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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
48d ago“Should California be lecturing America on sustainability while experiencing gas shortages?”
- KC...
It would mean we’d have to stop building for profit cycles and start building for people. Right now we design everything — infrastructure, institutions, even relationships — around what survives the next quarter, not the next century. A 500 year mindset forces humility.... As an architect and student of human nature I have thought long and hard on this subject. I do not think it is so much deciding who gets to be the arbiter of the way things are as it needs to be How are we behaving that is contrary to our and the planets best interest.... Don Miguel Ruiz talks about this in the Four Agreements. Each family/culture programs their children with the rules to live by, the things to fear, the things to be admired. These prototypes over time have morphed into harmful at best paradigms that need to be broken.... - Eric Stevens...
JP, First and foremost, our careers run in parallel. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your questions, and frankly, it’s refreshing to engage colleague to colleague where apples are apples.... - onIf people cannot change the commodities society depends on, then protest alone will never produce lasting change.by
I don't disagree with a word you say. But, I will point out that a 24 pack of double-roll bamboo toilet paper from Amazon is nearly 4x the price of the same number of double rolls of Kroger store brand ($28 vs. $7.50).... such a good point! I just want to add that it's possible to frame creative thinking as the "explore" side of the explore/exploit dynamic. And by its nature, exploring is going to appear less worthwhile than exploiting by most metrics.... I like all this too, and it feels useful to switch lenses and look at what could be missing in this perspective. What jumps out at me from there is: Here’s one way I can hear the gist of this argument: "Hey everyone, yes humans destroying the earth is bad, but hey!... Thanks y’all, I wanted to come back to this and mention that I’ve been using the "let’s aim to protect 80%+ of the Earth’s land for environmental stewardship" frame since this convo and people are loving it.... I appreciate this clarity. Although this makes sense in the "capitalism ftw" I think this is where unconscious capitalism is actually immature, and in the long run unsustainable. Essentially bc of short-term thinking.... If I had a trillion dollars, I wouldn’t try to “fix the whole world.” I’d build something small, sane, and human‑scale — a community designed for honesty, peace, and real connection.... From my frame of mind, you don’t use it to build a bigger empire or buy your way out of the world. You use it to decentralize everything, turning that massive capital into millions of tiny, unstoppable engines of self-reliance.... - Fredwage...
I would reframe this dialog. In the big symmetries, humans travails are a thrashing calidescope of energies trying to evolve into greater complexity and energies trying to succumb to entropy. Two Arrows of Time. We humans have an impending reckoning of choices.... - Reenstierna...
Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Alexander from Sweden. I’m interested in regeneration, practical systems change, spirituality, AI, community building, and creating things that make everyday life simpler and more human....