Dignifying the time line of long term considered thinking
On one hand, we need to make sense of what is now. To look at the whole. On the other hand, we need to hold the potential for a future we want.
And from these two polarities, we might then make a choice.
Too often we rush any or all of these elements.
We fall down a rabbit hole of AI and tribal, in-group storytelling, neglecting to look at the whole field. We reflexively make our minds up based on the values we think important.
We then throw a choice of action as a response, caring less about the values or perspectives of the other.
In a world of increasing complexity, where all of us have been infected by the algorithm, we might stop.
Step back. Consider the whole.
Admit as a primary step that each of us, no matter our age or demographic, has been infected by the algorithm. That our view is partial. That our ideas hold some truth, but not the whole truth.
Then rather than rush to solutions, consider the whole. Understand the motivating values we hold as worthy. Consider that perhaps many others hold the same values.
Seek to find solutions only after doing this, dignifying the timeline of long-term considered thinking.
But we do not do this. Our political, emotional and economic cycles are not designed to do this. Instead, we have been trained to go hard and break things.
And so we break…
We need to change.
Photo taken July 25th 2021
