Hello Berlin, my name is Hannah Duplassie and I grew up in a part of South Africa so
the work you're doing is very close to my heart.
As you sit about to create things, I have four things for you to consider.
The first thing is that those people, call them right, wrinkle them fascists, are right.
From within their social system, their belief system, their actions and their worldview makes
perfect sense.
Every war has been fought by people who firmly believed that they're acting in self-defense
and they're backed up by God.
And just arguing with them deepens the divide, it doesn't solve things.
So I have two questions for you to consider.
The one is, how might we meet their worldview with respect and curiosity?
And the other one is, how might we deepen the discourse so we can really understand
the needs under the strategies that they suggest?
The second thing is that those people may be scared.
Anger is seen as a secondary emotion, under anger is fear.
And cynicism, under cynicism, also is the fear of being disappointed again.
So how can we help them and first of all feel seen and safe?
And then how might we acknowledge and welcome fear into the conversation?
Like work with fear and even our own fear, because when we do this work, we are brought
in, we are confronting our own fears when it comes to the fears of our future and our
country.
The third thing is that change in opinion has huge social implications.
And social units, so often our inclusion in the family or system, it depends on our
conformity to the norms.
So for people to break out of what they have been inculturated to believe and do is really
difficult.
So how might we support people to be brave and take risks?
How might we help people to act in line with their integrity and to see a better picture
of the world where we all belong?
And the last one is that those people, they are our family.
One of the fantasies of modern life is that we're individuals and that our actions don't
impact us negatively.
We are one family and we live in one system where when we do harm to others, we also do
harm to ourselves.
So the question for this one is how might we stand strong in our convictions that all
lives and actions matter, that disrespect and inaction is harmful.
So stand strong in our conviction but also remain open-hearted and with their loving
and respectful attitude towards our dearly beloved brothers and sisters who are acting
in a way that can be really damaging to our collective future.
I really love what you're doing.
Keep going.
This is difficult work but this engaging in this work is the work of shifting both ourselves,
our design community and the world to a better place so keep going.
Thank you.
