Anti-Patterns

Thought I'd share some anti-patterns about thinking from my Liberating Voices book... Good suggestions as to how to be irrelevant in the 21st Century!

• Thinking that people can do nothing
• Thinking of people and institutions as being autonomous and strictly competitive
• Thinking of technology as being autonomous and immutable, as being something that technopundits alone are capable of creating
• Thinking of our own habits of thinking and acting as being as being correct and immutable
• Thinking about value in restricted ways
• Thinking that experts and professionals will solve all our problems
• Thinking that there is no need to develop a collective social agenda
• Thinking and speaking using a constricted set of allowable actions and vocabulary
• Thinking that propaganda, simplistic explanations, and toxic media are acceptable
• Thinking that the free market or vague ideas such as ‘‘progress’’ will rescue us effortlessly through side effects
• Thinking that we have no responsibility for other people and the planet now and in future generations

Of course the reason for these anti-patterns is to resist them!