"Surviving the Future" #Quotes
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by Shaun Chamberlin 
= @DarkOptimism
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⌚22.27 In contrast, small-scale has it's own economies.
⌚23.19 Re-discovering citizenship.
⌚24.21 Local people, who care for local people.
⌚25.03 Large-scale state dazzled by it's good intentions, saw itself as provider.
⌚25.14 Economic competitiveness usurped other standards.
While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in, has diminished.
⭐ Never has so much been decided for so many by so few.
⌚26.02 Presence is beautiful. It is friendship, it is our being. It is what life is for.
Absence make things difficult... especially when there is no-one at home.
⌚26.56 The price charged by Fred for his goods will hold only so long as the price charged by Dan for the same goods, in the same place, is no lower. If it is (lower), Fred will need to reduce his prices or else go out of business.
⌚27.37 What distinguishes them (producers) is how good thy are at doing it (selling)...
Everyone else is doing so and anyone who does not is quickly priced out of business.
In the future it will not be like that.
⌚29.23 How can a community, despite all this, be mistress of it's own fate in this sense?
How can it... have the freedom to make enlightened decision and make them stick?
(1 answer) Villages... not based on price... built around a complex culture of arrangements, obligations, loyalties, collaborations which express the nature and priorities of the community and the network of relationships and reciprocities between it's members.
⭐ Examples: House-holds, friends, neighbours, cricket teams, magistrates, parent-teacher association, allotment holders.
This is the non-monetary informal economy. The central core that enables our society to exist.
⌚31.06 Sheer naked loyalties and family values can only go so far.
There needs to be something interesting connecting too. Something to talk about, cooperate in, mull over, to aim for, to laugh at.
Something to coordinate and do together.
⌚31.27 A culture is like the upright strands that you begin with in basket-making, round which you wind the texture of the basket yourself. No sticks, no basket. No culture, no community.
It is both the parent and child of social capital... The social life...
The links of cooperation and friendship...
⌚32.00 It is the good faith and civility... that make a living community. The cooperation that build it's institutions. It is the social ecosystem in which a culture lives.
⌚32.16 Adam Smith observed that people are willing to carry out almost any service for each other despite being motivated by nothing more than commercial self-interest.
It has seemed to be unnecessary... for such high emotives as benevolence.
⌚33.45 In the mature settlements that could follow however, the tyranny of decisions being made in lock step with competitive pricing with be an ancient memory.
There will be time for music.
⌚33.58 Well, the answer to that ... You, the listener, are invited to explore ideas from more than 1 point of view. Follow up the references to build you own familiarity with the key concepts in your own way.
You are invited to participate in a story. A story about the shared experience, of something discovered, something discussed. Something done.
⭐ "Surviving The Future" is a book about inventive, cooperative, self-reliance.
Inheriting and inventing families of enabling principles such as; the rules of chess, the instruments in music, or the grammar of language, we can construct things with more confidence and ambition than we could if we have to invent everything from first principles.
⌚35.34 ...really what I think the radio station and beyond is in support of is how do we make sure those upright strands are there so that we can weave together a real community, a real neighbourhood a real culture.
⌚36.18 Who doesn't want to live in a society like that, that puts emphasis on what he calls the non-monetary central economy - it's not about how much you make, but about the interactions and the relationships you have in a community.
⌚36.41 Relationship is paramount. We are nothing if we are not in relationship.
⭐ Abstract without the particular creates the demonic.
So in other words if you can create an abstraction, which is what our system has done so well; other people, putting a price on everything, food from the grocery store- it's all an #abstraction and if we aren't in relationship, in the particular, you can do terrible things.
⌚37.14 Yeah and as he [Shaun] note's... "How can so few influence so many?" (answer is the abstraction that loses touch with reality in how things are made etc).
⌚37.29 Intention of community - if the community has intention, then it is not helpless. If this is how we wish to live, then we can make it so...
⌚37.42 Phrase "If you don't use your imagination someone else will."
⭐ And I think that's what's happened, where our imagination has been co-opted
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