The Things We Take for Granted
In this week’s Frankly, Nate shares reflections on what we take for granted in life at multiple scales: from personal health to meaningful work to relative ecological stability.
Society
Toward Socio-ecological Markets
We must move from a finance that demands private benefits at scale, as purely transactional and extractive, to finance systems grounded in particular places and cooperative relationships, all closely aligned with living systems.
Normalcy Bias – A Latent Hazard
Cavalier and dismissive behaviour in the face of overwhelming evidence of impending danger is something which characteristically emerges from ‘normalcy bias’ (defined as the “tendency to underestimate the possibility of disaster and believe that life will continue as normal, even in the face of significant threats or crises”).
Venezuela and Greenland: ‘Smash-and-grab’ diplomacy in the age of scarcity
As the natural resources that the modern world depends on become more and more scarce, countries will more and more resort to openly violent methods to secure access to those resources.
The Language of Sustainability & the Power of Words
And you, fellow reader, what other words would you delete or add to sustain this conversation — and more importantly, the very cause for which it stands?
Coming Together in the Great Turning: Excerpt
Realizing a vision of the Beloved Community requires that we practice beloved community daily, contributing to greater safety, dignity, and belonging for everyone.
Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance
In the face of capitalist economics and states intent on asserting their dominance and control, commoners have a mindset that is more expansive, experimental, self-reliant and localist than the market/state dares to imagine.
How We’ve ‘Drugified’ Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age
In this episode, Nate is joined by New York Times bestselling author and professor of psychiatry, Anna Lembke, to explore how modern society has “drugified” our lived experience through digital media, processed foods, and instant gratification, resulting in an environment that propagates addiction.
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance
Bioregionalism offers a practical, politically accessible space for addressing climate change, social inequality, the eclipse of democracy, out-of-control oligarchs, and capitalist growth.
Ditching Dualism #7: Objections
Why is strict materialism a hard sell for many in our dualist-dominated culture?
Growing the Nourishment We Seek
The garden is a profoundly simple setting for reconnecting with the earth, with one another, and with ourselves.
The Western Mythos – Our Monster’s Spawn: Part I
Yes, the West has been subjected to extensive critique. But I will show that such critiques rarely reach its core nature and are more often absorbed, neutralized, and ultimately survived by the system itself.
