2022-05-27 Micah/Jerry Co-Writing
Disorder Afflicts the Land! Caused by the powerful and nefarious forces of people who say there's no such thing as society, who tell us that our highest purpose in life is to fight like stray dogs over a dustbin.
The heroes of the story, us, we'll revolt against this disorder. We will fight those nefarious forces by building rich, engaging, inclusive and generous communities, and, in doing so, we will restore harmony to the land.
George Monbiot: how do we get out of this mess?
The new political story that could change everything (2019 xlnt)
What Will Replace Neoliberalism?
2021-08-12 OGM Check-in Call
2021-09-27 FJB Call (California! Booo!)
2022-02-17 Group Discussion About The Week, Part 2
2023-10-12 OGM Call: Narrative and Storytelling
Among the very few values that both the left and the right share are belonging and community.
Are We Entering a New Political Era? (xlnt)
Breaking the Spell of Loneliness (2016 album)
Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000)
Despair is a state we fall into when our imagination fails.
Disorder afflicts the land!
Everything you know about the British Empire is a lie
Humans Are Altruistic Cooperators
Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?
Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?
Might Coronavirus Tip Us into More Functional Economic and Social Systems?
Monbiot on the Pro-Putin Left
Monbiot's Four Observations
My Beef with George Monbiot
Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Migration: George Monbiot in conversation with Verso
Patriotism Keeps Us from Knowing Ourselves. It Allows Us to Ignore the Bad Parts.
Registry of Interests – George Monbiot (wow)
Takeouts of Monbiot Tipping Point Video
The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next? (xlnt)
The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism
The only Thing that Can Replace a Story Is a Story
The Politics of Belonging
There is no such thing as "the news". At any time, millions of events and trends are happening around the world. Editors select a tiny handful of them and declare them newsworthy. (thread)
Valueism: the next evolution of capitalism and an all-embracing alternative to Neoliberalism
We are a society of altruists. But we are governed by psychopaths.
We have been induced by politicians, economists and journalists to accept a vicious ideology of extreme competition and individualism
We need to build a community based on bridging networks, not bonding networks.
We Need to Change Our Narratives (scripts, metaphors, framing)
What Is the Next Societal Stack?
When we have no story that explains the present and describes the future, hope evaporates.
Why the Weird are Destined to Change the World
You can see a lot of politics as a search for belonging.
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