For today, what will weigh heavily in the world?
8 bn “why are we playing these games with each other?” or
8 bn “its awkward” or
8 bn “i deserve better” or
8 bn “that’s kind of you” or
8 bn “you are so wrong on this” or
8 bn “you are right about this” or
8 bn “lets just ignore it” or
8 bn “what’s in it for me?” or
8 bn “how do i look”? or
8 bn “who am i really ???!!!!” or
8 bn “wish i had that !” or
8 bn “i can’t take it anymore” or
8 bn “i give up” or
8 bn “i can’t let that happen” or
8 bn “why don’t they get this simple thing?” or
8 bn “enough is enough” or
8 bn “let’s wait and watch” or
8 bn “ its now or never” or
8 bn “let me just focus and gather this or that as security for me and my family” or
8 bn “everything is ok or better than before, why can’t these doomsayers and pessimists not see? or
8 bn “science or technology or growth or a combination of these will solve the challenges, lets just keep doing our bit” or …
So, the question we began was, “For today, what will weigh heavily in the world?”. Or if we ask, “what of these and to what extent weighed heavily in the past? and how have they shaped the world we find ourselves in today?”. I believe if you patiently go through the above, you shall realize that most of these and many more or their variants pop up inside of us each passing day. And they have popped up in 100 bn humans who have passed this planet before us.
But what about them popping inside of us? Well! There is nuance to it.
It’s one thing to just pop and subside because we don’t do anything about it, or cannot do anything about it. It is another thing to not realize how they affect our other experiences (our current experience, our remembered experiences, our future expected experiences).
It’s another thing that the feelings and thinking around each of these affect each other:
feeling affecting thinking,
2. thinking affecting feeling,
3. feeling affecting other feeling,
4. thinking affecting other thinking
…all inside of us.
Sometimes we become aware of them. Sometimes we don’t.
Yet another thing that these feelings and thinking may be directly or indirectly embedded in what we say and what we do:
5. feeling affecting our saying,
6. saying affecting our feeling,
7. thinking affecting our saying,
8. saying affecting our thinking,
9. doing affecting our thinking,
10. thinking affecting our doing,
11. doing affecting our feeling,
12. feeling affecting our doing,
13. saying affecting our other saying,
14. doing affecting our other doing
These when brought to awareness are only the beginnings. A more deeper dive would excavate various inter-relationships between our #ThinkFeelSayDo paradigm.
Moreover, these could be inter-acting with rules-norms-incentives of the #PoliticalEconomicSocial spectrum. Sometimes these thinking or feeling could be merely some response or reaction to our assessment of the state of affairs (rules-norms-incentives, etc). Sometimes these could be shaping the assessment of the state of affairs. Sometimes when we act on these thinking and feelings, we subscribe to a certain state of affairs or the desired change we want to bring about.
Lets go a bit deeper into these. The rules-norms-incentives-values etc are desired by different groups in different ways and degree. Individual and or Groups contest them in #PoliticalEconomicSocial sphere. However, in the era of high inter-connectedness and inter-dependence, we may not be aware of the ways in which there could be difference in compatibility or incompatibility of one rule with another rule, or one rule with a norm, or an incentive with norm of some groups.
If we add to this already complex cocktail, the element of information explosion, content explosion, social signaling or broadcasting, pace of change, and sheer number of interacting parts in our civilization, we get what we call as “Today” which very few people are able to make sense of. And this floors the accelerator towards “borrowing someone else’s opinions or beliefs” or “not have time and upskilling to reflect on one’s own inner and outer conflicts”. This shoots up the potency of “weaponization” of ideas, speech, institutions, etc. And we may not be knowing in what ways we are moving our own self or our groups or civilization towards a better or dystopian future.
Welcome to Search Dialogue Action.
You must have related to some simple statements we began with (at the top). But as you read further, you must have realized that these seemingly simple statements (about thinking and feeling) have complex relationships with each other and the outer world.
At Search Dialogue Action, we want to bring about a twin move. A move towards nuancing. One in the direction of distilling them into simple relatable thing. On the other, seeing their web of relationships with various other things.
Welcome to Search Dialogue Action
For Better Understanding.
For Better Action.
For Avoiding Extinction.
Welcome to Search Dialogue Action.
Because there is hope.
Because there is human enterprise.
Because there are millions wanting a “different kind of change now”.
Because globally there is a strong undercurrent,
of thousands of our fellow humans doing their bit, their experiments of diagnosing the challenge and trying out new solutions.
Because there is also rise and rise of wisdom practices.
Because there are interdisciplinary or systemic framing of problem-solutions happening in various parts of the world.
Because we are standing on the shoulders of various past experiments in humanity.
Because we have tried binaries of may kinds in #PoliticalEconomicSocial spaces.
Because our own attempt in the last 8 years, of following 100+ thinkers, 100+ experimenters, 1200+ deep long conversations, thanking routine right of 190,000+ humans, self-awareness workshop for 300+ humans, 1000+ scribbles, 40+ interdisciplinary dialogue, 50+ courses to reskill ourselves, and 10,000 hours of meditations, GIVES US HOPE.
Welcome to Search Dialogue Action.