Just wanted to share a recent piece I published on Medium, critiquing Charles Eisenstein’s take on the pandemic.
… I argue that culture-making happens on micro-to-macro levels, and thought-leaders with an audience as large as Eisenstein have a proportionate responsibility to be more careful about how they communicate their ideas. To accelerate the changes we want to see, we need to craft the future through large and small decisions, even in such mundane ways as the structure of an essay.
You can read my critique here.
Building a better world doesn’t end with marches or riots, or even with policymaking and reform. Making the case for change requires so much more than shocking statistics and devastating video footage. In fact, I would say an incremental, materialist, and ultimately very capitalist approach is better suited to maintaining the status quo.
You can motivate people through fear and anger for only so long.
This work is going to be long and hard and frankly really boring - and so we must have fun doing it, and have a joyful and beautiful vision of the world to reach toward as well. And we must not give in to our capitalist brainwashing to minimize and dismiss that. Fantasize the future. Seduce each other with ideas.
Please comment with your gorgeous, outrageous ideas for a world we can co-create.
And share with us all links to writers and other creators who lead with beautiful visions and seductive sentences…