Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

This content was posted on  13 May 21  by   Douglas Rushkoff  on  Facebook Page
Revolutionaries act as if they are destroying the old and starting something new. More often …

Revolutionaries act as if they are destroying the old and starting something new. More often than not, however, these revolutions look more like Ferris wheels: the only thing that’s truly revolving is the cast of characters at the top. The structure remains the same. So the digital revolution — however purely conceived — ultimately brought us a new crew of mostly male, white, libertarian technologists, who believed they were uniquely suited to create a set of universal rules for humans. But those rules — the rules of internet startups and venture capitalism — were really just the same old rules as before. And they supported the same sorts of inequalities, institutions, and cultural values.

A renaissance, on the other hand, is a retrieval of the old. Unlike a revolution, it makes no claim on the new. A renaissance is, as the word suggests, a rebirth of old ideas in a new context. That may sound less radical than revolutionary upheaval, but it offers a better way to advance our deepest human values.

Read more from “Renaissance Now!” from Medium’s weekly Team Human serialization:

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How we can trade a mere digital revolution for a truly dimensional shift


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