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Our current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more
Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf
But that is not how the mind works. First of all, the mind doesn’t truly care about “success”; it just wants to feel loved and then it mistakenly assumes that that is what “success” will bring. Second, whether or not your life feels “lame” is really a matter of how earnestly you pay attention to the world, rather than how much “success” you’ve achieved. In other words: “success”, in the conventional sense, can be completely decoupled from your happiness, and so can failure.
“Cultivating mental clarity is all about your willingness to give up logical thinking and avoid getting trapped in a spider’s web of words and thoughts”, Monk Tsuda tells us as we settle on to the straw-matted floor in as close to a lotus position as we can physically manage.
For more than a decade, I’ve been... See more
instagram.comManifesto for Black Urban Planners, Architects, Artists, Activists, Designers, and Leaders
Black urban planners, architects, artists, activists, designers, and leaders have created a manifesto to guide their work of protecting and creating Black spaces, centered on principles such as deep listening, celebrating Black joy, and reckoning with the past.
LinkWithout 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
Brian Stout • Money, the gift economy, and belonging
generosity and
Como Orchards 2044 is an imagined future for a real ranch in Montana where Frank Lloyd Wright designed a community back in 1908. This “newsletter” from the year 2044 is a dream of what could unfold over the next twenty years if we choose a more regenerative way of being on this planet based on many people’s real and imagined ideas.
