Are you addicted to THE FUTURE?
I already know that you are. You don't think so? I'm here to tell you that you ARE... we ALL are! How do you get free from the addiction? (And believe me, you do want to walk away from THE FUTURE.)
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Invite them all in.
To be clear: Musk, Altman, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Thiel, etc. are pathological.
"Coloniality and Capitalism have castrated our imagination and hope so that we cannot co-create with liberated, living futures."
โข All we ever have is relationship.
โข Modernity castrates our imagination and hope for alternative realities.
โข Capitalism hates when we are โfutures promiscuous.โ
What does it mean to let go of the known, the certain, the familiar, the steady, the sure, and to launch into the unknown, the unraveling, and the unweaving where life truly exists?
www.revaluingcare.org/the-immigran...
the most important livestream we have ever done. I encourage you to take the time to watch the recording. You can disagree, but the time for passive, agnostic, and co-opted futures thinking is over! Letโs join together to embrace co-created transformation for alternative realities!
Join today at 12pm est!
www.linkedin.com/posts/franks...
Great example today of how, like data, trends are in the eye of the beholder and we can make them say anything we want them to say. During a client interview today I was confidently told about a โtrendโ straight out of the playbook of the patriarchy that is the opposite of the broader zeitgeist.
Iโm excited to share our latest episode of Creating Foresight Furled Action featuring the incredible philosopher, author, and wanderer Sophie Strand! โStories donโt belong to us; we belong to stories.โ
If foresight is about perceiving alternative possibilities, why do we say the future is a seed in the present? If foresight is defined by imagining alternatives, why use it to uphold present systems? Since our present systems have utterly failed us, why wouldnโt foresight challenge those systems?
๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐๐๐ค๐๐: ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ is a new podcast b/t FuturePod Co-Founder Peter Hayward and TFSX Co-Founder Frank Spencer. In these special editions of the much-loved FuturePod, Peter and Frank commune with โfriends of the futureโ whose voices are a needed elixir of imagination, dreaming, & hope.
We recently held a webinar announcing The Dragonfly Journey - a community of practice embodying the bio, psycho, and sacred dynamics of foresight that re-wilds our cooperative relationship with futures consciousness. The video is now available, and registration to the year-long journey is open!
Join us December 10th @ 2pm est as we launch our year-long community of practice to expand on the journey of cooperation, perception, emergence, novelty, co-creation, and transformation surrounding the futures thinking philosophy of Holoptic Foresight Dynamicsยฎ.
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Prioritizing quantification is fundamentally flawed, doesn't lead to greater insights (or foresight), is not the best way to make decisions, doesn't represent a mature expression of life itself, and shrinks our perception of reality. Watch here: youtu.be/WxKEvsMIRFw
It was an incredible honor to interview the amazing Sophie Strand this week for our Creating Foresight Fueled Action series. (IG: @cosmogyny) This interview, entitled We Belong To Stories, will be released right after the holidays. Visit my.TFSX to access the entire series.
The Coming Purge
Historically, one of the first actions authoritarian regimes take when consolidating power is to target intellectualsโwriters, artists, academics. In the US, the signs of the coming purge are already here. Intellectuals should be aware. My first Bluesky thread follows ๐งต /1
I figure this is a good pic for my first post, interpret as you will. Despite the look, I will be spending the next four years building a community of care, empathy, hope, transformation, and love. Join me in The Dragonfly Journey! my.tfsx.com/events/the-d...
