#19 Alnoor Ladha: Is This Even the Right Question?

What Could Possibly Go Right?

Alnoor Ladha is a political strategist, writer and activist, with a focus on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. He is a co-founder of Tierra Valiente, a post-capitalist community and healing center in the jungle of northern Costa Rica. He is a board member of Culture Hack Labs and The Emergence Network.

Alnoor brings spirituality and big picture thinking to today’s conversation on What Could Possibly Go Right? including:

• The question of “for whom” when asking what could go right, plus the understanding that right and wrong isn’t binary
• The debunking of the belief that the pandemic, climate crisis or impending financial recession are a disruption on progress as “the way things were supposed to be”
• That embracing uncertainty and being at peace with ambiguity is cultivating a more resilient character for us
• That we need to fundamentally rethink our economic operating system, away from a globalized system of extraction when only a few people are holding the power. A post-capitalist reality may be emerging.
• That this is the moment for us to say what we actually stand for, not just stand against. What do we want to live for and what are our values?
• That we've inherited a story in a system that doesn't serve the majority of humans; and as none of us are outside the system, there is no such thing as apolitical

Resources

• The Rules therules.org
• Culture Hack Labs culturehack.io
• Tierra Valiente braveearth.com

Additional reading by Alnoor Ladha

• What is Solidarity? - Kosmos Journal
• The Poverty of Progress - New Internationalist
• The ‘lungs of the Earth’ are really its heart: an Indigenous cure to save the Amazon - The Correspondent

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