Open Thinking

Thinking that challenges or sidesteps the common model of modern society, about open culture, permaculture, alternate lifestyles or whatever. I might agree with some of it and disagree with the other, but one thing I agree with is that there should be more space in our societies for alternate choices, be they nomadic or economic or whatever, whether we understand them or not.
Oct 31 '11
underpaidgenius: Amazing interactive graphic capturing the dynamics of the Euro Crisis. (via An Overview of the Euro Crisis - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com)

underpaidgenius:

Amazing interactive graphic capturing the dynamics of the Euro Crisis.

(via An Overview of the Euro Crisis - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com)

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Mar 13 '11
“But we disguised that. We designed a way for you to sip your starbucks and listen to Vivaldi sitting on top of this continuous explosion. And more than any other design, this design of the car reshaped our cities and changed the world. Everywhere, we designed our cities for cars. Even places in the world where the people are dead set against the American values of liberal democracy, they embrace traffic. Traffic is the lingua franca of the 20th century.”
— Bruce Mao, Urbanity Revised (via underpaidgenius)

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Oct 28 '09
“No one is in control. Obama isn’t getting anything done, despite being the most powerful person on the planet, because he can’t. The ‘leaders’ aren’t going to deal with climate change or peak oil or pandemic disease or unsustainable debts, because no one has the power or authority to do anything, and because it would be political suicide to admit that the only solutions that might work will be radical, painful, and require a lot of sacrifice from everyone. So all you get is posturing, and it’s just going to get worse. This is what unsustainable means.”
— How to Save the World

Oct 21 '09
I want us both to agree to say one true thing out loud everyday. To remember one real person. To remind ourselves that our tragedies—yours and mine—are lived and felt one person at a time; just like our hope, our renewal, our future can also be lived and carried out into the world, one person at a time. You have a chance to be that person. So make a promise with me: I promise to humble myself. I promise to grieve. I promise to bow down to truth. I promise to argue. I promise to listen and to live with intention. I promise to know my own strength. I promise to risk something. I promise to stop talking about what hasn’t been done and start doing something different. We are 6.7 billion real people who want to be remembered (via who we are / how we live: My Message to World Leaders )

I want us both to agree to say one true thing out loud everyday. To remember one real person. To remind ourselves that our tragedies—yours and mine—are lived and felt one person at a time; just like our hope, our renewal, our future can also be lived and carried out into the world, one person at a time. You have a chance to be that person. So make a promise with me: I promise to humble myself. I promise to grieve. I promise to bow down to truth. I promise to argue. I promise to listen and to live with intention. I promise to know my own strength. I promise to risk something. I promise to stop talking about what hasn’t been done and start doing something different. We are 6.7 billion real people who want to be remembered (via who we are / how we live: My Message to World Leaders

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Oct 21 '09
“Jean-Paul Sartre declared that the ultimate and final freedom that cannot be taken from a person is the ability to say “no.” To keep silent even in the face of torture or death is humanity’s most powerful, final act of will. What if that ability were to be lost? What if that final freedom is taken away and information can be taken from a person despite their act of resistance? Something precious will have been lost to the human condition because our inner lives will no longer be ours alone”
— Is My Mind Mine? - Forbes.com (via wildcat2030)

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Oct 21 '09
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I want us both to agree to say one true thing out loud everyday.
To remember one real person.
To remind ourselves that our tragedies—yours and mine—are lived and felt one person at a time; just like our hope, our renewal, our future can also be lived and carried out into the world, one person at a time. You have a chance to be that person.

So make a promise with me:
I promise to humble myself.
I promise to grieve.
I promise to bow down to truth.
I promise to argue.
I promise to listen and to live with intention.
I promise to know my own strength.
I promise to risk something.
I promise to stop talking about what hasn’t been done
and start doing something different.

We are 6.7 billion real people who want to be remembered, who only want to live a life as good and as safe as the one you live. If we promise to think of you, to work with you; I hope you’ll promise to think of us, to work for us. One person, one small baby, one dream at a time.

”
— who we are / how we live: My Message to World Leaders

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Oct 21 '09
“In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message.”
— The Medium Is the Message (Marshal MacLuhan) (via wildcat2030)

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Oct 21 '09
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We cannot continue transferring the nation’s wealth to those at the apex of the economic pyramid — which is what we have been doing for the past three decades or so — while hoping that someday, maybe, the benefits of that transfer will trickle down in the form of steady employment and improved living standards for the many millions of families struggling to make it from day to day.

That money is never going to trickle down. It’s a fairy tale. We’re crazy to continue believing it.

”
—

Bob Herbert

Safety Nets for the Rich

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Aug 29 '09
“After all, we’re a brain embedded in this larger set of structures.
You can call it culture, call it society, call it your family, call it your friend, call it whatever it is. It’s the stuff that makes people sign onto their Facebook a thousand times a day. It’s the reason Twitter exists. We have got all these systems now that really make us fully aware of just how important social interactions are to what it is to be human. The question is, how can we study that? Because that, in essence, is a huge part of what’s actually driving these enzymatic pathways in your brain. What’s triggering these synaptic transmissions and these squirts of neurotransmitter back and forth is thoughts of other people, what other people say to us, interacting with the world at large.”
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CHIMERAS OF EXPERIENCE

JONAH LEHRER

Edge 286

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Aug 25 '09
“In essence, we have to be more moral than God. A quick glance over God’s rap sheet suggests that this is, indeed, possible.”
— Blake Stacey

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