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This is not about making a new script or vocabulary. It is about contextual and transcontextual shifts. Ecologies move in inter-relational ways — Bateson said this 80 years ago, and his father, William Bateson, said it in 1888. Indigenous cultures have been saying this for thousands of years.

We are entering an age of increasingly unpredictable climatological change. We are entering an age when we must remember that the most important ideas may not belong to human beings, but to bacteria and insects and entire geographies.

Without a long-term vision of the world we desire… how can we distinguish scaffolding from foundation? How do we know which paths lead toward liberation, and which perpetuate the status quo? This is my frustration with the majority of the “post-monetary” discourse. In general, I’m not interested in cryptocurrencies: I’m not interested in replacing... See more

Once again, I am coming back to the mutual relationship between words and thought. In order to create the possibility of relationships and systems based on human needs, a consciousness shift may be absolutely necessary, and changing our language may just be the path, even if I don’t quite yet see exactly how it could go there. As we learn to speak... See more

This post asserts something so seemingly obvious as to be unworthy of articulating. We all have bodies, and these billions of bodies make up the basis of what we call ‘the economy.’ The economy is not statistical numbers. The economy is not charts or acronyms like CPI, GDP, or the S&P. (No charts were used in the making of this post…we’ll save... See more