#techchurn — Public Fediverse posts
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Pick up the shovels to start growing the commons, that’s the #OMN path
There is a temptation to see today's hard right move as something new. Looking at this mess, the #deathcult is the name I use for the destructive logic of #neoliberal capitalism: a world where profit, growth and competition are the dominant measures of value, while human needs, shared resources and collective responsibility are pushed aside. If we want to understand the political crisis, we need to dig beneath its surface of how social crisis becomes authoritarian politics. The hard right […]https://hamishcampbell.com/pick-up-the-shovels-to-start-growing-the-commons-thats-the-omn-path/
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Pick up the shovels to start growing the commons, that’s the #OMN path
There is a temptation to see today's hard right move as something new. Looking at this mess, the #deathcult is the name I use for the destructive logic of #neoliberal capitalism: a world where profit, growth and competition are the dominant measures of value, while human needs, shared resources and collective responsibility are pushed aside. If we want to understand the political crisis, we need to dig beneath its surface of how social crisis becomes authoritarian politics. The hard right […]https://hamishcampbell.com/pick-up-the-shovels-to-start-growing-the-commons-thats-the-omn-path/
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It should be more obvious by now that #mainstreaming culture is a #DeathCult.
The question that matters now is: what non-obvious alternative cultures could actually become the difference we need? It's what I've been working on with #OMN, #indymediaback, #OGB and the #4opens.
They are from underground ideas and practices we already know work, then add the useful parts of #openweb technology to sprout small seeds → connected communities → practical alternatives → real change.
Not more shiny ideas or another round of #techchurn. But something we can actually build.
PS: please don't be a prat.
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It should be more obvious by now that #mainstreaming culture is a #DeathCult.
The question that matters now is: what non-obvious alternative cultures could actually become the difference we need? It's what I've been working on with #OMN, #indymediaback, #OGB and the #4opens.
They are from underground ideas and practices we already know work, then add the useful parts of #openweb technology to sprout small seeds → connected communities → practical alternatives → real change.
Not more shiny ideas or another round of #techchurn. But something we can actually build.
PS: please don't be a prat.
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It should be more obvious by now that #mainstreaming culture is a #DeathCult.
The question that matters now is: what non-obvious alternative cultures could actually become the difference we need? It's what I've been working on with #OMN, #indymediaback, #OGB and the #4opens.
They are from underground ideas and practices we already know work, then add the useful parts of #openweb technology to sprout small seeds → connected communities → practical alternatives → real change.
Not more shiny ideas or another round of #techchurn. But something we can actually build.
PS: please don't be a prat.
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It should be more obvious by now that #mainstreaming culture is a #DeathCult.
The question that matters now is: what non-obvious alternative cultures could actually become the difference we need? It's what I've been working on with #OMN, #indymediaback, #OGB and the #4opens.
They are from underground ideas and practices we already know work, then add the useful parts of #openweb technology to sprout small seeds → connected communities → practical alternatives → real change.
Not more shiny ideas or another round of #techchurn. But something we can actually build.
PS: please don't be a prat.