The previous
post was about how the Internet supports us in directing our own fulfillment with greater immediacy. This is happening because of greater self-awareness, and
the Internet bringing more people together. This is happening at the same time that lone leadership has entered
into voluntary decline.
Lone leadership is in decline. But that does not mean our impulses to command and control others has
declined in the least.
To compensate
for ineffective leadership, as a society we’ve entered into an elder-ful era. The idea of the
role of elder is from indigenous cultures to distinguish anyone who voluntarily
dedicates his or her life to taking care of the greater good. These days,
I’ve noticed elders 18-years of age or younger. Look at what happened to Craig Kielburger when he was 12-year old in April 1995! http://www.freethechildren.com/aboutus/history/
I have experienced aspects
of the Occupy movement taking responsibility for the greater good. This is happening with varying degrees of
self-awareness. Some of us have noted our urge to shadow-box, to thrash
and strike out at aspects of life we despise. We don`t admit that
whatever we’re fighting set up camp inside us long ago.
It’s on the
record that the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring were spurred on in part
because of tools for organizing made readily available on the Internet. We conduct the details of coordination for
mutual fulfillment using both on-line tools, and those potential little-spies-in-your-pocket,
we lovingly call cellphones.
Thank you
social media. And thank you open source software.
Coordination
for mutual fulfillment tends to be carried out locally, in and among neighbourhoods. Public spaces are where you’ll find those soul pools and
nutrient rich spawning grounds where the elders swim. Neighbourhoods are
now vessels where projects wriggle and interweave, where adaptations arise from
the cross-fertilization among notions. Social adaptations hatch in local
places. These are challenged, chased around, and later dismissed before becoming
strong enough to find their way into the mainstream.
There’s no way
of knowing what comes next from the shallow waters where social adaptations
emerge. Some new ways of doing things have inherent capacities to
grow and plunge straight down because they are designed to trawl through the
depths of our collected realities. These surpass the role of lone leadership.
Drawing on what is deep within us has always been the role of muse.
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