Fireside Chat: Alone in a Room Full of Digital Friends: The Crisis of Belonging

WHO: This online event is for people who want to learn about how to find real connection in a low touch high tech world. 

WHAT: This is the fourth of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this fourth session we will discuss how difficult it can be to find meaningful connection in the digital era and why community is more important now than ever. Participants will get a chance to hear about how WildSeed’s virtual village seeks to be a soft place to land and find community for those seeking refuge from the chaos. 

WHY: 

We believe that the central cause of our poly crises is that we have a contradiction between our overemphasis of building wealth as a society and  our social, emotional and spiritual underdevelopment. This contradiction gives rise to three crises: belonging, social reproduction and unacknowledged history. The crisis of belonging is based on how we have dived into different “genres of human” of unequal worth. These genres lead us to hide our true selves behind mask that complicate the vulnerability that true connection requires. Digital avatars and rage tuned algorithms make this even more difficult. 

SPEAKERS:

TBD 

WILDSEED SOCIETY

The WildSeed Society is a political, spiritual and economic community that is inviting people to build a 21st century Underground Railroad together. We are building a series of refuges from the current exploitative world to new worlds where we all get to belong and be cared for - by focusing on Spiritual Liberation, Social Transformation and Economic Revolution. We seek to experiment and prototype our way into a new way of life - in community and in right relationship with the land.

The WildSeed Society is stewarded by a collective of movement veterans, spiritual teachers, and organizational development nerds. Many of the instigators of the collective were involved in the Black Lives Matter movement before starting WildSeed. It is inspired by the vision of futurist Octavia Butler of gifted misfits finding community together before transforming the world.

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