More Life: the prime directive
boiling the movement, for better and worse, down to a catchphrase
Push me to boil down the movement to one ethos, one raison d’être, one catchphrase, and it’s this:
More life.
More abundant life.
More kinds of life.
More diversity of life.
More ways to understand life.
More perspectives, more minds, more kinds of minds, more sensory apparata, more sense-making paradigms.
More lenses.
More beauty, more kinds of beauty, more intelligences.
More exuberant experiment, beyond my and my culture’s comprehension or comfort.
Life unbeholden to utility.
Life beyond human instrumentability.
Our human systems, human structures (both infra- and super-) should be built to nurture, to nest within, to engender, foster, cultivate, to rejoice with
More.
I had a conversation last week with someone who said that they believe money is sentient and I can't stop thinking about it.