Readings & Reflections
OCTOBER 2021
This month we will dive into: Who we are as human beings, How we are constructed, and How we might connect with others to coordinate, engage with equanimity, build trust, and create new worlds moving forward. (And we will find other important questions along the way).
PRE Week 1
1. Your Lineage Assignment
What does it mean to be human? We are biological, historical, and linguistic beings. Using the attached models please create your own lineage document.
This model arrives at us through Chauncey Bell as a gift of Fernando Flores to the participants in his “Power and Wisdom” program.
Susie Cantor’s experience of doing her “Lineage”
“I loved this exercise. I now have a fuller picture — more of a panoramic view of the clearing I am living in.”
Peter Yaholkovsky’s experience of doing his “Lineage”
“I discovered ways in which I am oriented to see the world that I had not previously been aware of, along with a rich sense of the history that I embody.”
2. Bring Your Case to the Master Class
What real-life case/mess are you wrestling with/ stuck in, (professionally or personally) that you’d like to bring to the Masterclass to gain insights and develop new practices for?
Between Week 1 and 3
1. Listen to Jordan Peterson’s discussion with this journalist entitled, “The Collapse of our Values is a Greater Threat than the Climate Change.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zZ2ker1iI
Peterson is talking about what?
How does Peterson position himself in this conversation?
Where do you find yourself positioning yourself as you listen?
What do you admire, and what do you want to take issue with as you listen?
Let us say that he might say that he is speaking from his own clinical judgment as he is speaking to the young journalist. Can you imagine standing in his shoes?
Optional
Optional (brief, thoughtful, intelligent) reading for those following “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zhubov: https://www.profgalloway.com/carcinogens/
No Mercy / No Malice
Carcinogens | No Mercy / No Malice
If Edward Snowden was injected with a megadose of Super Soldier Serum, he’d look something like Frances Haugen. Perhaps Haugen’s disclosures — that among so many other evils, Zuckerberg knew Facebook’s products “harm children” — means that Facebook has crossed the wrong cowboys, specifically … cowgirls who are moms. MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) finally…
Written by
Scott Galloway
Est. reading time
8 minutes