Agency. All power has been effervescing up up up, into stratospherically high off C suites. We no longer see a local world that we have a place in around us; t

Agency. All power has been effervescing up up up, into stratospherically high off C suites. We no longer see a local world that we have a place in around us; the decisions are all made in far off places & built by production line labor thousands of miles yet further still. Few about figure out an orientation & poise in the modern "thrownness" of being. Many do adapt & find a way, but Without agency, we have no core of self to believe in, to fall back in. Every offense grates further. Anger is for the reactive, for the unempowered, those without; those with a sense of self can have affronts big & small roll off, because they have a connection to meaning. They believe in something and their role in that something. Agency & self co-develop, and are the antidote to being easily swayed. (This is not a total answer. But I believe these conditions form a sizable chunk of the bedrock of our social conditions & experiences, set up what zeitgeists come and go.) (This belief in human agency is Ppart of the reason I believe so strongly in http://malleable.systems http://malleable.systems. Technology ought offer us a path to agency, a way to check the Black Iron Prison of consumerdom/control. This is a religious/spiritual calling, of letting people back in to systems, to me.)