What's funny is its not even representative of western culture. I'm in Nashville, and like with many intellectual pursuits the middle of the US is often overlooked. It's more of an ideological likeness though, I suspect. Movements shrink up and tend not to venture too far away ideologically. That's how these NGOs work. They need coherence. Not sure how to fix that, but this is why I don't apply to a lot of things unless I know the leaders personally. You have a snowballs chance in hell if you don't align perfectly with their goals.
I second this! Based in Salt Lake City it’s wild to see so much coverage of what is going on in San Francisco and New York when that’s not the experience of the rest of the country. It was particularly stark during the pandemic, when all of the journalists based in New York were reporting on an experience no one in our state was facing. We could use diversity of coverage!
I’m trying to rectify this though by focusing on community building other progress thinkers where I live, rather than always trying to get out to SF.
I empathize with the "screaming into your native void" problem completely! The difference in community and engagement was night and day when i switched to English (and i'm a very small writer!).
It's such a shame that language-specific circles are so hard to find on the internet (i blame the algorithms of course). It's half a joke, but also half true: when all the platforms are built in the usa, and the algorithms are trained first and foremost on english content, the other languages suffer. And then it's a numbers game: from what i remember, there's about 300 million people speaking French in the whole world, and that's less than the population of the USA alone!
All this to say: i'm glad you're trying to change things, and to propagate those ideas of progress to a wider audience. And i'll happily sign up to whatever French newsletter you end up writing :))
One thing I've seen some early success with is encouraging others to run with the same idea, but from a different starting point. That kicks the alignment can down the road which is fine IMO – universal elements of progress will fall out of the mix later on. Also gives other centers much more ownership over the project and they can contextualize it to their locale. Critical aspect is not selling the vision you already have, but sparking an adjacent one
You're undoubtedly correct to push for polycentrism. Considering the externalities of past progress became universal concerns (pandemics, climate, waste, pollution), it's wise to assume that they will do the same for future vectors of progress.
What's funny is its not even representative of western culture. I'm in Nashville, and like with many intellectual pursuits the middle of the US is often overlooked. It's more of an ideological likeness though, I suspect. Movements shrink up and tend not to venture too far away ideologically. That's how these NGOs work. They need coherence. Not sure how to fix that, but this is why I don't apply to a lot of things unless I know the leaders personally. You have a snowballs chance in hell if you don't align perfectly with their goals.
I second this! Based in Salt Lake City it’s wild to see so much coverage of what is going on in San Francisco and New York when that’s not the experience of the rest of the country. It was particularly stark during the pandemic, when all of the journalists based in New York were reporting on an experience no one in our state was facing. We could use diversity of coverage!
I’m trying to rectify this though by focusing on community building other progress thinkers where I live, rather than always trying to get out to SF.
I empathize with the "screaming into your native void" problem completely! The difference in community and engagement was night and day when i switched to English (and i'm a very small writer!).
It's such a shame that language-specific circles are so hard to find on the internet (i blame the algorithms of course). It's half a joke, but also half true: when all the platforms are built in the usa, and the algorithms are trained first and foremost on english content, the other languages suffer. And then it's a numbers game: from what i remember, there's about 300 million people speaking French in the whole world, and that's less than the population of the USA alone!
All this to say: i'm glad you're trying to change things, and to propagate those ideas of progress to a wider audience. And i'll happily sign up to whatever French newsletter you end up writing :))
One thing I've seen some early success with is encouraging others to run with the same idea, but from a different starting point. That kicks the alignment can down the road which is fine IMO – universal elements of progress will fall out of the mix later on. Also gives other centers much more ownership over the project and they can contextualize it to their locale. Critical aspect is not selling the vision you already have, but sparking an adjacent one
You're undoubtedly correct to push for polycentrism. Considering the externalities of past progress became universal concerns (pandemics, climate, waste, pollution), it's wise to assume that they will do the same for future vectors of progress.