The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System with Indy Johar
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Oct 23, 2024 
Indy Johar, an architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs, discusses the intricate link between system design and human behavior. He explores how our built environments shape cultural values, the need for proactive crisis management, and the importance of interdisciplinary thinking. Indy also examines radical ideas like self-owning land, emphasizes the shift from competition to cooperation in governance, and calls for a new understanding of individualism and collectivism in modern systems. His insights challenge us to rethink our approach to societal change.
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Privatization of Common Goods
- Indy Johar's work focuses on social change informed by a systems lens of global crises.
- He believes the core structural issue is the privatization of common goods like land access, leading to externalization and extraction.
Reciprocal Design
- The systems humans design shape their values and behaviors, creating a reciprocal relationship.
- This recursive loop can trap us in modalities, like the dominion-based system influencing our self-perception.
Reimagining Humanity
- Humans should be viewed as "becomings" (developmental), "multitudes" (emergent plurals), and "interbeings" (in relationship).
- Current institutional logics deviate from this understanding, hindering our relationship with the planet.