A lot of people care. And want to act on that care. I’d say a majority of the people in the world cares and wants to take responsibility, for themselves and each other.
I think caring is the basis for society. If we don’t care we have no reason to build anything for anyone except ourselves. Not a society.
But we/they don’t know how. Tools and processes that used to work don’t anymore. Or maybe they do but we don’t understand if and how.
Tools for cognition
So we need tools and processes that we understand and can shape to our needs. The most urgent component is an information infrastructure. Right now we’re using communication tools that confuse which won’t result in a society.
The technologies we use shape our thoughts. And remember, language is a technology. So it’s not just the wysiwyg and the markup, it’s also what we publish. Thinking, feeling, information, data, structure, form and functionality are all part of the same infosphere. It’s a network. Like our brains.
Crucially, it can all be part of an infrastructure if we construct it with that purpose in mind. The infrastructure should empower and protect human cognition.
Blogs with rss is a good starting point. Simple technologies that allow us to understand what is going on. Probably some wikis as knowledge repositories. Tutorials. Maybe the Fediverse but not sure if the current tools empower us.
News does not help in it’s current shape. I check Wikipedia’s Current Events Portal once a week. It doesn’t try to grab your attention, no hooks. It’s not a feed in the social/news media sense, pretty static in comparison which helps. But I’m not sure why I’m reading news so I guess I need to sort that out.
Free information
Infrastructure is shared. Information infrastructure should be licensed for sharing. I think CC BY SA is the right license. That lets us build a commons, an infrastructure, that won’t go away and that can grow dynamically.
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