#interdependence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #interdependence, aggregated by home.social.
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https://thistlenfern.org/@wendythedruid/116530892882294571
I rattled this off last night pissed off, but if anyone has insight, please share.
#Polyamory #ThroupleLife #QueerRelationships #PolyCommunity #AutonomyInLove #NonMonogamy #LGBTQLove #PolyAwareness #RelationshipAnarchy #ChosenFamily #TransJoy #QueerJoy #PolyValid #Interdependence #LoveWithoutRules
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Wisdom comes from considering our interdependent nature, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=auSAmxuq4xyYZwJj #mentalhealth #wisdom #interdependence #nature #compassion
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The fair share footprint starts from a simple observation: we share this planet with eight billion other humans and trillions of other living beings, and we depend on that web for air, food, and water. That's not an ethical position — it's a description of conditions. What follows from it is. The Farmastery is an experiment in organising around that fact in practice.
This week's reflection @ https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7 #BenKadel #LifeboatAcademy #FairShareEthics #Interdependence
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This moment can’t be understood in isolation.
Prosperity can hide deep forgetting. Seen over time, the unraveling we’re living looks less like random failure and more like a long-delayed correction — ecological, moral, and relational.
The question isn’t whether rebalancing will occur, but whether we participate in the learning or resist it until the cost grows.
Full reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/blessing-or-curse-20eb1cdc9a36#BlessingOrCurse #CollectiveSensemaking #MoralEcology #Interdependence #SystemsThinking
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This moment can’t be understood in isolation.
Prosperity can hide deep forgetting. Seen over time, the unraveling we’re living looks less like random failure and more like a long-delayed correction — ecological, moral, and relational.
The question isn’t whether rebalancing will occur, but whether we participate in the learning or resist it until the cost grows.
Full reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/blessing-or-curse-20eb1cdc9a36#BlessingOrCurse #CollectiveSensemaking #MoralEcology #Interdependence #SystemsThinking
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This moment can’t be understood in isolation.
Prosperity can hide deep forgetting. Seen over time, the unraveling we’re living looks less like random failure and more like a long-delayed correction — ecological, moral, and relational.
The question isn’t whether rebalancing will occur, but whether we participate in the learning or resist it until the cost grows.
Full reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/blessing-or-curse-20eb1cdc9a36#BlessingOrCurse #CollectiveSensemaking #MoralEcology #Interdependence #SystemsThinking
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This moment can’t be understood in isolation.
Prosperity can hide deep forgetting. Seen over time, the unraveling we’re living looks less like random failure and more like a long-delayed correction — ecological, moral, and relational.
The question isn’t whether rebalancing will occur, but whether we participate in the learning or resist it until the cost grows.
Full reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/blessing-or-curse-20eb1cdc9a36#BlessingOrCurse #CollectiveSensemaking #MoralEcology #Interdependence #SystemsThinking
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Modern life often trains us into a posture of solitary strain — as if everything depends on our effort alone.
Unlearning begins when we release the reflex to bear the world solo and remember ourselves as part of a living system.
#VandanaShiva #LearningToUnlearn #EcologicalThinking #Interdependence
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#Buddhism's #ecological #philosophy frames #environmental care as #ethical imperative rather than mere conservation. Through #interdependence (#paṭiccasamuppāda), non-harming (#ahiṃsā), and the #Bodhisattva ideal, it extends #compassion to all sentient beings affected by #ClimateChange. #Impermanence (#anicca) invites #mindful engagement, not passivity, distinguishing natural cycles from #anthropogenic destruction.
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_the_environment/
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#Buddhism's #ecological #philosophy frames #environmental care as #ethical imperative rather than mere conservation. Through #interdependence (#paṭiccasamuppāda), non-harming (#ahiṃsā), and the #Bodhisattva ideal, it extends #compassion to all sentient beings affected by #ClimateChange. #Impermanence (#anicca) invites #mindful engagement, not passivity, distinguishing natural cycles from #anthropogenic destruction.
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_the_environment/
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#Buddhism's #ecological #philosophy frames #environmental care as #ethical imperative rather than mere conservation. Through #interdependence (#paṭiccasamuppāda), non-harming (#ahiṃsā), and the #Bodhisattva ideal, it extends #compassion to all sentient beings affected by #ClimateChange. #Impermanence (#anicca) invites #mindful engagement, not passivity, distinguishing natural cycles from #anthropogenic destruction.
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_the_environment/
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#Buddhism's #ecological #philosophy frames #environmental care as #ethical imperative rather than mere conservation. Through #interdependence (#paṭiccasamuppāda), non-harming (#ahiṃsā), and the #Bodhisattva ideal, it extends #compassion to all sentient beings affected by #ClimateChange. #Impermanence (#anicca) invites #mindful engagement, not passivity, distinguishing natural cycles from #anthropogenic destruction.
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_the_environment/
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#Buddhism's #ecological #philosophy frames #environmental care as #ethical imperative rather than mere conservation. Through #interdependence (#paṭiccasamuppāda), non-harming (#ahiṃsā), and the #Bodhisattva ideal, it extends #compassion to all sentient beings affected by #ClimateChange. #Impermanence (#anicca) invites #mindful engagement, not passivity, distinguishing natural cycles from #anthropogenic destruction.
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_the_environment/
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Interdependence Themes for Independence Day #hope #insight #inspiration #interdependence #webstories https://muz4now.com/web-stories/interdependence-themes-for-independence-day
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"The forest has no concept of ownership. Only interdependence. That is its secret strength." L. Nault
Follow the words that move you. Read my books.
#forestwisdom #interdependence #nature #ecosystem #mutualaid
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Out now: #HSR 50.4 - Varieties of #Refiguration I
On Multiple #Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the #Economy. (Nina Baur, Elettra Griesi, Lara Espeter, Florence Eyok, Elmar Kulke & Lynn Sibert)The contributions in this HSR Special Issue analyze multiple spatialities in three key areas: the refiguration of economic regions, the refiguration of #spaces and #infrastructures, and the refiguration of translocal chains of #interdependence.
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“No man is an island, / Entire of itself; / Every man is a piece of the continent, / A part of the main.”*…
Individualism has been been a growing force in cultures around the world since the Enlightenment; it picked up momentum in the 20th century (c.f., e.g., Adam Curtis’ masterful Century of Self [and here]); and has become a– if not the— foundational concept in liberalism. But, Nils Gilman argues, the biological discovery of the holobiont gives the lie to “the autonomous individual” in a way that has massive implications not only for how we think about, but also how we govern ourselves…
We like to believe we end at our skin. This is the primary hallucination of modern political philosophy in the West, the foundational axiom upon which we have erected our laws, our economics, and our sense of self-worth. Philosophical liberalism imagines human individuals as discrete, bounded entities — monads moving through space, contained entirely within a fleshy envelope that separates “self” from “other.” This architectural model of the human being underpins the political concept of the autonomous liberal subject, just as it grounds the social scientific commitment to methodological individualism. It asserts that the basic unit of human reality is the singular actor, the “I” that thinks, chooses, and owns.
However, this model is a biological fiction. It is a map that corresponds to no territory found in nature. Over the last three decades the life sciences have undergone a quiet revolution that renders the classical liberal view of the subject not merely philosophical debatable, yet factually incorrect. The concept of the holobiont, coined by Adolf Meyer-Abich in 1943 but popularized in the anglophone world by Lynn Margulis in the 1990s, has shattered the idea of the unitary organism. We now know that every macro-organism is actually a dynamic ecosystem, a chimera composed of a host and billions of symbiotic microbes that function as a distinct, integrated biological unit. You are not a single entity. You are a walking coral reef, a plural assemblage of human and non-human cells negotiating a fragile, continuous existence. Roughly half the cells in your body are not human; they are bacterial, fungal, and viral. They do not merely hitch a ride. They digest your food, regulate your immune system, modulate your mood, and structure the development of your brain.
The implications of this biological reality for political theory are cataclysmic. The entire edifice of Liberalism, from Hobbes and Locke to modern libertarianism, rests on the assumption of the “atomic individual” — a sovereign state of one. This core concept of liberal political theory posits a world of separate, self-governing agents who enter into contracts and demand rights to protect their private sphere from intrusion. The liberal subject claims (and demands) to be walled off, protected, and kept clean of the influence of others.
Biology exposes this desire for total autonomy as not just false, but a death wish. In the logic of the holobiont, absolute immunity is not health; it is starvation. A body hermetically sealed against the “other” dies. Our physical existence requires constant contamination and collaboration with foreign agents. We cannot be “self-made” because we are constitutively “made-with.” Donna Haraway describes this shift as moving from autopoiesis (self-making) to sympoiesis (making-with). We do not precede our relationships; our relationships constitute us. If the political subject is physically constituted by “others,” the concept of self-sovereignty collapses. One cannot be the sole monarch of a kingdom occupied by foreign powers that provide the essential infrastructure for the kingdom’s survival…
[Gilman elaborates on the implications both for our political and management systems and for the social sciences that study them. And he explores why this new perspective is hard to internalize and embrace…]
The resistance to this holobiontic perspective is fierce because it is terrifying. As Rudyard Kipling observed (in a quote often misattributed to Nietzsche), “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” The autonomous liberal subject offers psychological safety. It promises control. It tells us that we are captains of our souls. Embracing the holobiont requires admitting that we are porous, vulnerable, and inextricably entangled with things we cannot control. It demands that we surrender the fantasy of the impermeable border. The skin is not a wall; it is a heavily trafficked interface. The state is not a fortress; it is a metabolic node in a planetary flow.
We are living through the friction between our laws and our biology. We legislate for individuals, yet we live as assemblages. We worship independence while our bodies are grounded in interdependence. The future of political theory cannot simply be an adjustment of liberal categories. It requires a fundamental ontological revision that starts with relation rather than separation. We must stop trying to protect the self from the world and begin understanding the self as a spatially intensified instantiation of the world.
Clinging to the myth of the autonomous subject is a massive act of collective denial. It represents a refusal to look at the microscope and see the legions teeming inside us. We construct our societies around a myth of being that does not correspond to biogeochemical reality. The cost of this error is everywhere apparent — in the degradation of our ecology, the polarization of our politics, and the isolation of our private lives. We try to seal ourselves off, creating sterile environments that make us sick, physically and politically. The holobiont offers a different path, one that acknowledges that to be one is always to be many. We are not solitary thinkers looking out at nature. We are nature looking at itself, through a lens made of billions of other lives. The sovereign is dead. Long live the swarm…
“The Sovereign Individual Does Not Exist,” from @nilsgilman.bsky.social.
Further complicating the issue: “Externalities, Rights, and the Problem of Knowledge,” from Cyril Hédoin:
Very short summary: This essay explains how the knowledge problem [the challenge of a central authority having the information needed to make rational decisions for a complex system like a society] applies to the definition of jurisdictional rights. Jurisdictional rights define spheres of individual sovereignty. Rights are appropriately defined if they internalize all potential externalities. However, individuals may disagree about what counts as an externality. This disagreement stems from individuals’ preferences, which are typically dispersed and local. I discuss various solutions to this problem, including the use of polycentricity...
[Image above: source]
* John Donne
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As we incorporate the interconnected, we might recall that it was on this date in 1859 that our perspective was shifted in a different kind of way: Charles Darwin published The Origin of the Species. Actually, on that day he published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life; the title was shortened to the one we know with the sixth edition in 1872.
Title page of the 1859 edition#charlesDarwin #culture #darwin #externalities #history #holobiont #individualism #individuality #interconnection #interdependence #philosophy #politics #reason #rights #society #theOriginOfTheSpecies
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Emotions aren’t intrusions into our thinking — they’re embodied signals of commitment.
They teach us what we value, where we’re connected, and how our moral intuition forms.An ecology of relationships starts with listening to the ones inside us.
#Interdependence #EmotionalWisdom #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #GiftEcology #dacherkeltner
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Nebraska team creates XR experience to reveal life’s interconnections. “‘MuMu: Worlds of Connection Chapter One’ is an experience where players learn about network science — the study of connections that are often complex and hard to see — by investigating how an apple farm thrives when humans, plants, animals and technology coexist in balance. Rather than […]
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate.
[Οἱ ἄνθρωποι γεγόνασιν ἀλλήλων ἕνεκεν: ἢ δίδασκε οὖν ἢ φέρε.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 59 (8.59) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hammond (2006)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8014…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #bearing #community #education #endurance #enlightenment #humanity #interdependence #meaningoflife #purpose #puttingupwith #society #teach #duty
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Who needs superheroes?
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"At a time when the superstructures of modern civilization seem terminally messed up, the authors of '#Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human' argue that we must start a new conversation about the nature of being and modern myths of the self. Anthropologist #ArturoEscobar, cultural studies scholar #MichalOsterweil, and biologist #KritiSharma draw on a diversity of sources – evolutionary science, cultural studies, art and poetry, Indigenous practices, wisdom traditions, and more – to explain the deep #interdependence of all living beings: a perspective can help us develop a new political economy and culture."
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From 2020 but I think it’ll be useful now: Mutual Aid Hub. “Find Mutual Aid Networks and other community self-support projects near you. Reach out to these groups directly via the map above to get involved, offer resources, or submit needs requests.”
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Each meme a breath in the same long prayer: rise, stir, rebuild, speak.
Words are medicine when they come from the ground up.
#WordsAsMedicine #Reciprocity #HealingTheLand #Resilience #Interdependence #Listening #Restoration #LivingLanguage #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy -
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
He who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him, is still more mistaken.
[Celui qui croit pouvoir trouver en soi-même de quoi se passer de tout le monde se trompe fort; mais celui qui croit qu’on ne peut se passer de lui se trompe encore davantage.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶201 (1665-1678) [pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶93]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #LaRochefoucauld #absence #autonomy #dependence #dowithout #independence #indispensability #interdependence #necessity #selfsufficiency
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#Bodhicitta, the "#awakening mind", is central to #Mahāyāna #Buddhism. It unites #compassion (#karuna) and #wisdom (#prajna), motivating practitioners to seek #enlightenment for all beings. Unlike conventional #ethics, bodhicitta is rooted in #interdependence and non-dual awareness, making Buddhist #altruism unique.
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-31-bodhicitta/
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Greetings, #Mastodon! I'm #newhere :)
"In order to #change an existing paradigm you do not #struggle to try and change the problematic model. You #create a new model and make the old one obsolete."
"The #purpose of our lives is to add #value to the people of this generation and those that follow." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
#smallbiz #quote • #community #interdependence • #smallbusiness #networking
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One of the most amazing stories in the natural world -- a tale of intrigue and drama, set against grand #Africa and its #wildlife.
The #FigTree and #FigWasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship underpins a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants. Each #fig is a #microcosm -- a stage set for birth, sex and death.
"Truly, a masterpiece" - David Attenborough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM
#Nature #documentary #Interdependence #Botany #biology #FilmDocs
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One of the most amazing stories in the natural world -- a tale of intrigue and drama, set against grand #Africa and its #wildlife.
The #FigTree and #FigWasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship underpins a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants. Each #fig is a #microcosm -- a stage set for birth, sex and death.
"Truly, a masterpiece" - David Attenborough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM
#Nature #documentary #Interdependence #Botany #biology #FilmDocs
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One of the most amazing stories in the natural world -- a tale of intrigue and drama, set against grand #Africa and its #wildlife.
The #FigTree and #FigWasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship underpins a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants. Each #fig is a #microcosm -- a stage set for birth, sex and death.
"Truly, a masterpiece" - David Attenborough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM
#Nature #documentary #Interdependence #Botany #biology #FilmDocs
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One of the most amazing stories in the natural world -- a tale of intrigue and drama, set against grand #Africa and its #wildlife.
The #FigTree and #FigWasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship underpins a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants. Each #fig is a #microcosm -- a stage set for birth, sex and death.
"Truly, a masterpiece" - David Attenborough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM
#Nature #documentary #Interdependence #Botany #biology #FilmDocs
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One of the most amazing stories in the natural world -- a tale of intrigue and drama, set against grand #Africa and its #wildlife.
The #FigTree and #FigWasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship underpins a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants. Each #fig is a #microcosm -- a stage set for birth, sex and death.
"Truly, a masterpiece" - David Attenborough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM
#Nature #documentary #Interdependence #Botany #biology #FilmDocs
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Dear Friends of #Naturalness and #nurturing #natures, :ablobcouple:
As we know, we can learn from #animals, #plants and interactions. This #experiential #interdependence #flows through our experience and #potential to #unfold. Some examples:
- Not everything grows, some nature feeds the next generations through decay :ablobslurp:
- Live, #love and life dances :ablobdancer:
- #Birds sing for #trees, so too are we clusters of #transcendence :_stars:
https://www.inspiringchildren.org/mental-tools-embrace-nature
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And here it is, an #intropost in which I list as many hashbrowns as possible! Incoming hashbrowns!
I’m pretty sure I’m on the planet to help people, and right now I’m pretty sure the greatest help to us all lies in overthrowing oppressive systems. Trying to live #antifascism, #antiracism / #AntiRacist, #bodyjustice / #antifatphobia, #AntiAbleism / #antiableist, pro #lbgtqai, #landback ideas and practices, and to engage in #interdependence through #mutualaid, #community, individual irl relationships, and #directaction . Since I am #disabled with #autoimmune bullshit (#spondy, #spondyloarthritis , and #lupus / #borderlinelupus) I am very interested in #ArtAction , #artactivism, and #musicactivism (that I can do from home.)
My background is in #finearts and I love every single #crafting / #craft / #maker activity out there. Right now I’m obsessed with #procreate and #sewing. I’m also a layperson #herbalist and #gardener.
I have learned that I am happiest as a #catparent with exactly #4cats in the house (which I currently have.)
I’m pretty sure identity is super fluid, so it feels funny putting up labels, but I am also #demisexual, #witchy, #neurodivergent, #homebody. I love #tea, #starwars, #surrealism and #dadaism, and my excellent partner. I have a high tolerance for #weird.
So there ya go.