INSIGHTS TO ACTION ORIENT PROACTIVE PEOPLES TOGETHER FOR CHANGE Despicable Activism Memes To powerfully access humankind around the world to act systemically, we must engage an authentic critical praxis, reflecting on direct experience in connection with strategic action. Only by understanding power can we transform it. Through the development of critical cultural action, everyday people…
TO ENACT A WORLD THROUGH ONGOING ADAPTIVE INTERACTION WITH THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT …….take notes……. Sentient beings are not understood as heteronomous, mechanical input-output systems, but rather as dynamic, autonomous systems that regulate their ongoing coupling with the environment. Autonomous systems, then, involve emergent processes. As Thompson describes, “An emergent process belongs to an ensemble or…
ENACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE The term ‘enactivism’ does not delineate a sole account of mind or cognition but a variety of distinctive perspectives that share core theoretical assumptions. The first systematic analysis of enactivism was outlined in ‘The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (TEM)’) in an effort to shift cognitive science away from…
5 actions we need to continue to take – How to fight totalitarianism: 1) Model freedom from groupthinkLive in a way that provides inspiration for others to follow:“The one who can emancipate himself from the grip of collective psychosis and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming…
CONDITIONS FOR FREE CHOICE Ironically, true freedom of choice is possible only if the Creator is concealed. This is because if one option seems preferable, our egoism leaves us no choice but to go for it. In that case, even if we choose to give, it will be giving in order to receive, or egoistic…
So, a distinction needs to be made between the dystopian and the Apocalyptic because these categories refer to different and even opposed futuristic scenarios. The end of the world or Apocalypse typically brings about the collapse of order; dystopia, on the other hand, envisions a sinister perfection of order. In the most basic political terms, dystopia is a nightmare of…
