The BANI world is an acronym made up of the words 'brittle', 'anxious', 'nonlinear' and 'incomprehensible'. The creator of this new concept is Jamais Cascio, American anthropologist, author and futurist.
BDSM⚡Call Girls in Sector 99 Noida Escorts >༒8448380779 Escort Service
BANI World.pptx
1.
2.
3. Brittle - The Illusion of Strength
Brittle means being fragile, breakable, while
seeming firm. It refers to something that is not as
strong as it seems. It is illusory strength, the
belief that “everything will be alright” and the
assumptions that “we all know are true,” except
that they aren’t. Brittle refers to the myths that
people tell themselves and each other to feel
better and more secure.
4. Anxious - The Illusion of Control
Anxiety refers to a feeling of helplessness, of
being overwhelmed by everything that one
faces. It comes with stress and worrying and a
fear of not being able to cope with what the
world asks—and not really knowing what will
come in the first place, thereby making it hard
or impossible to make the “right” decisions.
5. Non-linear - The Illusion of
Predictability
Non-linearity is already a popular concept for a
longer time. In innovation, for example it
basically says: there’s no simple straight route
from A to B. Instead, there’s detours, dead ends,
and unexpected outcomes. It’s also part of the
common vocabulary in statistics, where it refers
to a relationship between two or more variables
that’s not a straight line.
6. Incomprehensible - The Illusion of
Knowledge
Finally, incomprehensible refers to people’s
experience that they don’t understand what is
going on. They can’t oversee it, can’t grasp it,
can’t interpret what happens, and why. This
means they can’t find the answers they are
looking for and, as far as they do get answers,
that they can’t make sense of the answers either.
7. Incomprehensible - The Illusion of
Knowledge
This comes with a fourth illusion, the Illusion of
Knowledge. People might have thought they understood
the world. But they never have. It’s for this reason that
experts and scientists frequently say things as “the more I
know, the more I realize I don’t know.” The world is a
mystery, despite the carefully built up illusion that we
understand it. And maybe that’s not something to worry
about. On the contrary, it makes the world and our lives
worthwhile. Or as Einstein told us: “There are only two
ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
8. BANI is one great reminder for all of us. We’re
living in a world that’s delicate, uncontrollable,
unpredictable and impossible to comprehend.
Let’s celebrate, accept and wonder.
The creator of this concept is Jamais Cascio, an American anthropologist, futurist, and author.
The world has been around for eons, we tend to negate its indestructibility and durability because of its seemingly infinite lifespan. But it is fragile and it has always been. The fact that people didn’t (want to) see this, and instead assumed that it was unbreakable, doesn’t change that. And that’s what this “new” concept really reveals: that people finally discover that the world, especially its nature, economy, and peacefulness is a fragile, convoluted interconnected ecosystem. Embracing Brittle means letting go this first illusion, the Illusion of Strength.
Anxiety is largely a byproduct of information. The more people hear and see, especially bad news, the more anxious they get. Because, there’s only so much one can do. And with real-time news coming from all over the world, bombarding us 24/7, it is no surprise that people become anxious—because they’re not in control anymore.
Like the Brittle concept, this says more about people than about the world. Anxiety is a subjective feeling caused by a gap between what one expects and what one experiences. People expect control and for a long time they have been able to hold on to that illusion. The last decades may have been relatively quiet in the Western world, but unrest, war, and crises have always been a normal part of life on this planet. This means people have never been in control. The key difference is that they now finally start realizing that (again)—the Illusion of Control.
The fact that people increasingly talk about non-linearity again doesn’t say anything about the world in which they live. Non-linearity has always been there and it is a natural feature of any complex system. It is commonly known as the “butterfly effect,” the fact that a chain of cause-effect relationships started by a small event (a butterfly flapping its wings) can result in highly unexpected and disruptive events (a tornado at the other side of the ocean).
Like the Brittle concept, this says more about people than about the world. Anxiety is a subjective feeling caused by a gap between what one expects and what one experiences. People expect control and for a long time they have been able to hold on to that illusion. The last decades may have been relatively quiet in the Western world, but unrest, war, and crises have always been a normal part of life on this planet. This means people have never been in control. The key difference is that they now finally start realizing that (again)—the Illusion of Control.
It’s Not Our World, It’s Us
Every word we use and every concept we use to describe the world around us says something about ourselves. This was the case with “dynamic,” “turbulent,” “VUCA,” and all other concepts used to describe our difficulties with grasping and controlling the world. But BANI takes this to a new level. Rather than saying something about the world, it first and foremost says something about how we perceive it. It is not the world that has become more Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, or Incomprehensible. It us us who finally have to let go the illusion that it is not.
It’s Not Our World, It’s Us
Every word we use and every concept we use to describe the world around us says something about ourselves. This was the case with “dynamic,” “turbulent,” “VUCA,” and all other concepts used to describe our difficulties with grasping and controlling the world. But BANI takes this to a new level. Rather than saying something about the world, it first and foremost says something about how we perceive it. It is not the world that has become more Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, or Incomprehensible. It us us who finally have to let go the illusion that it is not.
The fact that people increasingly talk about non-linearity again doesn’t say anything about the world in which they live. Non-linearity has always been there and it is a natural feature of any complex system. It is commonly known as the “butterfly effect,” the fact that a chain of cause-effect relationships started by a small event (a butterfly flapping its wings) can result in highly unexpected and disruptive events (a tornado at the other side of the ocean).
Like the Brittle concept, this says more about people than about the world. Anxiety is a subjective feeling caused by a gap between what one expects and what one experiences. People expect control and for a long time they have been able to hold on to that illusion. The last decades may have been relatively quiet in the Western world, but unrest, war, and crises have always been a normal part of life on this planet. This means people have never been in control. The key difference is that they now finally start realizing that (again)—the Illusion of Control.