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The Upheaval
- chaos is often used as a means of pushing back. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, trust in global institutions has declined, economic volatility has heightened and populist politicians have seen rampant success. Chaos is the status quo in a volatile cultural climate.
from Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now) by Lore Oxford
Keely Adler added
- Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena. But there is more. What they really do is transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about. In the wake of a revolution, ideas that had been considered veritably lunatic fringe quickly become the accepted currency of debate.
from A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber by David Graeber
Tara McMullin added
- the world is changing fundamentally due to several major factors: the shift in geological time from Holocene to Anthropocene, the impact of the internet and smart phones on the infosphere and lifeworld, capitalism running out of viable frontiers and being a complex adaptive system that has lost its ability to adapt, widespread governance failures, ... See more
from Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge by Jonathan Rowson
Stuart Evans added