#buildingalternatives — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #buildingalternatives, aggregated by home.social.
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The commons were never theory – It was always practice
There’s no profit in this for me, the more useful question is: who benefits from #blocking these projects? When people ask “what’s the agenda?” they look for who is trying to benefit from building something. But the better question is who gains when alternatives never get built. The #openweb has always been about creating spaces outside the usual incentives. That threatens people whose power depends on keeping things closed, controlled, and dependent. The commercialization of the […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-commons-were-never-a-theory-it-was-always-practice/
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Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess
This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/
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Most of us who are paying attention arrive at the same questions eventually — what can I do, where do I start, how do I prepare when I don't even know what's coming? There's a reframe in this week's anchor that changes the shape of those questions completely. The not-knowing turns out not to be the obstacle it appeared to be. The beginning is closer than it looks.
This week's reflection @ https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/building-the-lifeboat-is-the-lifeboat-9b75618c2775
#Polycrisis #BuildingAlternatives #Resilience #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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Most of us have felt it for a while — that queasy sense that things aren't level anymore, that the official reassurances don't add up, that the people running things are performing confidence rather than actually having it. What's harder to name is what to do when authorities do nothing, and no one is saying what you already know. This week's anchor is written for exactly that moment.
This week's reflection @ https://bit.ly/4lsv0XK