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Awareness Isn’t Enough For Change
- Awareness alone rarely produces structural change because it ignores what to do next and how social orders constrain action.
- Will Paris argues consciousness must include prediction and practical knowledge to translate awareness into transformation.
Consciousness As Prediction
- Will reframes consciousness as also a predictive, environment-reading faculty that sets horizons of normative expectations.
- This explains why shocks (crises) don't automatically redirect behavior without institutions that reshape those horizons.
Create Institutions For Utopian Knowledge
- Build institutions that produce collective practical knowledge before or during crises so new horizons can be enacted.
- Treat utopian work as organized research into feasible alternatives, not only personal imagination.