Ep. 79 – Ashley Colby on Building Community by Rediscovering Tradition

Ashley Colby from Rizoma School and Doomer Optimism Podcast joins Thriving the Future to discuss her tweet on Rediscovering Tradition:

Ashley and her husband Patrick have three kids, moved to Uruguay, and setup the Rizoma Field School, which teaches regenerative farming and community.

Expat life in Uruguay
- Universal healthcare – even new immigrants applying for residency get it.
- Quality of education
- Easy to immigrate.
- Spanish speaking, which is relatively much easier to learn and speak.
The La Mano sculpture in Uruguay is the image at the top of this post.
If a majority of your tradition has been lost, at least a generation or two back, what is the best way to rebuild?
Instead of building from scratch, look to the past. Pull from the past, realizing that there was always context and a tradeoff in that tradition. What does learning from the past mean for a modern person?
Take responsibility for social norms instead of offloading that to the State.
Creating culture is something that you do by enacting or embodying it.

“Attempts at trying to create things from scratch, instead of looking to the past and trying to pull from the past, are somewhat foolish and hubristic. There’s a reason that these systems developed iteratively over time.”
Ashley Colby

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