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points of life |
| futuring life
gary e. davis |
March 9, 2022 |
For the most part, futuring is either prospective (fictive, speculative) or devotional (avowing engagement with a specific, goal-oriented path to which one shows fidelity). Here, I merely want to highlight the importance of orienting action relative to futures: potentials, promise, and possibilities which are authentically appealing and important. Lived time primarily faces what can approach, in light of which we make sense of what we’ve left. Substantively, that’s always relative to the scale of interest and relevance: family, neighborhood, community, region—or conceptual appeal, in my case (for upcoming discussions). “The point of your life either contribute[s]’ to that importance of futures, I wrote earlier [2] ”or you’ll be forgotten—later than sooner, maybe.” So, meanwhile “how exemplary, how admirable, how virtuous can you be?” I enjoy an abstract community: a personal library, accumulated over decades—thousands of neighbors who’ve never met me, identified by their monographic traces, most of whom I haven’t made time to retrace—so many friends, you know. I collect. I’ve gathered a few hundred of the best voices to be convened for my conceptual convention. The others—from those loved to those barely known (sorry)—await appreciation in stored limbo. The convening might express a conception of leading minds in an art of comprehensive comprehension that is supplemented by new members emerging (rarely). It’s not that any grand seminar can divine the future of humanity, but we can advance appreciation of the scale and holism that better minds may be brought to consiliently imply. Anyway, “…the future of humanity belongs to the caring people who evolve it, thus constellating history to come,” I noted ealrier [2]. “The future belongs to leading degrees and scales of persistent care.” Yet, “there’s no theory of Our evolving that captures a Telos, because We are ultimately Open ended, as if Endless.” We enown ‘future’ as a verb. |
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