Blessed Unrest

When I saw this, I thought there might just be hope for us afterall...



It is my belief that we are part of a movement that is greater and deeper and broader than we ourselves know or can know…. This unnamed movement is the most diverse movement the world has ever seen. The very word ‘movement’, I think, is too small to describe it. No one started this worldview. No one is in charge of it. There is no orthodoxy. It is global, classless, unquenchable, and tireless. The shared understanding is arriving spontaneously from different economic sectors, cultures, regions, and cohorts. It is growing and spreading worldwide, with no exception…. This is fundamentally a civil rights movement, a human rights movement; this is a democracy movement. It is the coming world…. So it is up to us to decide how will we be, who will we be; this is what it is we’re building: the capacity to respond. It is about possibilities and solutions. Human kind knows what to do.

So after centuries of ungoverned and undisciplined innovation, designing because we can, we are beginning to awaken to the reality in which we find ourselves: our own humanness is increasingly subjugated by technological proliferation. In effect, our very mindsets have been shifting in response to this value inversion whereby production values supersede human values, and it is this inversion that has led to the creation of technology that is disempowering us as a species.