#systemschange — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #systemschange, aggregated by home.social.
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🌍 Democracy is broken, the game has been rigged. The oligarchy has regained its strangulation of the world economy and made the worst humans the most powerful.
The crisis isn't moral; it's structural. The Integral Collective offers a real, open-source plan to replace broken markets and hierarchical states with a federated, post-monetary economy that works today.
This isn't theory—it's applied systems science ready for deployment:
✅ Post-Monetary: Replaces speculative currency with Integral Time Credits (ITC) that track contribution but cannot be hoarded, traded, or used for power.
✅ Cybernetic Coordination: Uses real-time data to match production with human need and ecological limits, ending the boom/bust cycle.
✅ Open Access Design: Global collaboration on blueprints drives down costs and eliminates planned obsolescence.
✅ Weighted Consensus: A Collaborative Decision System (CDS) that resolves polarization without authoritarianism.The Path Forward:
We don't need a global revolution to start. We need proto-nodes. Local communities can begin coordinating mutual aid, open design, and resource sharing now, federating gradually as the network grows.The architecture is live. The white paper is published. The code is open.
The future doesn't need to be invented; it needs to be integrated.🔗 Read the White Paper & Join a Node: https://integralcollective.io/
#PostMonetary #IntegralCollective #EcoSocialism #Degrowth #ParticipatoryEconomics #OpenSourceSociety #SystemsChange #RealUtopia #CooperativeEconomy #PeterJoseph
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Most systems were built to extract from you. This one fixes the architecture.
Got a question about The 4th Way? Ask it directly: https://www.the4thway.info/ask.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=clearfeed
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Unregulated AI and fossil fuels are the same machine. Extraction engine, different fuel.
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"We're in systems change. And its going to be really confusing, because for a lot of people those stories around those heroes who built their country, or their culture, those stories are *real*."
#NoraBateson, 2020
https://futurethinkers.org/nora-bateson-heal-society/
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After 13 yrs on Twitter, @bikemonterey stopped posting on that platform in Nov 2022.
We are also no longer posting on Meta platforms.—We do have a @bikemonterey Instagram account, but it refers people to this Mastodon account. (BTW, if you do Meta, you’ll likely relate to screenshot below.)
Although we set up a @bikemonterey BlueSky acct, it likewise refers to this Mastodon acct.
As a chief information officer of a Monterey County transportation agency posted on Mastodon on July 6, 2025: “Change isn’t easy. And transformational change requires perseverance and dedication. It doesn’t have to be fanatical. Honestly medium-level relentless will do.” https://mastodon.world/@NoRomBasic/114808599939418491
#SystemsChange #SocialMedia #Mastodon #democracy #PowerToThePeople #Meta #CorporateGreed #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia
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It's apparently World Localization Day, and I've made the wise choice to stay up very late to attend the first session of New Economy Network of Australia's Post-Growth Futures Week on building local futures through transition and regrowth. Amazing discussion on the need to imagine the lives we actually want to live, connect with others, and create a world that allows all to thrive.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the week! (And to watching the recording of this session to catch all the stuff I missed -- central standard time is just a wee bit behind Australian eastern standard time...)
Event link here for those interested: https://events.humanitix.com/nena-post-growth-futures-week-2026
#economics #localization #localisation #communityResilience #postGrowth #degrowth #newEconomy #systemsChange
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How the neoliberals won — and what we can learn from them
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People's lives have been destroyed. That does not stop because one architect is running scared.
What I am saying is this: when the people who built the table start running from it, pay attention. Not because the work is done. Because it confirms what many of us have known for a long time.
They overplayed their hand. And at least one of them knows it.
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ThePredatorsTable #MythOfWhiteSupremacy #Sovereignty #SystemsChange
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History suggests inequality ends in catastrophe. We need another path
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How a different kind of education built the world’s most equal democracies
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"Sweet dreams. How the doughnut diagram works to preempt more radical approaches to planning"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14730952261448510
>This analysis shows that the doughnut diagram forecloses ways of seeing and enjoying that more fundamentally could challenge mainstream planning.#systemschange #donuteconomics #doughnuteconomics #kateraworth
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How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
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Transition Towns are key to degrowth, but current movements remain too reformist
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Why we’re still marching toward collapse—and how to break the trance
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Once you've seen that the future has been absorbing everything we'd rather not deal with right now, something shifts in how the present feels. The choices we make today — what we invest in, what we decline, what we step back from — turn out to carry more weight than we'd been led to believe. Not grand gestures, but the ordinary daily texture of how we live. That texture is moral ground.
This week's reflection @ https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/to-the-lifeboats-6fe08434d9a9
#ClimateReality #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #LifeboatAcademy -
Most of us have spent years waiting for something; the right moment, the right conditions, the clarity that will finally make it obvious what to do. There's a particular recognition that arrives when you realise the future has been quietly absorbing everything we'd rather not deal with right now. The lifeboat doesn't get built there. It gets built here, in whatever time is actually available.
This week's reflection @ bit.ly/4rzVmbR
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There's something worth sitting with in the gap between knowing something and being willing to act on it — and it's not primarily about courage or cowardice. Most of us have found ourselves reaching for the version of events that lets us stay where we are. It's one of the most human things there is. The question is whether we're still doing it right now.
This week's reflection @ https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/to-the-lifeboats-6fe08434d9a9
#Polycrisis #Awareness #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy -
There's a word in today's meme that might land harder than expected, and it's meant to — not as an accusation, but because what it names is structural and the structure needs a name before anything can change. The image is from the Farmastery — frost on kale at dawn. Something alive and tended, part of the story we're trying to live differently.
This week's reflection @ bit.ly/3PwYRSU
#ClimateReality #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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Most of the systems we live inside were built on a particular promise — that if you get enough of the right things, happiness would follow. And most of us have spent years inside that promise without stopping to check whether it was actually delivering. The gap between what satisfaction feels like and what happiness actually is is where the most important questions live.
This week's reflection @
https://bit.ly/3PwYRSU#Polycrisis #Meaning #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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There's a difference between not seeing something and deciding, somewhere below the level of awareness, that you'd rather not. Most of us have done both at different points, and the interesting question — the one that sits just underneath Ben's reflection on where we put our time and energy — is which one is happening right now.
The week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-07-02
#Polycrisis #Awareness #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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David Graeber named something that changes how the work feels: the world is not inevitable. It is made — by what people build, invest in, and refuse. Which means the communities forming right now, choosing different values under real pressure, aren't peripheral. They're part of how things actually change.
If this resonates, the reflection behind it is worth your time — Reflections: January 6th, 2021:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/reflections-january-6th-2021-a8a5a281d33d#DavidGraeber #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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Connection isn't soft. It isn't secondary.
It is the infrastructure of being #human.
And our foundations are cracking.So make a deliberate #HumanConnection today.
Call someone just to hear their voice.
Make eye contact.
Show up somewhere in-person.
Ask a real question and listen to the answer. -
This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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Correctness offers the illusion of stability, but often blocks our capacity to see what’s truly moving.
Ben's artice this week explored how we re-orient inside complexity — how we recognise flow when surface conditions feel chaotic or still.Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti names the shift: from correctness to complexity, context, and compassion.
That’s where real clarity begins.#Complexity #Context #Compassion #SystemsChange #RelationalLeadership #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy