Learn to Dance
It means learning to use the Internet more as a dancefloor than a one-way platform to shout into the ether.
This is part of our session for the online day at Global Donut Days 2024. Please register here or to view recordings of any of the sessions.
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Because we face such huge problems, we decided that our best strategy at this stage was to contribute towards improving the public discourse that is at best siloed, and at worst fed by mainstream media dramas, populist politicians, and adversarial political lobbying.
To do that we agreed to create articles and conversations about current issues in a better, more nuanced way and show how we could address many issues through a Doughnut Economics framework.
While the internet supplies the tools, it means us learning the skills and developing the model.
It means learning to use the Internet more as a dancefloor than a one-way platform to shout into the ether.
So our first project was:
1. For each of us to set up our public profiles on DEAL and Substack
2. Get familiar with Substack by publishing something, read each other’s posts, and make comments
A big part of this was showing how the Internet enables a distributed model of publishing in which each of us can maintain our production as our own asset rather than simply giving away or selling our labour to a central organisation.
The connections we create between these posts with links and comments is part of the dance. That’s an ongoing negotiation that requires generosity and reciprocity which in turn increases the value and opportunity for everyone.
It’s the abundance rather than extractive mindset.
And these were the outcomes:
· we created signposts to the group
· we showed our level of commitment
· we got to know each other better
· we built trust and relationships within the group
· we all learned more about Doughnut Economics