Today I maybe noticed a major distinction in how people "do groups":
🌙 start with land + people + practices (behaviour, experiments, verbs)
OR
☀️ start with ideas + vision + principles (values, mission, nouns)
/thread
🌙 is common in the South
☀ is common in the North
☀ is literate culture
(📖 read Orality & Literacy by W J Ong to understand how this changes how we think and what social structures we invent)
☀ is more like how colonisers work (constitutions, contracts, deeds, ledgers)
I'm learning to write in an "oral" way (massively inspired by Tyson Yunkaporta who is an absolute master)
(I think this is also why I admire @BayoAkomolafe)
☀ how states work
☀ is dull and dry and clumsy
🌙 withness
☀ aboutness
🌙 "We have open books and livestream our meetings"
☀ "We are open and inclusive"
☀️ abstract