What if we trusted you?
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Jerry is the founder of REX and has been doing business as Sociate, a name he coined because he is skilled at associating ideas and people, and also because he believes that the social changes that we are going through as a result of all the new connectivity will be more profound than the structural and economic changes we have already seen.
What if we trusted you?
Jerry is the founder of REX and has been doing business as Sociate, a name he coined because he is skilled at associating ideas and people, and also because he believes that the social changes that we are going through as a result of all the new connectivity (e.g., Internet, mobiles, inexpensive cameras, video sharing, tweeting) will be more profound than the structural and economic changes we have already seen.
His talk about ‘Unschooling’, is about a lack of trust. Many of the institutions we take for granted are designed from a basis of mistrust. Skip school too often? Go to jail. Run that red light, even when nobody is around for blocks? Ticket.
Health care, government, religions and many more spheres of activity are crippled by this trust deficit. We fear the bad actors so much, that we design coercive environments for everyone.
As a result, good-faith negotiation and cooperation have dwindled.
We’ve been treated as consumers for so long, with little sense of agency, that the present re-taking of agency feels like a Renaissance.