I’d like to propose that we are already fighting World War III. We are not merely getting perilously close or or waiting for the other shoe to drop. We are in it. We are in fact neck deep in the next “War to End All Wars.” Allow me to explain. In 1740, Jacob Dickert began experimenting with […]
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The emergency is about the urgency to act. The crisis is about the need to transform. The meta-crisis is the tenacity of our inertia. Continue reading on Medium »
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by Manish Srivastava Here is an application story of the U process and Social Presencing Theater in cross sectoral innovation in the Law and Justice sector in India. This is part of a transformation journey that was initiated by Agami India in July 2019 by convening around 20 leading social innovators from the Law & Justice
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A commentary on Venkatesh Rao’s article: The Internet of Beefs I’d like take a crack at a neologism invented by Venkatesh Rao called The Internet of beefs in his article of the same title. I’d also like to balance his idea of a beef only player, with a salad only player—to contrast the aggressive vs the
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Global Climate Action II: The Power of Direct Democracy In October of 2018, a small group of activists in Bavaria, Germany’s most conservative state, submitted a petition called “Save the Bees” to the state government. The petition called for 30% of agricultural land in Bavaria to meet organic standards by 2030, for 10% of green
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Global Climate Action III: The Power of Consciousness The first two articles in this three-part series explored two blind spots in the response to global climate change: soil and democracy. The third one is consciousness. Figure 11 — Leverage Point No. 3: Consciousness In January, I spent a weekend with 300 biodynamic farmers in northern Germany. The
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A Simple Structure to Hold a New Microsolidarity Community Last week I published the latest story in my Microsolidarity series, explaining how to start a new mutual aid community (a “Congregation”). That chapter was exclusively focussed on the initiation process: where do you start? For this chapter, I want to advance the clock a few months.
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3 Essential Pillars For a New Mutual Aid Community Weaving image by Wei-Cheng Wu on Unsplash I published the Microsolidarity proposal a year ago and really struck a chord with people. I’m overdue to give folks an update, and there’s really a lot of exciting news. So first I’ll give a quick recap, then I’ll share
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Hadot’s historical work includes treatments of pre-Socratic philosophy, Platonism and Aristotelianism, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the Middle Ages, and the modern era. I have selected only a handful of examples from these periods in order to give the reader a sense for the varieties of ascetic practice present within each tradition, and to show
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The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger A sick information ecology We’ve had a basis for disinformation for a long time. We’ve had rivalrous dynamics for a long time. The rivalrous dynamics are a basis by which we can get ahead by war and by killing somebody else or lying to them, or ruining the commons.
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