through schismogenesis.

Religions are ever-evolving ideas and practices, and like rivers, which are broadly similar and recognizable even over spans of time, can never be practiced or experienced the same way twice.

I don't think it allows you to add steps other than the ones defined here.

A useful analogy here might be the idea of having a conversation with a text. Much the way you'd have dramatically different conversations with your family versus your friends, your teachers, or a stranger in line at the store, you'll approach each particular in a different way based on the various contexts in which both they exist and the contexts which you bring to them.

Shaping has four main steps that we will cover in the next four chapters.

1. Set boudaries. First we figure out how much time the raw idea is worth and how to define the problem.

2. Rough out the elements. Then comes the creative work of sketching a solution. We do this at a higher level of abstraction than wireframes in order to move fast and explore a wide enough range of possibilities. The output of this step is an idea that solves the problem with the appetite but without all the fine details worked out.

3. Address risks and rabbit holes. Once we think we have a solution, we take a hard look at it to find holes or unanswered questions that could trip up the team. We amend the solution, cut things out of it, or specify details at certain tricky spots to prevent the team from getting stuck or wasting time.

4. Write the pitch. Once we think we've shaped it enough to potentially bet on, we package it with a formal write-up called a pitch. The pitch summarizes the problem, constraints, solution, rabbit holes, and limitations. The pitch goes to the betting table for consideration. If the project gets chosen, the pitch can be reused at kick off to explain the project to the team.

Umberto Eco indicates that every work of art can be read in one of three ways: - moral, - allegorical - anagogical

Compare this to early Christianities which had various different readings of the scriptures.

Relate this also to the idea of Heraclitus and the not stepping into the same river twice as a viewer can view a work multiple times in different physical and personal contexts which will change their mood and interpretation of the work.

Should people be judged by statements made in their youth or decades prior? Shouldn't they be given some credit for changing over time and becoming better?

How can we as a society provide credit to people's changed contexts over time?

This can be related to Heraclitus' river.

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