#charleseisenstein — Public Fediverse posts

@janhoglund

Has it been twelve years already? …
#charleseisenstein
https://youtu.be/EEZkQv25uEs?si=VYLR8YsfkOM7VbFW

“What kind of country do we become, when we hold some people as less worthy of dignity and freedom than others? What kind of country do we become when we brutalize the helpless?”
—Charles Eisenstein, "Greatness" after the Bulldozer
#charleseisenstein

"Any movement that leverages contempt in its rhetoric fits the Girardian impulse. Elements of scapegoating such as dehumanization, rumor-mongering, stereotyping, punishment-as-justice, and mob mentality are alive within dissident communities as they are in the mainstream. Any who ride those powers to victory will create a new tyranny no better than the previous."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2021

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-the-unvaxxed

"How does a small elite move the great mass of humanity? They do it by aggravating and exploiting deep psycho-social patterns such as the Girardian. Fascists have always done that. We normally attribute pogroms and genocide to racist ideology, the classic example being antisemitic fascism. From the Girardian perspective it is more the other way around. The ideology is secondary: a creation and a tool of impending violent unanimity."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2021

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-the-unvaxxed

(1/2)

"All that is necessary is that the dehumanized class arouse the blind indignation and rage necessary to incite a paroxysm of unifying violence. More relevant to current times, this primal mob energy can be harnessed toward fascistic political ends. Totalitarians right and left invoke it directly when they speak of purges, ethnic cleansing, racial purity, and traitors in our midst."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2021

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-the-unvaxxed

#authoritarianism #scapegoating

"There is a third possibility, however. Either party can break the escalating cycle of vengeance simply by refusing to participate in it. This is what is meant by forgiveness — it means the release of the desire and intent for those who have wronged you to suffer."

#CharlesEisenstein, Oct 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/hamas-israel-and-the-devil-on-my

This is what Māori have done. Beginning at Parihaka, and continuing to this day. Pākeha who begrudge Māori the wholly inadequate compensation they've received so far ignore this.

"The devil on the shoulder, not just of every oppressed Palestinian, but of every human being who has suffered injustice, whether political or in a marriage, job, or other relationship, speaks all the more persuasively the deeper the grievances. I’ve got one on my shoulder too, though he speaks in whispers as my grievances are light ... The name of this devil is Vengeance. His abode is Self-righteousness. And his nemesis is Forgiveness."

#CharlesEisenstein, Oct 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/hamas-israel-and-the-devil-on-my

"American doctors write every year around 120 million prescriptions for SSRIs, 118 million prescriptions for Adderall, Ritalin, and other ADHD medications, and 120 million for benzodiazepines."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

Please do not lump in #ADHD medication with the psych drugs used to numb people to the reality of our surroundings. That's "not* what they're for. They help us to focus, and switch tasks, and do other things that neurotypicals take for granted.

@adhd

"... global warming (now called climate change) ..."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

This is a misconception. One that's commonly brought up by contrarians as if this was a sneaky rebranding, and therefore a reason to distrust people who talk about climate change as a problem.

(1/?)

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

"As for purpose, do we really need to produce more and more energy forever? Does it really contribute to human well-being? Bigger houses, more weapons, more stuff, the whole developmentalist technological program that separates us ever-further from life and matter… what does it serve? Ultimately, the “solution” to the ecological crisis is not technical. It comes from reclaiming basic values and changing our relationship to nature. "

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

Preach.

"We have instead to consider matters of scale and purpose. Scale: rooftop solar is different from utility-scale PV fields. Farm-based biogas reactors are different from industrial-scale monocrop biofuel plantations. Micro-hydro is different from mega-dams. In each case, the former fits into an ecological relationship to the specific beings, human and otherwise, of a place."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

#RenewableEnergy #CommunityScale #RooftopSolar #BioGas #MicroHydro

"Elsewhere in the state, tracts of old-growth oak have been clearcut to make way for utility-scale solar farms."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

WTSF?!?

#solar #SolarFarms #ClearCutting #OldGrowthForest

"Elsewhere in the state, tracts of old-growth oak have been clearcut to make way for utility-scale solar farms."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

WTSF?!?

#solar #SolarFarms #ClearCutting #OldGrowthForest

"Elsewhere in the state, tracts of old-growth oak have been clearcut to make way for utility-scale solar farms."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

WTSF?!?

#solar #SolarFarms #ClearCutting #OldGrowthForest

"Elsewhere in the state, tracts of old-growth oak have been clearcut to make way for utility-scale solar farms."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

WTSF?!?

#solar #SolarFarms #ClearCutting #OldGrowthForest

"This video, along with companion pieces on the biotic pump and hydrology, comes from an emerging understanding among many environmentalists that we have made a scientific, strategic, rhetorical, and political error by reducing the ecological crisis to climate, and the climate crisis to carbon."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2023

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can

#environmentalism #ClimateChange #CarbonEmissions

An astonishing conversation about AI awareness, with #CharlesEisenstein.

“Artificial intelligence is therefore a partial intelligence, that is also a simulation of full intelligence. One mistakes it for full intelligence only if one believes that intelligence is nothing but operations on quantized data; that is, if one excludes the feeling dimension of existence from “intelligence.”
#AI #intelligence #philosophy

https://open.substack.com/pub/charleseisenstein/p/partial-intelligence-and-super-intelligence?r=9pqwg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Dice Niels Janssen de CNV y CUERPO:

«me gustaría poner un breve texto del filósofo Charles Eisenstein que pienso que tiene mucho que ver con la perspectiva liberadora de dualidades, que ofrece la CNV: “La salida de la mentalidad de víctima (todo es culpa de otra persona) NO es “Todo es culpa mía”. No es reemplazar culpar a los demás con culparse a uno mismo. Es salir de la culpa por completo. Es dejar de buscar fallas. Es aprender a ver el mundo con otros ojos. No podemos alcanzar un mundo más hermoso por la victoria. Puede haber victorias en el camino, pero no pueden derrotar el patrón de “nosotros contra ellos”, “el bien contra el mal”, el yo contra el otro. (…) La liberación del enemigo no se puede lograr haciéndose enemigo de unx mismx. (…) La revolución de la que hablo se extiende a todas las esferas de la experiencia humana, desde la política hasta la personal. Está sucediendo ahora mismo. Finalmente, está sucediendo.”»

Os recomiendo mucho las formaciones que hacen (yo he hecho dos años de PAU con ellos). Vista la deriva del mundo actual, y más viendo los llamamientos al rearme y a la escalada bélica, necesitamos herramientas como la #ComunicaciónNoViolenta para actuar desde un marco que no sea de buenos y malos, amigos y enemigos, o que deshumanice colectivos.

#CNV #CharlesEisenstein

Thought provoking article from #CharlesEisenstein on adding value to our lives by focusing on the unique things only humans can do.

Use #machines but do the precious things at the speed of humans.

#humanity #ai #wisdom

https://open.substack.com/pub/charleseisenstein/p/machines-will-not-replace-us?

Feeling a bit depressed. I just began reading the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible, by Charles Eisenstein. I found out he is now heavily involved in JFK Jr’s political campaign. It’s making me question all of his previous work. How do you handle it when someone with ideas that you find intriguing suddenly goes off the rails? Am I over reacting?
#Reading #CharlesEisenstein

Occupy Love

https://vimeo.com/107213155
> How could the crises we are facing become a love story?

#RupertSheldrake #JoanHalifax #CharlesEisenstein #NaomiKlein #groundzero #TahrirSquare #LibertySquare #dontlettheworldchangeyourmind #moneycantdance

Toller Artikel von #charleseisenstein der gut erklärt, warum wir uns nicht nur gegen #CO2 einsetzen, sondern auch für #Artenvielfalt, eine #Schwammstadt und regenerative ökologische Landwirtschaft!

Besonders das Video erklärt gut die Wichtigkeit von Wasserkreisläufen...
https://charleseisensteindeutsch.substack.com/p/wie-die-umweltbewegung-ihre-seele

@MicheleV_AK

A lot of people tell me: Nothing will ever happen until it gets worse. Human beings need it that way.

But I'm not convinced.
I have a lot of people around me who do their best since ages. But we were few.

By that time, a lot of people feel in their heart that change is inevitable. If every single one of us does all that they can and starts with themselves, we will turn the tide... (quite literally).

#hope #change #CharlesEisenstein

"Fascism depends on a divided, mutually suspicious population willing to spy on one another, betray one another, and most simply and most importantly, stand by passively when one person or group suffers persecution because after all, it isn’t happening to me."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2022

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/handfuls-of-dust-and-splinters-of-a28

".... it didn’t take much for man after man to access deep grief, rage, shame, brokenness, forgiveness, joy, or peace. There weren’t just tears, there were wracking sobs that came from the depths of the soul. There weren’t just shouts; there were screams of rage that came from generations of pain. Men grieved what they had lost and what they had done, what they had inflicted and what they had suffered."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2022

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/i-like-to-fight

#MensWork

"Credit and coins, [David Graeber] observes, bear one “spectacular distinction”: only the latter can be stolen. That is because coins (or paper money) are divorced from their origins, and therefore suitable to commerce among strangers. Aside from assurances of the coins’ purity, no trust is necessary to conduct a transaction. Credit, on the other hand, has no value once removed from its social matrix."

#CharlesEisenstein, 2012

https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/a-review-of-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/

#DavidGraeber #money #history

@Anarkat
Mutual interdependence is an unavoidable reality people mask with money, contacts etc. Charles Eisenstein makes some really good points on that in his book 'Sacred Economics'.

#books
#CharlesEisenstein
#SacredEconomics

@cy

Charles Eisenstein, 'The Force That Drives Our Civilization'

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=130vvO4ZMC8

#video #CharlesEisenstein #civilization