What Are Some Potential Action Options To Consider?

I know that there are already some powerful actions taken around the table: e.g.

• Taylor Owen is writing a book on these topics. So is Chris Kutarna. How can we support those efforts?
• Nadia and Faisal are reshaping the landscape of Arabic discourse by translating important books from English into Arabic-how can we support that?
• Some of you have positions of influence in media and politics-how can we be helpful to you, as sources of information and insight on these issues?

Start at tough conversation about "Hotel Canada"?

One of the dangers of living in a society that has "moved past" its European colonialism and is now "reconciling" with First Nations is that the people who honestly haven't "moved past" or honestly aren't reconciling don't say so publicly. They say so privately. Or they mask their thoughts about citizenship and identity behind more accepted topics of public discourse, like job security or crime. Can we proactively create a healthy conversation about the ugliness inside ourselves before things get ugly?

Launch some big, new engine of civility in our society?

many of the ways that we used to develop a shared sense of civility are disappearing. There is no mandatory military service (which, whatever our views on that, did serve to socialize a diverse cohort of society into a sense of civic duty). Religion is a much weaker shared experience than it used to be. "Civics" is being crowded out of compulsory education, to make room for more math and science and so on. And even compulsory education is becoming less and less shared, and more and more personalized. That is certainly the case in the information we consume via social media. "Public spaces" are being taken over by market forces. (Sport stadiums, which used to be named after publicly important people and places, are now named by corporations that buy the naming rights.) Decades of suburban development thinned out the marketplaces where we used to meet. Amazon Delivery has emptied them entirely. And so on. Is it time to create a big new engine of community feeling and responsibility toward one another, where we meet across the boundaries of social media and economic class and race and language that divide us? What might that engine be? And how does it avoid being parochial or paternalistic?

Let's be "roofless" in our thinking about possible actions.