Tools for Increasing Interdependence and Decentralization
Study Groups/Learning Community
This one seems so simple and old school, but having community to learn with is actually really crucial for human development. It means we learn to see ideas, not just through our own singular and limited perspectives, but to see how different experiences create different ways of thinking about things, of comprehending and applying ideas.
Loretta Ross teaches us that, āWhen people think the same idea and move in the same direction, thatās a cult. When people think many different ideas and move in one direction,
thatās a movement.ā...
The more people who grow understanding and vision together, the more people who will feel at home in the resulting experiments. Right now we are living inside the results of other peoplesā imaginationsāpeople who couldnāt imagine Black people being free, fat girls being sexy, disabled people being leaders. People who could only imagine their own power and dominance. When more people imagine together, and then step from imagining into thinking through the structures and protocols of a society together, then more needs are attended to. Responding to common text is a great way to do this. And it doesnāt have to be just a reading groupāit can be a group that watches films, listens to music, or compares experiments in changing movement practices.