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the shared Christian story during the Renaissance

Church, artists, businesses and consumers all contributed to the great rebirth of culture

largely driven by the church and government institutions which we don’t necessarily want to recreate, right?

So how do we achieve the same effect?

The answer is sacred content.

I adopt what I believe in, and if the content is sacred, then it is beyond question.

An authority has determined these are sacred and therefore worthy

The Authority establishes a values framework, a ruling hierarchy directs and stewards the sacred content, and a host of intermediaries that carry it out to the faithful consumers.

We now have a strong distrust of authority, which has lost all legitimacy:

All around us there’s a collapse of the legitimacy of authorities, with much cynicism from the population. There’s never been a greater need for sacred content that can be trusted and deemed legitimate. How to achieve it without authorities? This is where we have to pivot our minds. We have to replace the dynamics of its creation within the authority with something else. This slide suggests an alternative:

We can create a values framework using collaborative culture techniques like community mythology projects. Out of these come sacred content that is legitimate because we created it according to shared values and a collective conscience. We have to put in place processes and rituals to establish, enshrine and communicate it.