# \[2023\] Reworlding fellowship

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**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2023-reworlding-fellowship/1554 "2023-04-05T22:18:22Z")
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# Session 3

Of all the beings in the earth metabolism, the humans are the youngest. Of all the cultures, the western is the youngest.

Indigenous populations have a lot of knowledge to share, but it is unintelligible for us.

## Frameworks to work together

### 4 denials

1. The denial of systemic, historical, and ongoing violence and of complicity in harm: the fact that our comforts, securities, and enjoyments are subsidized by expropriation and exploitation elsewhere.

2. The denial of the limits of the planet and of the unsustainability of modernity/coloniality: the fact that finite earth-metabolism cannot sustain exponential growth, consumption, extraction, exploitation and expropriation indefinitely.

3. The denial of entanglement: our insistence in seeing ourselves as separate from each other and the land, rather than “entangled” within a wider living metabolism that is bio-intelligent.

4. The denial of the magnitude and complexity of the problems we need to face together: the tendency to look for simplistic solutions that make us feel and look good and that may address symptoms, but not the root causes, of our collective complex predicament.

We have been conditioned to behave in a way that is comfortable.

## Citizenship

First of communities, then in countries, and then international. Now citizenship is more flied, shifting to:

 ![Screenshot from 2023-06-05 07-06-25](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/2X/d/dff61ad2b9134730f5fd9ed7e75b9aae85076ec8.png)

The ones in blue are the human constructs.

- Plastics are now in our body.
- Our own unconscious is part of the metabolism of the planet.
- The earth suffering is also happening within us.
- Plant medicine can stop the numbing and connect.

## Composting the shit

Rude diagnostic exercise of modern/colonial internal infrastructures.

### Dominion and triumph

Of humans over nature  
Of men over women  
Of women over men  
Of white over Indigenous/Black/brown  
Of Indigenous/Black/brown over white  
Of cis-hetero over trans-queer  
Of trans-queer over cis-hetero  
and so on and so forth…

### Ownership

Of land  
Of human bodies  
Of other species  
Of others’ labour  
Of merit  
Of capital  
Of pride  
Of privilege  
Of delusions of superiority  
Of own brand and carefully crafted self-image

### Consumption

Of stuff  
Of knowledge/information  
Of critique/erudition/data  
Of experiences  
Of relationships  
Of outrage  
Of love and care  
Of arts and politics  
Of beauty and pain  
Of community and intimacy

### Entitlement

To self-expression  
To self-satisfaction  
To moral high-grounds  
To authority, autonomy and arbitration  
To validation and affirmation  
To possessions and possessiveness  
To emotional extraction  
To relational exploitation  
To intellectual masturbation

### Demands

For self-congratulatory  
For self-celebratory  
For self-promoting  
And self-reaffirming experiences  
For reality curated to one’s liking  
For certainty, comfort and control  
For attention, likes and dopamine  
For soothing, numbing and coddling  
For self-actualization and self-realization  
For easy formulas and quick fixes  
For pleasure-filled idealizations

### Birthrights

Self-interest  
Self-centredness  
Exceptionalism  
Complacency  
Escapism  
Arrogance  
Innocence  
Purity  
Futurity  
Impunity  
Immunity and indifference  
…to harms inflicted and one’s metabolic entanglement  
right, left and centre…

Take a minute to do a self scan of all the voices that come up in response to the poem. A whole bus of voices inside of us, reacting, feeling, talking to each other.

If we can’t hold space for ourselves we won’t be able to deal with what’s surrounding us without giving up, making a tantrum, throwing up.

The offering of ceremonies and medicines comes with the expectation of a commitment to indigenous struggles. Personal transformation was happening, but the transformed human just moved on with their lives. The invitation is to become a good ancestor.

Modernity is self-infantilizing, disconnecting us to our responsibility. Education in the west socializes mastery, a dopamine approach. What would be an education that focuses on depth, peeling layers, not numbing the pain. Learning animated by engaging with mystery, collective epiphany.

### 7 steps back, 7 steps forward/aside

1. Stepping back from one’s self image, to decenter the ego and center the challenge at hand.
2. Stepping back from one’s generational cohort, to have a sense of how incoming generations may interpret and experience the challenges differently.
3. Stepping back from the universalization of one’s social/cultural/economic parameters of normality, to understand one’s privilege as a loss of perspective.
4. Stepping back from the immediate context and time, to see wider historical, structural and systemic patterns.
5. Stepping back from normalized patterns of problem-posing, problem-solving, and relationship-building, to tap what is already viable, but unimaginable/unintelligible in the mainstream.
6. Stepping back from the elevation of humanity above the rest of nature, to consider our metabolic entanglement.
7. Stepping back from the impulse to find quick fixes, in order to expand our capacity not to be immobilized by complexity, complicity and uncertainty.

* * *

1. Stepping forward/aside with honesty and courage, to see what you don’t want to see.
2. Stepping forward/aside with humility, to find strength in openness and vulnerability.
3. Stepping forward/aside with self-reflexivity, so that you can read how you are being read and learn to read the room.
4. Stepping forward/aside with self-discipline to do the work on yourself so that you don’t become work for other people.
5. Stepping forward/aside with maturity, to do what is needed rather than only what you want to do.
6. Stepping forward/aside with expanding discernment and attention, increasing care in proportion to risk.
7. Stepping forward/aside with adaptability, flexibility, stamina and resilience for the long haul, and be prepared to fall, to fail, to have your plans shattered, to be stretched, to change course and to find joy in the struggle itself rather than in the imagined prize at the end.

### Heads up

- Hegemonic practices: reinforcing and justifying the status quo.
- Ethnocentric projections: presenting one view as universal and superior.
- Ahistorical thinking: forgetting the role of historical legacies and complicities in shaping current problems.
- Depolitized orientations: disregarding the impacts, power inequalities, and delegitimizing dissent.
- Self–serving motivations: invested in self-congratulatory heroism.
- Uncomplicated solutions: offering feel-good quick fixes that do not address root causes of problems.
- Paternalistic projections: infantilizing the other, and seeking gratitude from those who have been “helped”.

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