Keeping the Smoke Hole Open: Excerpt
By Martin Shaw, Resilience.org
The mess out there is because of a mess in here. Inner and outer talk to each other. That’s the truth of things. Let’s get to work.
Tag: cultural stories
What We Encourage
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings
I’ll also point out that while one set of choices is promoted, reinforced, and made as convenient as possible, the other set is shamed, challenged, or made as dangerous as possible.
The Collective Consciousness of Humanity Has Cancer: The Prognosis is Dire!
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
The temperature of our planet is rising, and I’m not talking about global warming. I’m talking about the rising social anger temperature and its potential to create a social, civil, and economic collapse.
Running out of Ice on the Moon. The Path of “Resource Depletion” in the Memesphere
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Thomas Huxley said that "it is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." It is a sentence that describes the cycle of ideas, -- call them memes -- which tend to have a life-cycle similar to that of living creatures. They are born, grow, and disappear.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 32 Kim Stanley Robinson
By Vicki Robin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Resilience.org
Kim Stanley Robinson is widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. From his perspective, he answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The bear, the tiger, and the trade unionist
By Julia Steinberger, Medium
Rather than believe in the fake embrace of predatory capitalism, where vast crimes are supposed to benefit humanity, we should believe in each other and ourselves, our capacity to work for each other, and ultimately win against this predation.
Commons and Enclosures
By Patrick Noble, Towards a Convivial Economy
Yes. Cultures are what people do. The future is created by present actions – for better and for worse. Targets, achievements, status… can change nothing.
The Edges of the Earth
By Dawid Juraszek, Dark Mountain Project
If human ingenuity were a story, one of its main motifs would be transportation. Creatures of land by birth, we have transcended our limitations, reaching across air and water, beyond our own biosphere.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 29 Vicki Robin
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
The third set of What Could Possibly Go Right? kicks off with host Vicki Robin reflecting on past episodes, sharing her motivation for creating this series, and revealing what she hopes to find as we embark on a new set of interviews.
Sowing the seed of the future
By Andrew Curry, the next wave
Visionary fiction-writing is a practice we can use to imagine and prepare for the future together, to generate the ideas that we want to see more of in the world
Review of New Maps, the latest deindustrial fiction quarterly
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
As its name alludes, this visionary new fiction quarterly seeks to challenge our current mental maps of the future.
The Good Ancestor: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
A book that inspires reading is a good book. A book that inspires thought is a better book. A book that inspires action is the best book of all. The Good Ancestor is the best book of all.