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The analogy that we've been given, By whom? and the one we collectively repeat is the titanic and the iceberg. Repeat it often enough and people convince themselves that it'sthe future is inevitable.
The analogy that fits better and that my brain came up with is a tsunami. Writers and journalists were warning us about all the negative changes that were coming.
Bob and Nancy are sitting on a beach enjoying their much needed vacation. They read the warning, but decide that the tsunami of information is just fear mongering. Better to ridicule and gossip. The problem with many writers including those who wrote about negative changes was the lack of concrete advice.
Bob and Nancy decide to leave it to others, after all, what can they do? Every now and then media continues to warn, Bob and Nancy agree with the article, chat about it and do nothing. One can get off the beach in time. The tsunami appears. This time journalists are riding the big wave for clicks and financial gain with impending doom scenarios.
Experts and volunteers provide the solution, immense water gates go up, the flow of doom and gloom is stopped until the tsunami momentum is diminished. The future is not set in stone.
It suits our limited imagination (and our fears) to imagine stuff like that, tsunami, Titanic vs iceberg, whatever. It also serves as an excuse, after all these events are massive and unavoidable at least in the movies.
ReplyDeleteTransformation research uses the interim period, the period of upheaval, when you realise that the old is dying, but the new is not yet tangible. We simply cannot know exactly what the future will look like. But with every step forward, we can follow a clear compass, try things out, adapt, learn and move on. This is the evolutionary view of development, and we all play a part in it, even if it seems small at first.
Mhmm. The titanic sank. It's an image of hopelessness. It was being used everywhere and applied to everything that was wrong to manipulate. Where did it come from?
DeleteCodex: I use movie imagery because I'm a cinephile, a little lazy on the blog but people have common knowledge or recognize it.
DeleteTransformation research- thank you did not know it existed in
such detail.is it well established in Europe? It means something different in North Ametica
I give up on correcting spelling.
Codex above.
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