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  • From: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX October 2025 Update: “A time for peace (it’s never too late)”
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 11:04:28 -0400

Dear friends (new and old):


It is now 5786 on the Jewish calendar, and I am still in this “mix”?! It’s hard to recognize how we’ve again returned to “back to school” fall festivities amidst so much political turmoil locally, globally, and transnationally. For this occasion, I have compiled a new “rubric” for my efforts based on the Global Leadership & Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Project’s criteria


  • Uncertainty avoidance: Mitigating the discomforts of an unpredictable future

  • Power distance: Expecting that power should be equally shared (albeit in different ways)

  • Institutional collectivism: Encouraging collective distribution of resources 

  • In-group collectivism: Expressing pride, loyalty, & cohesiveness

  • Gender egalitarianism: Minimizing gender role differences to prevent discrimination

  • Assertiveness: Supporting assertive (even confrontational) dynamics in our social relationships

  • Future orientation: Investing in the future (and otherwise delaying gratification)

  • Performance orientation: Rewarding improvements for excellence

  • Humane orientation: Promoting fairness, altruism, friendliness, generosity, caring and kindness throughout our negotiations


I did this because the “spiritual incomprehensibilities” remain contentious topics since politics and religion seem to invite more conflict than resolution; and I find it even more painful to ponder our emerging realities as a result.


While I still recall how every Jewish household I visited over the years had at least one copy of The Jewish Book of Why on their bookshelves, I am now starting to feel like we should be experiencing a weird kind of “revival” given recent encounters with Zach Bodner’s Why do Jewish book. And it seems especially helpful for me to reconcile my ongoing efforts for making amends in an unapologetic world as I am trying to reconsider the possibilities of a transformation of religion in this Jewish year of 5786.


Obviously, we are thinking, feeling, and doing our “work” as both personal and shared journeys across the metaverse. As such, I am focusing on my agendas for building a more universal sense of benevolence by creating socio-emotional connections and otherwise trying to aggregate our resources. 


Philanthrocapitalism often suggests how class action lawsuits seem like the preferred course of action; but I think those “big tech giants” might soon be ready to negotiate different partnerships and for building alliances across these inexcusable “silos.” Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and their ilk must all be very aware of their power, but perhaps they haven’t seriously considered the previously referenced “GLOBE criteria” in the ways I am advocating. 


I would love to see Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, Yochai Benkler, and other talented people at Harvard (and the Berkman Klein center) invite Mark Zuckerberg for a return to finish his degree as a collaborative redesign of Facebook under the guise of those more non-traditional “project learning” experiences; a proposal that could be piloted throughout the various  local constituencies (minimally in Cambridge) based on new awarenesses involving research in tribalism and moral reasoning. 


Throughout my career in information, media, communication, and technology literacies, I continue to reflect on the mass media content that I have consumed on cable TV channels like MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, etc. minimally for my own entertainment but also because it clearly informed my extra-curricular efforts (as a college radio DJ and music editor of the campus newspaper) when I was an undergraduate student. 


I retain substantial fondness for music videos and other artefacts which featured artists like DEVO, Talking Heads, REM, and Nirvana; as I fondly reminisce over tiny snippets that are taken from less recognizable artists (like The Minutemen and Bob Mould) because it always seemed like a more meaningful form of engagement than resorting to “wallflowering hecklers” (cf: “Beavis and Butthead” or “Statler and Waldorf” from the Muppet Show)! 


The weird thing now is to flip my inquiry to include not just information, media, and technology artefactual consumption and production (from MTV&VH1 to MySpace&Facebook); especially when I ponder how college kids still want to earn a living off their “side projects” in the ways that Mark Zuckerberg’s "rockstar" success story suggests (which has since made “nerdy” skills like coding to be now considered as “sexy”).


But  I also think this is the kind of inquiry that looks beyond retail sales (and other “supply and demand” accountability metrics) as the primary measure of overall success -- since the intersections of art and commerce are always tough to navigate (everyone from Seymour Stein to David Geffen seems to know that already).


I believe an expansion of opportunities and other iterational upgrades only further legitimize those “feminine” sensibilities which seem to transcend mundane limitations (and otherwise sanctions innovations that further prioritize both process and outcome); rather than making altruism and philanthropy an “afterthought” to economic rewards and entrepreneurial success. Especially as we realign our curricula to explicitly support the utilization of moral discernments (and other “wisdom-level” meta-heuristics) because it promotes that balance between logical rationality and emotional intuition.


That "Project GLOBE" research invites a different kind of conversation by emphasizing our common humanity from the outset; and, as such, I hope it will change how we approach all our endeavors for personal and communal fulfillment across the metaverse. I’m not sure who is successfully adopting this criteria (if anyone), but I can see that wisdom is more readily recognized when it is an outcome – rather than an intermediary, developmental stage. 


In other words, we rarely support wisdom-attainment as the original goal; but “when the dust settles” we seem to be more willing to accept these as long-term resolutions. (And I think that is precisely the point!). Existentialist angst is very real and justified; but it is never too late to return to our original plan. 


Being spiritually engaged isn’t only about challenging the subordination of women and/or the subjugation of femininity; it also offers shared recognition for the ongoing failures of toxic masculinity (i.e. greed, violence, and misogyny) which continues to support my assertion that consumers require safeguards from the inappropriate, unethical, and ineffective uses of information, media, and technology as they continue to be causing a variety of disorders, pollution, and other forms of contamination in our minds, bodies, and souls (as individuals, communities, and in the spaces that exist somewhere in-between or beyond?!).


Happy October. 


Don’t forget that Media Literacy Week starts on 10/27


And, as always, thank you for reading; and (of course) please be well.


-Dina



Dina L. Hornreich, MS, MLIS 

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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 October 2025 Update: “A time for peace (it’s never too late)”, Dina Hornreich, 10/03/2025

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