This conference paper explores a framework for collective action aimed at enhancing citizen participation in democracy, suggesting meaningful implications.
Abstract (Theoretical Advancement): This extract documents the opening presentation in The Visible Mind research sequence. The extract formulates a structural critique contrasting extractive wealth capital with social capital, framed as Neo-Feudalism versus Common Good 2.0. The intervention framework proposes a four-part scaffold for collective action: Universal Education, Citizen Designers, New Democracy, and Systems Change. The argument posits that establishing specific future-proof cognitive literacies (applied creativity, critical reasoning, resilience) is the prerequisite for equipping citizens for state-level democratic participation. This is the origin artefact of the sequence. The material diagnosed here sets up the subsequent conference papers and the two working papers (WP-2026-01, WP-2026-02). A companion entry (Visual Rhetoric Appendix, same conference) documents the early practitioner methodology; the contrast between its emotive register and the plainer analytical register of the 2025–26 material offers a visible record of how the work developed.
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