As long as governments, intergovernmental organisations and businesses continue to operate using #GDPgrowth and profit as their dominant metric for investment decisions, is humanity on an inevitable path (even if unintended) to enclose, privatize, monetize & industrialize all aspects of life? 🤔
Turning ideas of #mutualwellbeing into practice...
#WellbeingPolitics #DoughnutEconomics #WellbeingPolicy
This report identifies Six Silent Majorities concerned about #ClimateChange & #SocietalFailures - Do you identify yourself with one or more of these?
If so what can you do?
"from silent majorities to collective agency"
@climatemajority.bsky.social
assets.climatemajorityproject.com/Mobilising%2...
The move towards ecologically & socially responsible business practices is building pace.
Where in the next five years will the business you are in (or are setting up) be on the scale between 1) Ecologically & Socially Responsible and 2) Extractive & Exploitative?
#Business #DoughnutEconomics
When both sides are bad, we all lose ☹️
Deeply sad how many people are stuck in cultures that still worship the lizard brain mind-set of 'Might makes Right'.
It doesn't help that cultural history often glorifies brief moments of power by little minded men (+ some women) and glosses over the awful consequences for just about everyone.
We are bombarded in our cultural histories & fiction with stories of good people having to kill bad people.
Where though is the cultural reflection on how we might prevent many conflicts by stopping advantage-taking & exploitation behaviours from being allowed in our political cultures?
#Politics
Some observations on #SystemsThinking
* Your model of the system will be way too simplistic.
* Awareness does not imply ability to execute.
* Many of the things that look like patterns are actually emergent...
blundercheck.timberschroff.com/p/systems-th...
What is Intelligence?
#DeepQuestioning
Can we align the individual and the collective?
Or, to frame the question in my own way: Can we move from adverserial thinking & behaviours to #mutualwellbeing ones?
Why bother with the question?
Because it has a major impact on the quality of your life...
wtt @nonzerosumjames.bsky.social
A quick #intro for the lovely people here on Bluesky... nice to meet you!
listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening)
read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)
The posts by @albertinkman.bsky.social on increasing depth of thought and discourse look very interesting...
#openknowledge
thezeitgeistexperiment.com#tree
In broad terms, to what extent does a person's knowledge, sense of self and morality influence each other?
[Looking at life through the three eyes of epistemology, ontology & ethics in a search of richer understanding]
#DeepQuestioning
Is it fair to say that the less people see themselves as a part of humanity, life & the environment and the more they see themselves apart from other people, life and existence, the more likely it is they are to adopt inhumane, exploitative & extractive thinking and behaviours?
Here is a resource investigating and promoting further thinking on #WellbeingEconomics
#BeyondGDP
Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll
@WEAll_Alliance
weall.org/what-is-well...
Could #AI have a positive effect on human behaviour?
Those prone to predatory behaviours (fixated on power, status & money) will use the technology to further their delinquent wants but could humans & #AI holding humane mindsets counter that and even advance #mutualwellbeing?
Have you noticed:
1) how often humans, organisations & societies feel a need to reduce a deep "Purpose" to easily measured Metrics?
2) How often the Metrics then replace the Purpose as the focus, even if the metrics become disassociated from the deeper purpose?
#Happiness v #GDP
#DeepQuestioning
Do you have the contextual knowledge to make a good decision?
How could you improve your useful contextual knowledge?
Not just #IQ and #EQ but also #CQ #ContextualKnowledge
#DeepQuestioning
The Contextual Knowledge Gap Theory (CKGT) by
@ICscript medium.com/technology-p...
The Survival of the Kindest: Evolution’s New Groove
Evolution rethought as a web shaped by genes, environments, culture and co-operation.
#mutualwellbeing #Darwin
www.prosocial.world/posts/the-su...
Well-being #Politics based on open knowledge is not constrained to Right, Left or Centre party thinking but based on nuanced #systemthinking seeks paths to sustainable personal & mutual well-being that transcend political tribalism.
#WellbeingPolitics #openknowledge
www.linkedin.com/pulse/1-mutu...
This article👇relates to AI in commerce but I think is also important for any civil society organisation (using AI or not).
How well does your institution understand the context it is operating within? What are your contextual knowledge gaps?
#WellbeingPolicy #AI
simple.ai/p/rise-of-th...
When some political leaders are promoting the inhuman concept that "Might makes Right", the UK government should be helping people to stand up to that and express their concerns without violence not crush them.
WTT @compinpolitics.bsky.social
#politics
www.compassioninpolitics.com/end_the_misu...
Shouldn't we be very concerned about how easily and quickly people feel compelled to fix their personal identity to one of the sides in a conflict, whether it is political, commercial, legal or cultural, rather than retain a more independent and open minded identity?
#SelfIdentity #DeepQuestioning
"People are NEVER the enemy. We can and must resist and combat harmful behavior and harmful systems..."
#Democracy #Politics
open.substack.com/pub/citizens...
What History were you taught?
The History I was taught was 'Bad History', in the sense that it was nearly all about conflict & power,
PLUS
it has helped to maintain the continuing acceptance of a power-games culture in #politics.
#DeepQuestioning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History
Do you consider Deep Questioning and Complex Understanding to be part of your skill set?
Why not?
Have you been told you are not clever enough? That is a lie, you just need to dare to start asking deeper questions...
With thanks to @kablooie.bsky.social for this post 👇
#DeepQuestioning
3 Ways to Deepen Conversations
Why does someone want what they want?
What other options or alternatives can we think of?
Where does that information come from?
#DeepQuestioning in search of #MutualWellbeing
www.bluezones.com/2021/06/how-...
I recommend this paper by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, as a perspective worth reading & considerable thought for anyone concerned about what their life & human life in general could be like beyond five years time...
#AI #Politics #Economics #WellbeingPolicy
www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
Doughnut in local governments: a global overview
Research studying the practical application of Doughnut Economics in 50 local governments @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social
#Economics #Government #Politics #WellbeingPolicy
doughnuteconomics.org/stories/doug...
Just as the Map is not the Country, so the Narrative or History is not the Life or the Event.
