IDK if you saw this thread but this video (while very much politically focused on "revolution") does speak to that scaffolding work, where the artists & philosophers do the visioning work that, once the spark of revolution occurs, provides the WHAT NOW for the next phase. It's laying the foundation and framework for that new world... it's the seeds we are both planting and growing (like so many because again it's widespread, mycelium, not a singular thing that scales).
"Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil holds that only a few people have the fortitude to look in times of distress into what he calls the molten pit of human reality. Most studiously ignore the pit. Artists and philosophers for Nietzsche are consumed, however, by an insatiable curiosity, a quest for truth, and a desire for meaning..."
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