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Two deep needs and a cure, facilitated by a simple mechanism, in an open system.
Perhaps what we’ve been doing (with school/work/life) has been more about temporary efficiency than sustainability. Perhaps that’s why we seem to perpetuate a band-aid mindset, with an insatiated/ongoing need for motivation. The center of the problem is that none of them knew the center of the problem. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Imagine we dig deeper, to a natural energy. An energy that restores/revives itself, in 7 billion ways, every day.
Many people are re-imagining public education in incredibly cool ways. The only problem is that those ways aren’t accessible to everyone right now. Perhaps a (temporary/fabricated) synchronicity can help to hasten equity. (everyone getting a go everyday) And so, a mechanism to help us get a good start at modeling another way, in sync, would have to be simple enough so that 7 billion people could use/access it now. One that would require no prep, no training, very little policy. [If need be we could channel/initiate this mechanism via a redefinition of public education. ie: upcycling ed resources. Repurposing time/money/people we currently spend on proving things, on classroom management... ]
If we get the dance right, especially initially, we could turn this on a dime.
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Perhaps we haven’t yet experimented in this ecosystem (entire city – entire day), because we fear chaos/laziness. Perhaps that fear has been legit. Perhaps it hasn’t been possible to let people follow their whimsy, en masse. Perhaps new technology can help us facilitate everyone’s whimsy/curiosity/aliveness at once, in sync, so that we can get to a more natural state of being. Perhaps we and fade-out techs/systems that are no longer of benefit.
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