This isn't just a brilliant piece, it's a fucking brilliant piece.
Here in the UK, The Green Party is seeing a huge surge in support, as it proposes a better system. Their latest video aligns incredibly well with what you are saying - and is well worth a watch.
These are very important ideas, Kasper. I see this in education, as many begin to ask, what is education for? I would add, together with your excellent seven points for staying grounded, that it is important to stay, literally, grounded- connected to the more than human world, finding belonging there, in the web of Life, first and foremost. Thank you for this discussion!
I'm grateful for this wonderfully helpful writing: I resonate so deeply, and know plenty of others who share the struggle of trying to live between two worlds.
This is a very thoughtful piece, and I particularly appreciated the idea that “expertise alone can no longer serve as the moral architecture of belonging.” Indeed. I also agree that the task is not to win a narrative. However, trying to tell a “truer” social story may also fall short.
Perhaps this moment asks us to interpret the world differently, to recognize that all stories are partial: powerful tools, but ultimately limited. Every story carries a belief system, a desired state, and an assumption about what drives change. In that sense, all stories are incomplete, shaped by agents with partial knowledge. The challenge, then, may be to live with multiple stories without needing to resolve them into a single “truth.”
Even more importantly, what about listening to stories rather than telling them? When you write that “the old one is breaking down, and the new one has not yet fully arrived,” I wonder if another perspective is missing. From where I stand, a new story has been present for 250 years, emerging repeatedly, across contexts, whenever people act on it. What’s different is that its leaders are often not those we typically recognize as such.
Perhaps this moment is less about telling or winning, and more about listening, learning, and letting go, allowing space for what is already here to become visible.
Thank you for all you are doing and offering. We all need more hope and a new roadmap to replace the old one that *needs* to be based on something better aligned with *true* democracy because the one we knew was never truly based on equality.
"Why is this system producing failure at scale?” is perhaps the most important/urgent question rn. That question is going to live rent-free in my mind for a long time.
We are living in the time of monsters and we must choose our path to a new future. Thank you for the clarity and the seven ways to help us get through this.
This isn't just a brilliant piece, it's a fucking brilliant piece.
Here in the UK, The Green Party is seeing a huge surge in support, as it proposes a better system. Their latest video aligns incredibly well with what you are saying - and is well worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/bF_a_w7Dozo?si=mGAHmRr6mxeDrKII
Came here to say the same 🙌🙌🙌👌👌
These are very important ideas, Kasper. I see this in education, as many begin to ask, what is education for? I would add, together with your excellent seven points for staying grounded, that it is important to stay, literally, grounded- connected to the more than human world, finding belonging there, in the web of Life, first and foremost. Thank you for this discussion!
I really deeply love these ideas you have shared here and would enjoy more conversation on the topic.
So happy you like it.
I'm grateful for this wonderfully helpful writing: I resonate so deeply, and know plenty of others who share the struggle of trying to live between two worlds.
Thank you.
This is a very thoughtful piece, and I particularly appreciated the idea that “expertise alone can no longer serve as the moral architecture of belonging.” Indeed. I also agree that the task is not to win a narrative. However, trying to tell a “truer” social story may also fall short.
Perhaps this moment asks us to interpret the world differently, to recognize that all stories are partial: powerful tools, but ultimately limited. Every story carries a belief system, a desired state, and an assumption about what drives change. In that sense, all stories are incomplete, shaped by agents with partial knowledge. The challenge, then, may be to live with multiple stories without needing to resolve them into a single “truth.”
Even more importantly, what about listening to stories rather than telling them? When you write that “the old one is breaking down, and the new one has not yet fully arrived,” I wonder if another perspective is missing. From where I stand, a new story has been present for 250 years, emerging repeatedly, across contexts, whenever people act on it. What’s different is that its leaders are often not those we typically recognize as such.
Perhaps this moment is less about telling or winning, and more about listening, learning, and letting go, allowing space for what is already here to become visible.
Thank you for all you are doing and offering. We all need more hope and a new roadmap to replace the old one that *needs* to be based on something better aligned with *true* democracy because the one we knew was never truly based on equality.
"Why is this system producing failure at scale?” is perhaps the most important/urgent question rn. That question is going to live rent-free in my mind for a long time.
We are living in the time of monsters and we must choose our path to a new future. Thank you for the clarity and the seven ways to help us get through this.