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[TypicalGirls] HumanifestX June 2025 Update: More ironies of the human condition? The more similar we are, the more likely we are to disagree!
- From: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
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- Subject: [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX June 2025 Update: More ironies of the human condition? The more similar we are, the more likely we are to disagree!
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:39:51 -0400
Dear friends (new and old) who are seeking to become more informed, more engaged, & wiser participants within an integrated, recovering transnational democracy:
As today is the last day of June, I remain torn upon reflecting on this past month. Juneteenth observances only yielded more ambivalence for me sitting in colonial New England where I am grateful to be reminded of the abolitionist work by activist efforts at the David Ruggles Center <https://davidrugglescenter.org/>.
I believe that certain “patriarchal” failures share etiologies at the cross-sections of:
Individual variables: Personality, identity, and other “dispositional” considerations
Group dynamics: Cultural affiliations and other social connections & networks across organic, analog, & digital communication channels
Systemic factors: the failures from essentialism, foundationalism, fundamentalism, and “other” provisional or developmental human lifespan adaptations that naturally transpire (despite spatial and temporal limitations).
As such, I am trying to revisit my college radio past to pitch a podcast to the local public access information, media, and technology platforms. I am seeking to model critical engagement and similarly “crucial conversations” in order to improve civic discourse and public engagement. Librarians prefer to call this work “scholarly communication,” but I seek to reassess all aspects of daily living in order to aggregate and otherwise adopt certain “meta-journalistic” practices described by Mark Coddington. I am calling this effort “NAMP: Not Another Marketing Ploy” which is just a “Chomsky-style” realignment for validating cultural capital and social intuitionism under surveillance capitalism while rebuilding in the post-Covid era & conceptual age. I wrote up a summary of these ongoing efforts using a Wiki platform, should you decide to peruse and otherwise actively interpret its content: <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/NAMP:_Not_Another_Marketing_Ploy>.
As an educator, researcher, and content creator whose areas of focus include: language, media, and communication; I am often reminded of our many uses involving “cuisenaire rods” as a learning tool for understanding the ways in which basic structures can fit together in different ways. While I believe that all of humankind requires the same basic kinds of needs, wants, and desires; it is anthropology that teaches me how different communities tend to arrange (and re-arrange) the various pieces for accessing intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, and similarly "fundamental" resources that are required for maintaining our personal and communal well-being. One size rarely fits all; but cultural humility minimally helps me to ponder why we are still experiencing such substantial economic & political upheavals.
As I continue to formulate these approaches for critiquing expressions in the domains of arts & culture, primarily music (e.g. I recently wrote a review of this documentary about Morrissey’s LGBT+ LatinX fanbase for the Dagger zine blog); my hope is to more widely expand cooperative, egalitarian, and introspective discernments into our daily “informatic” needs, wants, desires in order to improve the decision-making efforts of agencies in healthcare, education, religion, entertainment, economic, government, and similarly fundamental communal institutions. This applies to the full spectrum of cross-cultural, multilingual, and transnational variables that invite conflict and grievances amongst internal and external community stakeholders. The goal remains to improve our productive communicative competencies employed when speaking and writing (or “encoding” messages) as well as comprehension aspects when listening and reading (or “decoding” messages) sent in documents, recordings, photographs, etc. As such, these efforts require renegotiating the creation, selection, organization, presentation, diffusion, and preservation of information, media, and technology artefacts.
This is an integrative/holistics approach for improving conditions for all constituencies in our immediate and surrounding environments (both dynamic and static). I consider this to be an endeavor in “public health equity” as I ponder the ways in which we can more reasonably accommodate lifelong learners’ preferences, styles, aptitudes, modalities, orientations, etc. in order to achieve more gratifying outcomes in our daily lives for more sustainably living, learning, working, loving, creating, and growing together.
You may recall that I remain concerned by the ways we have become decentralized and over-differentiated which is causing further divisions (when we just need more resolutions). As a non-binary Jewish feminist, my values focus on education and employment (especially for girls, women, and others who respond favorably to “high touch” sensibilities) as we strive for more autonomous lifestyles than previous generations; but I am primarily interested in promoting universalism, benevolence, and similarly “feminine” attributes for all humans (men, women, and everyone in-between or beyond?!).
If authenticity, safety, consistency, acceptance, comfort, trust, and impartiality are not established prior to attempting our communicative goals; then we will simply continue to filibuster in a collectively traumatized state of “freeze, fight, flight, etc.” This further perpetuates contradictions, attribution errors, and the “other” ongoing crises of “cognitive dissonance;” rather than facilitating the improvements we need, want, and deserve in order to become more informed, more engaged, and wiser participants in a transnational democracy and global citizenry.
Thank you for reading another update; and please try to enjoy the forthcoming patriotic holiday weekend!
-Dina
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medium.com/@dina-hornreich
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c/o FOH & CSO @29 Industrial Drive East, Northampton, MA 01060
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Advocating for better consumer safeguards and sustainable
economic reform in the age of surveillance capitalism for "wising up" from rationality to morality in this emerging "Conceptual
Age."
Stopping the epidemics of misinformation, disinformation, & malinformation (propaganda)
from disrupting our information, media, & technology (IMT) ecosystems by
facilitating the effective, appropriate, & ethical comprehension/production
of IMT artefacts on our journeys toward integrative recovery & holistic
wellbeing.
Facilitating the acquisition of lifelong literacies, instead of reinforcing the perception that "natural vulnerabilities" are "permanent deficiencies," as a community of learners struggling to fight the onslaught of unhealthy messages generated by practices which condone/promote the exploitation of typical human fallibilities reinforcing the greedy, violent, and misogynistic approaches of a plutocratic tyranny who resorts to criminalizing, pathologizing, and otherwise blaming the victims of their wanton ludicrousness.
Alerting
consumers to the impact of numerous illusions and other deceptive
efforts that turn our individual differences into manufactured
deviations (and other forms of "learned helplessness"); thereby
revealing systemic injustices that are perpetuated by ongoing
inequitable power dynamics (i.e. colonialism) and other accessibility
barriers to the basic resources that support our universal human needs,
wants, & desires.
Building a taskforce of nonviolent communicators who are:
- Promoting an informed, engaged, & wise global citizenry and participatory transnational Democracy. (cf: listography)
- Elevating “Conceptual Age” skills (design, story, symphony, empathy, play, & meaning) in order to remedy the shortcomings of residuals from the preceding "Information Age" and "Industrial Age."
- Preventing media pollution, information disorder, & “techno-lust” from further disrupting our social, cultural, political, & economic ecosystems.
- Championing mindful “meta-literacies” (i.e. becoming adept bullsh*t detectives) involving the creation, selection, organization, presentation, diffusion, consumption, & preservation stages for "processing" IMT artefactual innovations.
- Adopting the principles of "Data Feminism": Examining power; challenging power; elevating emotion & embodiment; rethinking binaries & hierarchies; embracing pluralism; considering context; and making labor visible.
- [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX June 2025 Update: More ironies of the human condition? The more similar we are, the more likely we are to disagree!, Dina Hornreich, 06/30/2025
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