If indeed we are to take seriously the idea that beings do not merely have different perspectives on a single world, but rather manifest in and through different worlds, then we must develop a manner of being together that not only honours these multiple perspectives, but also one that can negotiate between worlds such that all beings are afforded the relative freedom to move through their world in ways that promote the freedom of all.
The future is radically undetermined; “we” create it through our living. The ferocity with which many social movements are waged is due to the (unconscious) belief that we are fighting not only for particular social issues, but for “our own” future. This intensity stems of course, from a limited, individualist perspective in which we feel that freedom is a zero sum game. It says: I need my future to be arranged for me, otherwise I will suffer and die. What this overlooks however is the basic fact that freedom for the individual, is freedom for all, and that freedom for all, is freedom for the individual. This, it is important to note, includes the worldings of those more-than-human others who have been subjugated in the name of human “progress” and “autonomy”. Without a deep and profound acknowledgement of the worldings of not only birds, whales, insects, trees etc., but also the elemental realities that they are constituted with(in), we will be moving towards a future without oikos, without a home. Which is to say, no future at all.
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