Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:38:04 JST Jesse

   Is it even possible to have an organization like Mozilla or Automattic that won’t let us all down?

   • Embed this notice
     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:38:04 JST Paul Cantrell

     in reply to

     @misc
     I sometimes find it helpful to think about organizations like this not as being pillars or foundations but rather as being like the fruiting body of a mycelium: briefly glorious, quickly rotting, to be reformed again elsewhere when conditions are good.

   • Embed this notice
     that one JNL (jordinn@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:51:45 JST that one JNL

     in reply to

     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @misc

     Black Humanist theologian Anthony Pinn makes this the basis of his work. We create spaces for meaningful liberation- "spaces for the greater practice of freedom," which are real and life-bettering and which INEVITABLY collapse. And, even while they are collapsing, others form. Pinn posits that our ethical and meaning-making work throughout our lives is thus helping to create these practice spaces, even knowing that sometimes WE will fail, and that eventually THEY will, too.

   • Embed this notice
     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:52:25 JST Paul Cantrell

     in reply to

     • that one JNL

     @jordinn @misc Strong vibes of Albert Camus’s Myth of Sisyphus (in the best ways)