#lifecult — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lifecult, aggregated by home.social.
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#postmodernism: Changing the story doesn't change the world.
#geekproblem: Writing the code doesn't build the community.
#lifecult: Believing in something doesn't make it live.
#OMN: Social processes make things real. Everything else is scaffolding.
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In the era of the #deathcult, it has become common sense that mainstream culture produces its share of ugliness. We think this needs to be said plainly and often if we're to have any hope of pushing back against the fear that breeds hate. The growth of a #lifecult - a genuine alternative rooted in solidarity and care - isn't without its own complications, but it's a necessary counter-balance.
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The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History
#Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-the-peace-dividend-and-the-return-of-history/
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For the logic choppers, the words are not for you, you are a knife, we are talking about metaphors and inspiration, the building of hope. #deathcult and #lifecult are useful metaphors for human nature https://hamishcampbell.com/deathcult-and-lifecult-are-metaphors-of-human-nature/
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The answer is simple, composting to purify the shit that fill the mainstream. Our job “life” is building this composting social system. #deathcult and #lifecult are metaphors of human nature hamishcampbell.com/deathcult-an...
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The answer is simple, composting to purify the shit that fill the mainstream. Our job “life” is building this composting social system. #deathcult and #lifecult are metaphors of human nature https://hamishcampbell.com/deathcult-and-lifecult-are-metaphors-of-human-nature/
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The #mainstreaming is talking about the #deathcult – So why are you still waiting?
It took four decades of sleepwalking through #neoliberalism, cultural decay, ecological collapse, and social atomisation, but at last, the #mainstreaming is starting to talk about the #deathcult we’ve been worshipping.
Case in point: Steve Coogan – yes, Alan Partridge – is now publicly accusing Keir Starmer and Labour of “paving the way for Reform UK,” the rising hard-right threat. Here’s the article. It’s not satire, it’s despair. Coogan’s right, and a few years ago, such a […]
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The story: power, truth, and walking the fun path
Our powerlessness feeds our desire to hate. This is not a personal failing - it’s a social design flaw. A social problem built on alienation and distraction that funnels frustration into polarisation. That’s why the controversy-driven algorithms of the #dotcons (corporate social media platforms) are not just annoying, but actively harmful. They feed on our despair, and we, often unknowingly, feed on the drama they serve back to us. It’s a closed loop of spectacle and spite, profitable […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-story-power-truth-and-walking-the-fun-path/
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Ideas to communicate this to the logisticians who are our need “blinded” alias in this building work. #deathcult and #lifecult are metaphors of human nature hamishcampbell.com/deathcult-an...
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Ideas to communicate this to the logisticians who are our need “blinded” alias in this building work. #deathcult and #lifecult are metaphors of human nature https://hamishcampbell.com/deathcult-and-lifecult-are-metaphors-of-human-nature/
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A world we see as normal hamishcampbell.com/a-world-we-s... we could make the Fediverse appear less like a #lifecult at first glance by presenting it in ways that feel more approachable and less intimidating, more like the #deathcult they are used to.
A world we see as normal – Ham... -
A world we see as normal https://hamishcampbell.com/a-world-we-see-as-normal/ Instead of demanding they abandon their comfort zone entirely, we could make the Fediverse appear less like a #lifecult at first glance by presenting it in ways that feel more approachable and less intimidating, more like the #deathcult they are used to.
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The #mainstreaming mess
The #mainstreaming project is visibly failing. Worse, it is set to catastrophically fail over the next 30 years as #climatechaos escalates. The signs are everywhere: environmental collapse, political instability, and the hollow nature of mainstream culture. Yet, large parts of liberal society continue to bow to the #deathcult, a path of power, greed, and control over life, community, and sustainability. The end result we can now clearly see is the rule of big, dumb, ugly men with guns, a […] -
We need balance in the continuing support for mess and a real shift to things that matter in #openweb tech
The Open Governance Body (#OGB) is a radical approach to decentralized governance, designed to address the failures of existing governance models by combining activist organizing techniques with decentralized federated technology like #ActivityPub. It provides a very flexible governance framework that can be used across different communities, from local markets to the #Fediverse, creating a scalable and human-centric decision-making path.Real-world applications, the #OGB can be applied to […] -
The dead ideology of Neo-liberalism is everywhere. It’s in everything we look at, everything we touch. And while it might feel uncomfortable, we should feel distaste when we look at it and revulsion when we touch it, this is the reality of living under a #deathcult. For the past 40 years, we’ve been immersed in a system that most people still worship as if there’s no alternative.
But where is the path out? Where is the vision for something different, something rooted in solidarity and sustainability rather than profit and exploitation? Take a moment to look at this example of a #4opens project from a simpler time: Wikipedia revision history from 2011. Note the commitment to “strict scrutiny”, which required that any security measures serve a compelling community interest and be narrowly focused to achieve that and nothing else.
Compare that principle to the current state of tech, where the #encryptionsist agenda overshadows transparency and community accountability. The shift has been stark, away from openness, away from scrutiny, and towards the path where security becomes a shield for entrenched power and control.
We need to confront this head-on. The #deathcult thrives on our passive acceptance of neoliberal norms. Revulsion isn’t just justified; it’s necessary. The path we need to take is in rejecting this #blocking to build the #4opens alternatives we so desperately need.
OMN #IndyMediaBack #OpenWeb #MakeHistory #OGB
let’s look at an example of this in our current lives. People have been living in the shadow of neoliberalism for so long that worshipping the #deathcult has become their nature. The values of exploitation, competition, and #stupidindividualism are baked into what’s considered “normal” behaviour. In contrast, embracing a #lifecult, based on collaboration, community, and sustainability—feels alien, even threatening, to many “normal” people.
This is one of the reasons the #Fediverse and alternative social media platforms have struggled to gain traction. The Fediverse embodies #lifecult principles: decentralisation, mutual aid, and the rejection of exploitative corporate models. While these are positive ideals, they feel too far removed from the familiar patterns of the #deathcult for most people to take the leap.
A cynical path we could take is to meet people halfway. Instead of demanding they abandon their comfort zone entirely, we could make the Fediverse appear less like a #lifecult at first glance by presenting it in ways that feel more approachable and less intimidating, more like the #deathcult they are used to. Yes, the Fediverse should stay true to its principles, but making it less of an overt #lifecult and more of a practical, attractive alternative, #deathcult could be the “common sense” step we need to bring people over. Once they’re in, the actually, hopefully still existing culture and values of the Fediverse will begin to work their magic.
What do you think? Should we focus on shadowing the approach to reach more people, or would that risk diluting the values that make the #Fediverse what it is? How do we live this balance in our #openweb reboot
https://hamishcampbell.com/a-world-we-see-as-normal/
#4opens #blocking #deathcult #encryptionsist #fediverse #indymediaback #lifecult #MakeHistory #OGB #openweb #stupidindividualism
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What can we learn, what can we do?
People need to understand that the tension between different approaches to activism highlights the need for creative synthesis in our current broad social and ecological crises. Fluffy vs. #Spiky is about a Diversity of Tactics. The idea that both working within the system (#fluffy) and challenging it directly (#spiky) are necessary to creating a robust and adaptive movement. On this native path, building "common ground" is crucial, but the left's fragmentation under decades of […]https://hamishcampbell.com/what-can-we-learn-what-can-we-do/
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@evan ahaa.. the agenda is that #ActivityPub is the culture, so the technology is important, but the serendipity that allowed a #lifecult to slip past the #deathcult when the #dotcons people turned up to that first few #WC3 meetings then went away saying nothing interesting here...
The value is the history of how we got there, the spec is a footnote, it's the (cultural) ideas that are embodied in the spec that have the power. And if you dig a little, it's clearly a #counterculture :)
All revolutions are built from this https://hamishcampbell.com/a-tech-story/
Let's nurture this please https://hamishcampbell.com/a-conversation-that-circles/
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#postmodernism - wishing something does not make it true, a whole load of social struggle and soughed activism makes things true.
#geekproblem - coding something does not make anything true a whole load of community and some soughed PR or/and activism makes this true.
#lifecult – worshipping does not make things true, an excess of change and challenge of the #mainstreaming makes this true
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In the era of the #deathcult it's common sense that #mainstreaming people are vile. This needs to be said out load more if we are to have hope to push back the growing fear breeding hate.
The resulting growth of the #lifecult is not without its own problems, but it is a needed balance.
Am reading Aristotle's constitution of Athens Agen, it has much to say about this path.
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Women & Online Television in Senegal – Screening of Mistress of a Married Man + Q&A with director Kalista Sy
St John’s Cinema Club and the TORCH African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network are excited to welcome Senegalese online television series screenwriter, director and producer Kalista Sy.
The event will start with a brief introduction by Dr Estrella Sendra (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London), followed by the screening of the first episode of the series Maîtresse d’un homme marié (Mistress of a Married Man) and a discussion with the filmmaker. Khadidiatou Sy, known as Kalista Sy, is a Senegalese screenwriter, director and producer, who became famous in Africa and beyond following the success of her first series, Maîtresse d’un homme marié (Mistress of a Married Man), known as MDHM. MDHM is the first Senegalese women-led television series where women are placed at the very centre of the narrative. The series, first released on 25 January 2019, and broadcasted online via YouTube, became viral, with over 5 million viewers per episode, and being compared to Sex and the City in international media. In 2019, following the international success of MDHM, Kalista Sy made it to the BBC’s list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women from around the world.
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The trubbles of middle class African life, dressed in postmodern feminism. A Women’s view of plastic black consumerism.
It’s the #deathcult playing out in the current mess, dressed in western ideas of social norms. It’s not that the life and experiences are not real, it is that the culture they push, and it’s assuming are the problem that I am talking about. The videos try and mediate a “better” path within this #mainstreaming “common sense”.
The is no #lifecult in this TV, the reflection of mess makes more mess. The ideology of the era, the filmmaker says I am the radical, the feminist, people look to me.
The filmmakers are funded by product placement, this is thought out the videos, part of the middle class assumptions and binding to the subject. “People buy their identity” the brands push this into the film’s. This is a #NGO path being pushed throughout Africa. This is the “sex in the city” world view translated to local “common sense” in this it is pushing liberal norms.
One question, “very middle class, is this represented as aspiration. She says this look and aspiration is “normal” there, bueity is their strength. Mental health and sexuality to grow the couching and Therapy industries.
A question of the capitalism of the production, the root story is a reaction agenst male repression, seed money from the husband, then support from the women, it is run at a local level, now it is “sponsored” to tell the stores of the people who pay the bills, this is the sustaining push.
It ends in heroic liberalism, and individualism fighting the good fight, by pushing western #mainstreaming
#deathcult #lifecult #mainstreaming #NGO
https://hamishcampbell.com/?p=4797
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Is there a path out of this mess https://youtu.be/mtuxHVD4Srw?si=zzYLMyCk-u2GSnBw taking about our worshipping of the #deathcult and what would a #lifecult look like.
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This is a #lifecult that has been overwhelmed with the mess we all push. They are shoveling and composting for the first time in 40 years faster than we all spread shit over the world. Help them please, don't be a "common sense" #deathcult worshiper please.
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Its a hard to understand simple thing. In the era of the #deathcult the fashernisas are almost always wrong and a part of the problem. In the era of the #lifecult fahernistas are mostly right and a part of the solution, does that make it more simple?
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The terms #deathcult and #lifecult are metaphorical ways of describing different aspects of human condition. The #deathcult is the mainstream way of thinking that prioritizes greed and materialism, while the #lifecult is a messy counter-current that emphasizes values such as ecology and social justice.
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https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/04/boulder-councilwoman-shared-video-claiming-that-5g-is-an-extinction-level-event/ nuts and nutters are also worshiping the #deathcult a question for you what would a #lifecult look like for you?
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The #mainstreamining project is obviously failing, and is likely to catastrophicly fail over the next 50 years as #climatechaos grows.
We face a frightening choice,:
keep bowing down to the #deathcult with the outcome of the rule big, dumb ugly men with guns.
Build and support alternative projects/paths, worship a #lifecult nurture the #grassroots maybe then we can have a humaine outcome.
The are no easey paths #OMN
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@humanetech @404 the hashtags are grassroots social organisating tools. They are simply metaphors of existing ideas.
Yes the is a little language magic at play, no bad thing as we can't help keeping recreating religion's. #deathcult is the opposite of #lifecult and yes the is an understanding in both of very human "cult/tribalism"
Post-truth, post-modernism "steer round" are both drivern by fear/control and in turn drives this right mess.
Compost and plant left seeds #OMN
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@Edent #lifecult #deathcult both are still cults.
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http://hamishcampbell.com/2021/07/26/deathcult-and-lifecult-are-metaphors-of-human-nature/ #deathcult and #lifecult are metaphors of human nature