jonathan on collective individuation

jonathan rowson on collective individuation

2 min video (2024) via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1773064164979724588?s=20]:

A concept you should know about: * Collective Individuation by Jonathan Rowson [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMZhyRzkU68&t=3s]

2 min video from 28-30 min (of 33 min katie teague film.. notes from whole film here: jonathan on metacrisis)

notes/quotes:

at a more spiritual level it’s to do w/calling..

a place where carl jung’s idea of indivdiuation meets elinor ostrom’s idea of the functional commons.. the solving of collective action problems or collective action solutions

need to go deeper

we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8bn today.. a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8bn today.. and an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8bn legit free

ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8bn today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8bn today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8bn legit free

findings:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b legit free people

what i mean by collective individuation.. the distinction between the i and the we begins to break down.. and not in a *coercive.. there’s no individual anymore.. but rather .. the very notion of what an individual is is the part of a collective and **responding to its needs.. @Jonathan_Rowson

will be *this.. if **this (re ness).. rather.. need to org via brown belonging law and an undisturbed ecosystem..

and the very notion of a collective is what gives rise to individuated beings.. that’s what we want to get to..t

actually need to start with that.. not get to that.. ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)

1 min – but to get there.. have to tune in to something more cosmic.. something like you’re own sense of what you’re meant to be doing

not sure if i’d even say.. meant to be.. too driven.. we just need a means to listen to our undisturbed itch.. first thing everyday.. for the dance to dance..

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p

humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to simultaneous spontaneity ..simultaneous fittingness..  everyone in sync..

a lot of people.. feel there’s something they’re meant to be doing.. and the more we tune into that.. *and of course there’s feedback from the world.. otherwise you get caught in narcissistic spirals of self indulgence

*oh my.. no no no.. total whalespeak.. and that hesitation.. that.. thinking we have to have feedback from others.. is keeping us from us.. keeping us from the dance.. oi

look at what the world appears to need.. think of what you have to offer it.. and that’s where we’re thinking of something like collective individuation

oi.. help\ing ness.. is a killer.. we need curiosity over decision making (aka: people telling other people what to do)

and it’s also about potential.. it’s not just about solving a problem to *prop up that status quo.. it’s like.. what is actually transforming the world, changing the underlying form, going beyond it, creatively.. subversively.. transgressively even.. that’s the kind of work that excites me

we will keep doing *this if don’t start first thing everyday with itch.. and even moreso.. with the unconditional ness tech (via nonjudgmental expo labeling) can offer us

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