An Emerging Third Option - Reclaiming Democracy From Dark Money & Dark Tech

Summary

Argues that systemic change requires upgrading underlying operating systems by cultivating conditions of ‘social soil’ – the less visible inner conditions of awareness and relationships. Proposes shift toward building collective capacity for bottom-up cross-sector innovation and transformation, offering three upgrades, seven practices, and three pathways to cultivate social soil.

Rationale

His ‘social soil’ helped shape our thinking about the conditions beneath systems, though we’re warier of rebooting an “operating system”: dispositions aren’t software we can simply upgrade.