Civic Ignorance

Useful to consider the opposite of civic intelligence...

Not developing our own agenda -- assuming that experts and professionals will solve all our problems and using a constricted set of allowable actions and vocabulary. Likewise assuming that the "free market" or vague ideas of "progress" etc. will rescue us effortly through "side-effects."

Allowing ourselves to be distracted

Thinking of people and institutions as being autonomous and strictly competitive

Thinking that people can do nothing

Thinking of technology as being autonomous and immutable

Thinking of our own habits of thinking and acting as being as being correct and immutable

Using restricted value determinants

Ignoring our responsibility for people and the planet now and in future generations