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Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Keepers of the Fabric

The keeper of the fabric is a person who helps maintain institutions and traditions over time. In salisbury cathedral, for example, they keep track of finances but also have this role of bridging generational conversations. The sentinelese tribes of the anduman islands in the indian ocean were able to survive sunami by relying on their oral story telling tradition. And so it was this very old knowledge, thes keepers of the fabric, that helped save life, save property, save and save culture over time.

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