collective agency

created 2021-11-26 · edited 2021-11-26 · open in Roam

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collective agency
- > It’s not that agency is one thing at base, like one type of matter. It’s that part of the nature of agency is inter-coordination with other processes; and understanding them as agentic is useful to this end: “I will; you will; what might we will together?”
  - a whole thread by Paul

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1:11 - 6:44 - How do you maximize agency in your life and the lives of your loved ones? What is agency? cooperation & defection aren't as obvious as they might seem (they depend on frame) IFS collective agency untangle social technology is more of a bottleneck than material technology adulthood land value tax two people adjusting behavior based on each other leading to multiple stable attractors doing community well list of common schemas learned in school

collective agency
- Learning to Walk Together: Small Steps towards the We of Us
  - > "Where are the We archetypes that are similar to the personal ones? Where might we find the We archetype for the hero, rebel, sage, ruler, caregiver, lover?"