Missing Words | Frankly #30
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Last week I did an Earth Day talk called Words of Our Lives and it catalogued three dozen or so terms like fossil fuels that from a systems perspective actually have different meanings. After reflecting on that exercise it made me wonder what words in our culture don't exist but maybe should. For instance there is a Swedish word that's lagom which stands for enough or just the right amount we don't have lagom in the US cultural lexicon. Another concept is the future itself. We don't have an emoji that represents the future of the thousands of emojis you can find on your phone. There is no concept to represent the future in our materials.
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