Sure! Ultimately, I think we should be aiming for a movement that looks something like this.
In terms of behaviours that would signal people taking this seriously, an example might be a rebalancing of how community building work is evaluated. Currently, the main outcome funders look for is longtermist career changes. This encourages very lifestyle movement-y community building. I would like to see more weight being given to things like the generation of passive support, e.g., is the public shifting support towards the movement? Is the movement’s narrative being elevated in public discourse?
To use terminology I’ve used elsewhere, this change would encourage more ‘mobilising’ and less ‘organising’. It would also encourage a rebalancing of our ‘social change portfolio’ in such a way that we become a slightly more outward-facing movement, one that spends more time talking to and working with the rest of society to achieve shared objectives and less time talking to ourselves.
Sure! Ultimately, I think we should be aiming for a movement that looks something like this.
In terms of behaviours that would signal people taking this seriously, an example might be a rebalancing of how community building work is evaluated. Currently, the main outcome funders look for is longtermist career changes. This encourages very lifestyle movement-y community building. I would like to see more weight being given to things like the generation of passive support, e.g., is the public shifting support towards the movement? Is the movement’s narrative being elevated in public discourse?
To use terminology I’ve used elsewhere, this change would encourage more ‘mobilising’ and less ‘organising’. It would also encourage a rebalancing of our ‘social change portfolio’ in such a way that we become a slightly more outward-facing movement, one that spends more time talking to and working with the rest of society to achieve shared objectives and less time talking to ourselves.