diff --git a/content/session/trust.md b/content/session/trust.md index 1d90cb4..2e027f4 100644 --- a/content/session/trust.md +++ b/content/session/trust.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If we don’t have experiences sharing resources, or sharing our stories of stru It’s vital to recognize that falienation also affects the fortunate. Say that you’ve worked out a way to survive well enough in this brutal financial landscape and your material needs are covered or exceeded. This can be alienating in part because your security comes largely from your ability to purchase what you need, rather than rely on others, and partly because you are living in a society where some people’s comfort comes at the expense of others. In a system where only some are permitted to thrive, we come to resent one another, in all directions, which maximizes distrust and makes it even harder to learn to share central resources. -**Learning to trust ourselves again for the first time** +## Learning to trust ourselves again for the first time The Hologram is a social technology to rebuild the social trust that has been dissolved by living in and with Capitalism. Decades of neoliberalism and austerity have taught us that our health is our personal responsibility. Most governments’ responses to the current pandemic have allowed whatever trust we had in them to look out for our welfare to melt like salt in hot water, and now we have to gargle with this stuff. Many people have lost their jobs and their ability to pay rent, and the state (in most cases) has done little to nothing to support them. The last crystals of trust in society have dissolved. @@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ We are in for the fight of our lives in the years to come to save the world from 3. Which side has more people? 4. What’s the difference between the people who you trust, and those who trust you? 5. What would it take to help the people who need support to be able to become people who you could go to for support? Or, what would help your supporters become better at what they do for you? And, what would make you better at offering support? -6. For each person, and in relationship to you, consider the following +6. For each person, and in relationship to you, consider the following: a. Boundaries (positive and negative) b. Courage (yours and theirs) c. Skills (yours and theirs) -7. Based on your considerations, circle the three people you might approach to be your triangle, if you were to be a hologram +7. Based on your considerations, circle the three people you might approach to be your triangle, if you were to be a hologram. 8. Based on your considerations above, circle the three people whom you might learn from if they were a hologram and you were in their triangle.