The best way to incubate the future is not to tinker with humanity at a civilization scale. It’s in a village designed explicitly to be a lab of experimentation for new tools, rituals, + ways of being
This doesn't really say it clearly, but it sounds like what's being proposed is a weeklong (or so) gathering, almost like a festival but without the focus on partying. I feel like I've experienced this kind of temporary village via primitive skills gatherings. Of course there is a focus on learning and practicing various "primitive" skills there, but overall they are exactly what the author is describing, just lower tech.
I remember the first time I went to one. It was the first time in my life that I truly felt what it was like to be part of a tribe. We cooked and ate food together, watched each other's children, worked on projects together, and hung out together around the fire. It filled a need for community that I'd always had, a void that had never been filled.
Unfortunately, while such gatherings are very effective at trying out a new way of living, and giving people a taste of what could be, their temporary nature is itself a massive limitation. In my experience the biggest challenge is not in envisioning and practicing different ways of living, but in finding a way to bridge ANY of that with our daily lives in modern society.
Stunning. Leen sent me your way, and I am devouring your writing. Let's make a pop-up village happen this year. Some of my colleagues are at Prospera for the Vitalia colive and I'll be at digitalia.
Looking forward to the experimentation decade with popup villages at the forefront of innovation😎
This doesn't really say it clearly, but it sounds like what's being proposed is a weeklong (or so) gathering, almost like a festival but without the focus on partying. I feel like I've experienced this kind of temporary village via primitive skills gatherings. Of course there is a focus on learning and practicing various "primitive" skills there, but overall they are exactly what the author is describing, just lower tech.
I remember the first time I went to one. It was the first time in my life that I truly felt what it was like to be part of a tribe. We cooked and ate food together, watched each other's children, worked on projects together, and hung out together around the fire. It filled a need for community that I'd always had, a void that had never been filled.
Unfortunately, while such gatherings are very effective at trying out a new way of living, and giving people a taste of what could be, their temporary nature is itself a massive limitation. In my experience the biggest challenge is not in envisioning and practicing different ways of living, but in finding a way to bridge ANY of that with our daily lives in modern society.
Stunning. Leen sent me your way, and I am devouring your writing. Let's make a pop-up village happen this year. Some of my colleagues are at Prospera for the Vitalia colive and I'll be at digitalia.
Great stuff. Much of the future will be birthed through pop-up villages!