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Consumerism was an experiment that failed. It led us down a dead end. Only by letting go – or, rather, only by ripping ourselves free – can we transcend it. 
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The 3rd Industrial Revolution is not really limited to computers or the internet. The revolution is expressed through the networking of everything
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE CULTURE & IDEAS P2P COLLABORATION P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS P2P SUBJECTIVITY P2P TECHNOLOGYcolle
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Interfaces for Empathy’ explores the societal shift towards the consciousness of human species as a balanced part of the ecosystem we live at.
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Are people not united? Do they distrust each other? You don’t need deep, introspection: you need to distribute responsibilities and get to work
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What made you into an environmentalist? Think back over your life to an event that inspired you with care for some special part of our planet
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"Things have to get worse before they can get better." To scratch this kind of talk is to reveal an old heresy beneath the veneer of common sense.
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The following book review describes the shift from traditional tribal societies, which was based on the trust of knowing each other personally in small communities, to the shift towards big centralized empires, which required a common fear of God to create trust amongst strangers. Contining with such a evolutonary perspectve we could posit the phase …
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This is excerpted from a book originally published 30 years ago, by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. Dieter Duhm: “Democracy is a question neither of verbal commitment nor of the outer political form of a system. Rather it is a question mainly of the emotional state and structure of drives in …
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Article: Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains. By Melanie Swan. Interesting take that does not necessarily a right-libertarian approach to blockchain technology. Here is the summary followed by two excerpts. Summary: “There is something new and fundamental happening in the world which could be the start of the next enlightenment period. The core of …
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What would individualism and collectivity look like outside the logic of equivalence, i.e. comparing individuals based on external criteria, which was introduced in western modernity ? This book looks at the working of individuality and collectivity amongst Amazonian natives. * Book: Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia By Harry Walker. University …
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In-depth conversation about the role of love in the engaged life, a conversation with David Kim for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Watch the video here:
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We featured Majorie Kelly’s similar distinction regarding ownership, but Seth Godin argues that it is also a mindset: “For generations, places with significant oil production have developed a different culture than other places. This extraction mindset occurs in environments where profits are taken from a captive resource. It doesn’t matter if it’s coal, tickets or …
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A summary from the Commons Strategies Group recent event in Berlin featuring videos with David Bollier, Michel Bauwens and Silke Helfrich
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COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ECONOMY AND BUSINESS INTEGRAL THEORY P2P BOOKS P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P SUBJECTIVITY P2P THEORY PEER PRODUCTION PEER PROPERTY
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek have published a manifesto for the next human age under the title Inventing the Future: P…
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Biology, which has made so many efforts to chase emotions from nature since the 19th century, is rediscovering feeling as the foundation of life.
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As long as grief is not fully experienced, the reality and gravity of climate change won't feel real even if we're intellectually persuaded.
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Mainstream neoconservative integral theory predicts a next state of civilisation which is hyper-individualist and is a reaction against collectivist excesses
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It is not often that one can encounter an author who is deeply read in both liberal, marxist and even libertarian literature, embracing Marx AND Ayn Rand, and claiming to show an underlyng unity. Please note that the underlying ideas for a technological utopia are not the ideas of the P2P Foundation, as we must …
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A new society could arise on the same technological base that is now still predominantly destroying the social bonds. The digital networks might be the prime catalysts in the transformation from today’s consumer society into what he calls a ‘society of contribution’. This is a strongly recommended interview to get to know the otherwise difficult …
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1. “It is clear that capitalism as a civilization is already over, and it knows it. The ruling class of our time knows it can make no claim to rule for anyone but themselves. Hence their instinct to hide from us, to spy on us, to arm and fortify themselves, and to plunder and loot …
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What we do to any part of nature, so, inescapably, we do to ourselves. The current climate change narrative is but a first step toward that understanding.
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Excerpted from LISA DEPIANO: “I came to permaculture via community organizing in the global justice movement and drew many connections between what I had learned about being a good organizer and the permaculture principles. The following is a list of 10 permaculture principles with an example of social permaculture in action. This was developed in …
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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