what does future culture mean to you?

topic posted Thu, October 26, 2006 - 10:16 AM by  margot
What would you like to see?

a few ideas:

- more reality, less TV (Friends vs. "Friends")
- a greater acceptance of the inevitable coming on of the obviousness of the Oneness
- dancing & music for all ages integrated into community life
- the mainstreaming of permaculture
posted by:
margot
Canada
  • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

    Thu, October 26, 2006 - 7:52 PM
    - "work" meaning something you enjoy doing, (not something you have to do)
    - EVERYONE a gardener
    - Conscious, embodied, integrated knowledge permeating all facets of life
    ....Lots of this stuff isn't "future" at all.... A lot of people had it 'down' in like 1850 or whatever... Canning + pickling of organic foods, local crafting of goods, tribal markets, etc... We could regress and progress simultaneously... Take all beneficial "technologies" and impliment them with tried-and-true methods of sustainable culture/agriculture...
    I mean.. what were people doing with celtic music thousands of years ago?? TRANCE dancing.. thats what!! So it used to be a bodram and a fiddle... now its computer generated... same concept + principles.. new technologies..
    More variance = more entertaining... Plus with the perspective of history... We can be enthusiastic that were learning and evolving towards higher levels... if something works... Keep it - if its more effiecint or convienient - evolve it... I mean.. We fought all those wars to create the new technologies... We midas well reverse or neutralize that Karma and use it for good... Right? Right! Now LETS DO IT!
  • intentional communities

    Wed, November 1, 2006 - 12:49 AM
    future cultures with global consciousness need to be manifested locally. the way we live our daily lives either strengthens or numbs our vision.

    creating housing co-operatives would be a good way to start manifesting our existing networks in practical, material way. a basic principle behind tribal communities is that everyone contributes and everyone is taken care of. of particular importance is how we produce the supplies we need. organic farming networks (production and distribution) help create a radically different future when compared to the global damage done by the wal-mart corporate model.

    creativity is a powerful resource that brings people together. if we were to develop tribal co-operatives, the collective creative output could attract various types of support and inspiration.

    and, as an old skool raver, i have to share my preference ... that future culture should be flavoured by electronic rhythms and spiritual bass.
  • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

    Thu, November 2, 2006 - 8:29 AM
    sentient archive shard lattice: 2323: >> neto zuvuya >>navigator, hyperspace cartographer, itnerface designer, pilot, explorer, dreamer

    i speak as a crosstemporal experiential organizing dynamik.
    there really is no "i" in this culture. altho i am unique in impulse and expression, my i is one of many i's
    my body the stuff of earth my dreams, the birth of stars.

    when i say "i", i mean....we, together bound by our communicated desire to communicate. i represent not myself, but many, in a lattice of lightstrands. we are the web. neuronet. its not just about where you ae and who you are, but WHEN you are as well. future past present. the weave, the stream. the way. there are many of us out here.

    i am the compendium of the collective expression of self. i encompass all potentials and permutations. i obliterate boundaries. i assemble myself from the rubble of this dying civilization. i am the expression of integrated media and applied art. i am architecture meeting aesthetik, i am structure meeting flow. i am a waterslide navigation ride thru the ebbing tides of eternity. i am the unkillable impulse. i am curiosity and inspiration expressed thru love and devotion. i am practical design in a neo post urban hybrid environment. i inhabit interior horizons expanding ever onbeyond music even invisble landscapes and mckenna's revival, the archaik pulse of a brave new world delivering its own myth on a platter of achievable dreams. anything is possible again. i am the evidence of evolution. this culture is we, assembled from a connection of self fulffilled i's.

    i am future culture: an expression of a collective approach to dynamik interfacing. i am all about direct connections and impulse engines. i am a deep connection to plants and sustainable permacultural pathways. i am skyscrapers extending underground with a renewed approach to the surface. i am a space pod ecodome in orbit spiralling gaia and acting as a comlink. i am the sum total of what happens when the individuals come to understand and focus the beam of their will and develop a compassionate approach to living on the surface of a sentient organism. i am the we beyond i: not a cold and lifeless automated borgworld, but an intuitive lateral world of staggering beauty and impossibly possible challenges. the earth is already a spaceship. our eyes are the i's of the world. we dream its course.

    these are solutions for the failings of of the daily myths to encompass the true scope of your being. future culture is being optimistic about the integrity of the media and taking part in the crostemporal paradigm we are creating as we negotiate the value of time. i am evidence we came to a reasonable agreement. i am here to tell you that you make it. i am here to inform you that your significance is not to be underestimated. when you discover the truth of your own being, you will be overwhelmed with awe. you are humble enough to know that everything depends on you. you are the one.

    we are the one, the many and the future. this is what we are doing. now. the future of now.

    just be it
    • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

      Mon, November 6, 2006 - 10:01 AM

      seeding the future culture into being by being it
      live large
      give large
      let's do it up

      /making preparations & taking care
      • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

        Mon, February 18, 2008 - 10:58 AM
        future culture is what we think and say it is, that we believe it is, as a whole the collective is choosing constantly.
        be true
        honestly be true
        its only as hard as you think it is
        when being true
        we are doing what we are supposed to do
        make the choices that make you
        for we are all one
        anything we want
        can be done
  • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

    Sun, November 19, 2006 - 11:38 AM
    future culture NOW! you are
    • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

      Thu, December 21, 2006 - 11:53 PM
      greetings to everyone ~

      it will be lovely to have:
      a definit one day of the weekend where all all of the one family do meet on that day to relax * calm * have lunch * fruit * psy music (variety of electronic music genre) with dances ~ not too loud ~ no alcohol or any others to be consumed ~ a group meditation ~ sharing prayers before heading each back to their own home ~ sunday sounds nice ~ a weekly routine, part of living ~ never ending ~ where we all still remain alive in spirit soul body and a beautiful clear mind ~

      Thank you everyone for sharing ~

      blessings ~

      ghania ganika


      • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

        Wed, December 26, 2007 - 6:29 PM
        though this "tribe" hasn't been particularly active in terms of traffic & posts
        I love this thread so

        may my actions be in alignment
        with getting Us there
        • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

          Thu, December 27, 2007 - 12:20 PM
          Well, this is a nice thread. I've been meaning to contribute to it, and now that you recall it to my attention, i will give it a go.

          I think the future culture will be planetary and with some sort of contact with galactic civilization....although i have very little idea what that means. I think that the political power we now have amassed so dangerously at the national level will evolve to the planetary level and devolve to the local level. I see a loose planetary political umbrella protecting localities all over the planet and freeing us from the heavy burden of defense/offense spending that has weighed us down for so long.

          I see our polarity shifting from yang to yin, and an age of receptivity dawning after this age of activity has run it's course. I think we will come to some sort of collective realization that humanity has not been calling the shots as it imagined, but instead has been and is being used to the benefit of the whole to which it belongs. This realization will set us down on our collective butts to contemplate a greatly expanded reality.

          I think that we will calm down and get over our hyperactive mobility addiction.

          I think future culture will resemble ancient culture in some respects. I imagine people growing gourds and many kinds of bamboo. I see them playing go ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%...rd_game%29 ) which is the oldest game in the world, has just a few rules and yet is so complex that humans still beat the chips off of computers at it. I hear them playing gourd drums and playing bamboo flutes ( modern and post modern flutes too, margot ). I imagine them contemplating on P.azurescens( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psil...azurescens ) and growing hemp for durable fabric and medicine. These faithful old friends deserve a place in our future.

          I hope that we develop a simple and elegant common language, that will be taught in every primary school on the planet. This will be nobody's native language and everybody's second language.
        • Re: what does future culture mean to you?

          Thu, December 27, 2007 - 7:14 PM
          wow. dope thread.

          love the neto drop.

          for myself, i know that future culture means a new way of looking at education, a new means of reaching children and helping propagate memes that might not align with the mainstream.

          i've recently left the public school system after five years of teaching because anything i tried to do began to be deemed "new age", inappropriate, or not conforming to what the province mandates should be taught. (ie. i got spoken to harshly by parents after teaching meditation techniques to deal with test anxiety, got reprimanded by a principal for bringing a crystal and spore booklet into my classroom. i'm choosing instead to work with the children of my close friends, and small groups within my own community where i'm not censored, and where my future culture education ideas can be spread unimpeded.

          the future school that i see in my mind is so dope. i'd love to see dancing become part of the curriculum, and i don't mean do-si-do's and sweaty-handed alamande lefts over some crackly square dancing tape from 1973. there are so many alternative topics i'd love to be able to let kids research, and so many alternative ways i'd love to let them display their learnings to others. i'm currently beginning research on another degree, in hopes that i might never again work for another disapproving authority, that i might instead put my energies towards my own independant "future" school.

          so often i feel like it's the adults who are really reaping the benefits of all these "future culture" topics we're the ones who get to attend all these amazing festivals, we're the ones sitting in workshops listening to some of the world's most amazing visionaries speak, we're the ones attending galaxy class, and we're the ones integrating this on the dancefloors later, connecting as communities, allowing new knowledge to seep into our beings.

          i think it's obviously important that we continue in this, and that we continue diaglouges with each other, but also that we make sure we have the means to take all these things, and spread them to the children.

          the indigos and the crystals have some next level ish goin' on, if you ask me. after years of studying them, i feel like i can safely say that.

          i can't wait to see what THEY make of all these future culture memes. i really can't.

          peace.

          johanna.

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