Today, values of connection are increasingly entering popular culture, where in this commercial, these values are being used to promote a TV service. This is already a step forward from the past, when individualistic values of “me being better, more popular, stronger, faster, richer than others” would mostly permeate advertisements. Hopefully, this is a step toward the near future when we will promote values of connection themselves, not in order to promote products or services, but to promote the values themselves, so that they would increasingly permeate society and human...
A lot of presuppositions about ideas is that they come to individuals in their head. It’s a very individualistic way of thinking. But actually, most ideas come through their being shared, being developed together often over long periods of time. So I think the roots of most culture and creativity are to do with interconnectedness, and that process of collaboration and sharing. Therefore, one way of thinking about it is: Do you see yourself as an ingredient in other people’s solutions? So actually, what you’ve got becomes much more valuable when you can connect it to other things that other people have got.” –Charles Leadbetter, author of We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity, and former adviser to British Prime Minister Tony...
http://vimeo.com/photogl/the-trouble-with-being-human-these-days As our survival has been collectivized, we need to be good to each other if we want to survive.” –Zygmunt Bauman,...
As long as you think that nature is ‘out there,’ then you have the basic separation that allows you to see the environment as ‘other’ and people as distinct from that, and that separation of ‘self’ from ‘nature’ is really what white man brought to civilization. That is the disease, the deep, deep wound that will be healed one way or the other in the decades to come.” –Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur and...