Trading Bunkers for Block Parties

Summary

Writer Felix de Rosen is tired of forecasts about collapse and AI. Prediction, like the colonial mindset, “stems from a desire to control rather than belong”, and feeds “the illusion that we are separate individuals”. Because social cohesion, not preparedness, gets people through disasters, his advice is to talk to your neighbours: “leave the bunkers behind, and start the block parties.”

Rationale

His advice, block parties over bunkers, is ours at street level: grow the everyday contexts where belonging gets lived before it’s told, rather than trying to predict and control.