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the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
illuminating book Don’t Even Think About It, George Marshall
George Monbiot • Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Monbiot compares the state of today’s global food system with the global financial system of 2008. According to his research, there has been an incredible corporate consolidation that massively increased the vulnerability of the system, stating that, for example, just four companies control 90% of the global grain trade.
Dense Discovery • 241 / The emergence of ‘the global standard diet’
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
The belief that human behaviour can be perfectly modelled, predicted and controlled entrains as a consequence the collapse of equitable relations between individuals and trust in institutions, and the substitution of algorithmic certainty for any semblance of participatory, democratic society. There is no appeal to collective, contestable decision-
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
As the filmmaker Adam Curtis told The Economist, ‘People are frightened of instability. But the job of a good politician is to give them a story that says “yes this is risky, but it’s also thrilling and it might just lead to something extraordinary.”’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
