Visionary Society

Are we sheep?

I wonder, are we sheep or people? Sheep are four-legged ungulates. People are two-legged ambulates, strangulates. Our dreams are awfully small. A nice place to live and a car, a family, a vacation. Dressing up, climbing the ladder. Small talk and pleasantries. Is that all there is?

How to wake up

What is the first thing you say to yourself in the morning? As wakefulness arrives, fight the inertia. The inertia that convicts you of who you are, who you think you are: your appearance, your health, your age, your position, your possessions. Don’t underestimate yourself. What matters is this very day.

Spiritual jujitsu

Spiritual jujitsu is a kind of conceptual agility, like a gymnast doing a double twist and back flip at the same time. Spiritual jujitsu is a superlative creative act. It means that the question is wrong. It means that everything you thought you knew was false.

Quests on Society

There are 6 Quests. Each Quest has tools to Explore, Reflect and take action. Select one that interests you and get started!

Artificial Intelligence

What is artificial intelligence? Will it be able to think and feel? Can it replace human beings?
Can it assist in things of real importance?

Visionary Cities

What is the most you can imagine for your community?

Travel (and Experience)

Are experiences more than a distraction? Can travel be more than the search for experience and enjoyment? How can we stop contributing to mass tourism? Can we do something significant on our travels?

Poverty

How can we neglect our own brothers and sisters so badly? Can we re-estabish our true humanity? Can we grasp the poverty in the eyes of a single person?

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Society

We flounder in a sea of superficiality. Our passivity binds us to the existing order. We sought happiness, but received vacuity. An insight became a policy. A position was assumed, a relationship was defined. A dream turned into a bureaucracy.

Explore

We have ceased to be shocked by the breakdown in moral inhibitions. Society

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Reflect

What are the principles of modern society?

Reflect on Society: What are the principles of modern society?

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What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?

What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?

What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?

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Challenge

Exquisite sensitivity and incomparable tenderness.

Society Challenge

What our civilization needs today. . .is the cultivation of an exquisite sensitivity and an incomparable tenderness…Unnamable horrors have paraded before us and worse evils threaten because we have been unable to wipe the blank stare of indifference from our stony tearless faces. (Lewis Mumford)

“Our victories have come to resemble defeats. In spite of our triumphs, we have fallen victims to the work of our hands; it is as if the forces we had conquered have conquered us.” Abraham Heschel

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Action

Create Visionary Society

Society Action: Create Visionary Society