😲!
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
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
Having migrated from the Pacific to Europe I reckon:
🌙 is common in the South
☀ is common in the North
🌙 is common in the South
☀ is common in the North
🌙 is oral culture
☀ 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 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 what I've seen of Indigenous cultures
☀ is more like how colonisers work (constitutions, contracts, deeds, ledgers)
☀ is more like how colonisers work (constitutions, contracts, deeds, ledgers)
🌙 ☀ people are attracted to my work because I know how to do both and the translation is interesting
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)
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)
🌙 our sociobiological inheritance
☀ how states work
☀ how states work
🌙 is energising and juicy and fun
☀ is dull and dry and clumsy
☀ is dull and dry and clumsy
🌙 ☀ are not obviously masculine or feminine, both of them are both and neither
Disclaimer: I DON'T HAVE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE so don't take my word for it. I maybe have useful misconceptions from living adjacent with Indigenous people and reading Indigenous authors.
I regret using moon and sun instead of 🐾 and 🧠
Correlates to John Shotter's
🌙 withness
☀ aboutness
🌙 withness
☀ aboutness
🌙 Behaviours are harder to fake than ☀ values, so they're a much better filter for a group membrane. Eg
🌙 "We have open books and livestream our meetings"
☀ "We are open and inclusive"
🌙 "We have open books and livestream our meetings"
☀ "We are open and inclusive"
🌙 concrete
☀️ abstract
☀️ abstract
of course I am not anti abstraction, this thread is ultra abstract. but when it comes to group formation work, people in the North seem to be way overbalanced on the abstract over the concrete
