Join the Asteroids Club
Imagine there is a giant asteroid heading to earth, expected to destroy life as we know it. There’s no question we’d stop the incessant partisan bickering and do everything within our power to deflect the asteroid. Right? Well, we’re here to tell you… there are asteroids headed directly at us.
The bad news: In reality, there are many such “asteroids” headed directly at us with the power to destroy our lives as we know them – and the longer we wait to recognize them, the harder they’ll be to “deflect.” Unfortunately, with the rise of tribal partisanship each asteroid arrives wrapped in a special magnetic field that allows only about half of us to see it.
While that half points, screams and jumps up and down to warn others, earthlings on the other side of the aisle seem to simply shrug… they’ve got their own asteroids to worry about. And as we fight about which asteroid is real, they’re all coming closer by the day and we’re paralyzed to act.
The good news: We’d like to invite you to join “The Asteroids Club,” a state of mind that values long-term thinking, listening and an ounce of prevention (ok to be realistic it’s probably more than an ounce by now). In the Asteroids Club, we see that the problems in our future are ultimately common threats, whether we like that or not. We’ve even got a club motto: “I’ll help you deflect your asteroid if you help me deflect mine.”
Graphics credit: Jayne Riew
Village Square launches “The Asteroids Club”
The Asteroids Club is a new approach to communicating about the civic problems that polarize – and paralyze – us. (You know, the ones which are hurtling toward us through space and time at an alarming rate of speed.) The concept grew out of the field of moral psychology, which tells us that people are more likely to find common ground when they unite to fight common threats. Like any good club, we’ve got a motto: “I’ll help you deflect your asteroid, if you help me deflect mine.”
