yancey on individual ness
via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1818203550163574809]:
* The Post-Individual: An exploration of individuality after the internet https://darkforest.metalabel.com/postindividual
by yancey strickler [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancey_Strickler]:
Yancey Strickler (born November 4, 1978) is an American author, entrepreneur, and former music critic. He co-founded Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects and wrote This Could Be Our Future, a 2019 Penguin Random House book about building a society that looks beyond profit as its core organizing principle. The book also describes a decision-making framework that Yancey invented called Bentoism
decision making is unmooring us law
notes/quotes from yancey’s essay [https://www.ystrickler.com/thepostindividual/]:
Because of the internet we don’t need to define our identity based on where we physically live, who we’re born to, or what we look like, as has been the case in human history until now.
but still need global detox leap .. otherwise still not ourselves..
We’re in the midst of a significant evolution in what it means to be an individual..t
only if we let go enough to see the unconditionality of left to own devices ness.. otherwise same song.. aka: wilde not-us law of sea world
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s recent book The Dawn of Everything recounts how early Mesopotamian, American, and African societies moved between individualistic and collective periods based on how people procured food (hunting, individualistic; planting, collectivist) with a fluid complexity to identity and function:
“The freedom to abandon one’s community, knowing one will be welcomed in faraway lands; the freedom to shift back and forth between social structures, depending on the time of year; the freedom to disobey authorities without consequence — all appear to have been simply assumed among our distant ancestors, even if most people find them barely conceivable today.”
need to try something sans authority, sans disobedience (waste of time/energy).. ie: gershenfeld something else law et al
A frequent shift between individualistic and collective social systems is rooted in the human experience. But the dominance of modern institutions created top-down, hierarchical structures we’ve forgotten are meant to change.
need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs
where past worlds were bound by blood, today’s are bound by interests, desires, identities, and what the algorithms governing these spaces — helmed by capitalistic KPIs —nudge us to do.
If the experiences of past generations are a guide, what lies ahead isn’t the collapse of civilization. It’s the invention of a new one based on a very different idea of what it means to be an individual.
brown belonging law; maté trump law; et al
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us.. ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
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
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)
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be you. 