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Growing gap between rich and poor.

Credit - DaveWalker.com / @davewalker + edit by @freeschool

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are not giving anyone anything new in the real sense...

Because the money system needed debt to create debt it's using from
In order to 'make peoples .

' money (debt from debt)... physically you give someone 100... BUT it took 110 to from them or someone else in the system to PAY MONETY to the bank as any loan or mortgage fee or % payment does, thus reducing value of all money n the same system!

(loans need you to pay for it thus reducing the face value!)

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I'm looking for my Leaders / Are you also looking for Leadership? Someone to help ? Role Models to become ? Admin you look upto ? 

On reflection I've been thinking that "I'm looking for a decent leader" and perhaps that all of us do look for leadership.

That's why we might moan when admin are not the potential we thought.

I've been wanting to merge with people and their work most of my life and perhaps that's naturally all of us in our life inescapably as humans (all part of one species) from parents and then... ?

And so increasingly when the bad world is cutting people out of the equation, cutting off from land or increasing it's price, our nature is cut off by those who have 100% bad/extractive intentions to cut down and sell it all (then sell it all back to us). So instead of rebel and all become terrorists (as a reflection of current regime) then we look to other people more and more to help and serve us or better people to serve.

(I could have just said "because government is shit deliberately we are forced to look to our parents and other people for answers" so you take either version of that!)

Because looking for leadership ties in so many good / wanted things...

●occasional person to partner up with
●project making / re-creating the past good ways and things
●remote or local integration of related work with projects (toward Freedom / everyone being more responsible together)
●potentials for "a new future"
●service to each other mutually with this power of "online" to wield.
●etc etc

This all makes Admin a target naturally for providing and representing spaces, also doing some of that already as part of their existence or blurbs and bio... after which they might just be talk or might be "I don't care for that as much" even if it's not directly that phrase - but after 50 emails you do get the message and especially if you're like me try all the angles and realise it's futile and someone willing would actually message you after some stimulous rather than the just as a chore to say "I replied" as the minimum.

Are they investing in people?
NOT SO MUCH MAYBE! They do social but not the 1 to 1 or bringing you into the trusted ring so to speak which is needed for the opposite not to happen (everything gets worse and avalanches on a few people since they didn't want to give up their seats or test something occasionally with others).

And many people too I believe chose and look up to their Admin...
...for their boldness
...what they represent,
...intellect
...ability to express

and so might expect them to lead the way even more or continually.

As a kind of human to those "in power" we might think "that's your purpose there, to serve me more of the good stuff and I will do best I can if only you would allow me to test things also to also represent this place!!"

It's my opinion, though demanding, it is our duty as humans and can't escape it - and though that seems unfair on Admin basically even free space without more is ultimately flawed... and not free either (which you might find out when they moan back).

Even the free or half-promised stuff can be like a friend who says he'll come fix something and every day forgets the day or keeps delaying or worse doesn't even acknowledge he didn't turn up while you're waiting for him.

Not talking only about my admin completely but also the whole dynamic of Admins and Users.

If you're admin is going into AI instead of more fully doing "the people work" as you see it - that's a cut off point of "Oh he's pro AI" and doesn't see the human slave labour behind it for the basic data entry and input or "totally he's interested in Tech and playing with toys more than people"

So although I don't know the guy (so don't take any of my words for it) do assume I've hammered this server with "we have to do this, can you help me with this, can we test this project" x100 posts and DM's and basically what seems would " legitamise " and magnify such as test project to get answers... So that's why we my ask persistently or beg or be told by another user "you can always go elsewhere if you don't like it" only for the same modern bourgeois attitude there... A bit like Capitalist job not willing to see the bad habits and care to adjust and just say "find another job and good luck!".

It can work as a provider, moral pillar, pioneer or whatever, that users expect and ask for more and sadly for the "expectee" sometimes not possible or not wanted...

Ideally like a mutual Leader or Queen bee (laying eggs like projects and supporting us) it might not happen in Human Society for other reasons. It's not just pure rejection or differences, and sometimes it is!.

But money, AI, non-improvement of users, FUCK THAT!
( lol - just wanted to add a bit of spice at the end)/

So some of this is going to be true for you as user or Admin.
Some things are are totally going to me misguided and circular for people, like "Tech-only and not people" or unsaid thingsthat are effectively that.
We are nature and natural to us is more nature / care and we not aiming for Humans with Borg-add-ons fused to us which is where things are headed! I am not against most things but we have enough and almost stopped doing the people work, almost switched to Tech only which surprise-surprise is what Government funds most (fuck the arts, peoples and education bitch!).

Are you looking for your Leader / pioneer ? So Am I....


🏆 🔷 (well maybe you found "the right person" (me) because the rest are not even aiming properly or clearly wanting to help people improve people NOT TECH!).

Users are the weak point also... so I can give you work and you can start on Monday! :blobrofl:
Serious! No leaders I know around here... How about you?

Are just advanced bloggers?
Are you just helpless soul without another person? [MLK pic below will help you consider answers]

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Feel isolated / Need to talk? [ #NewProject Like Collapse Club... ] 

Links to existing chat space and that you can help me recreate but without:

❌:ablobglarezoom: they use Zoom so I want to switch that to

➡️ Post-Doom, No Gloom
(postdoom.com/connect/) calls,

➡️ Safe Circle small-group calls (livingresilience.net/safecircl).

➡️ Deep Adaptation events (deepadaptation.info/events/),

Not sure about forum but maybe as FAQ:

➡️ CollapseSupport community on Reddit
➡️ DarkOptimism.org.

All welcoming, and
--------- BUT USE----------
❌:ablobglarezoom: they use Zoom so I want to switch that to

❌:mastodon: they're not on Mastodon [yet] so want to switch that also

Feel isolated / Need to talk? [ similar






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A Rice field - did you ever think of rice looking like this from growing to landing on your plate? 

I feel like a kid who isn't sure how somethings grows even though I've seen and eat it a million times.

Having not grown or seen fields how can kids (or me) know about these or feel in touch with it in reality?

Have you seen these things in real life (does it grow in your country for example?) Soyou might have seen this as a picture (me not often), but also never in real life (?)

And then it's on your plate so it's a lot less further obvious in a plastic packet than that of apples or something you might see more often right?

Wait... don't answer if you see apple trees regularly.

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a staple of the Iraqi diet but drought and declining rainfall have strangled local production.

Iraq's rice crop usually requires between 10 and 12 billion cubic meters of water during the five-month growing period.

Iraq's scorching sun, with temperature soaring towards 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), Joufi trudged across the muddy field, pausing to tend malfunctioning sprinklers spread out on his one hectare (2.5 acres) of land.

"We want to learn which seed genotypes respond well" to irrigation using sprinklers instead of flooding, Moussa said.

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#plastic #disease called plasticosis ! 🤣 

= ! 🤣

"...the fibrotic disease caused by plastic-induced scarring they observed in the stomachs of seabirds."

+ scarring (gut intestine etc)

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311

The Plastic Problem
Since the 1950s, industry has pumped out plastic products at an increasingly rapid clip (5). Production now reaches about 400 million metric tons per year (5). Half of these plastics are intended for a single use, such as polystyrene plates and polypropylene grocery bags, of which the vast majority are not recycled.

When pieces measure less than 5 millimeters, researchers call these fragments microplastics. Industry also produces microplastics directly for consumer use, such as beads in exfoliating face washes and fibers in synthetic textiles.

Microplastics have been found in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean (6), air in the Antarctic (7), and dust in homes (8)... guts of seals and dolphins (9) and in seafood (10) and bottled water (11). They’ve even been found in human blood (12), stools (13), lungs (14), and placenta (15).

“We’re swimming in a mess of our own making,” says marine ecologist Randi Rotjan of Boston University.

And macroplastics are going to break down to microplastics for millennia. - Randi Rotjan

It’s not as though the water had been thick with plastic. Imagine piling nylon filaments onto a quarter and then sprinkling them into a 6-liter tank... That amount of microplastic was all it took for the dramatic increase in mortality.

- Meredith Seeley, who conducted the research as a PhD student at VIMS. Mmarine scientist and environmental chemist.

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London event + afterparty.

House of the People on 11th August (Sat / tmrw)

Politics is broken, but you’re the fix.

- Here's the Twitter msg via filter

bird.makeup/@timetoassemble_/1

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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) 

smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

from @smallcircles

, and that improve

Picture edited from original just for a different twist of thinking...

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"Growing gap between and "
- Dave Walker / @davewalker

Image cropped from post: mastodon.social/@davewalker/11

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Notifications 🔔 = FAST responses - Fediverse for the way!? 

1. CLICK FOLLOW :follow: (blue button)

(🔔 BELL APPEARS or If an account is with 🔒 then wait until they accept your follow AND THEN BELL APPEARS)

2. CLICK BELL!... 🔔 done!

Putting mouse cursor over the bell checks the status if not sure.

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WHY THIS POST?
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You can jump on topics faster this way or let the popups fade in and out.
Popups (in bottom left for few secs) = no more having to check manually your backlog, posts come in and out automatically on screen - good if you're online a lot anyway.

Being responsive is super effective in a network of passionate people.

And switch off any time per user... 🔕

Choose who you like best and get the best from them!

NOTE: Locked accounts (with 🔒) need to be accepted and then bell clicked...

VIVA LA

+ Bell

Notifications make for more responsive network... for me or any user's posts.

Instant pop-ups for my posts means you can test me out and see if I'm worthy as fruit 🍐

Text popup fades out after a few seconds on desktops... discreet, small box, bottom left....

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#Community #Quote "Instead of consuming food, music, booze and so on, I was producing them with people who I was in a full relationship with..." 

"Instead of consuming food, music, booze and so on, I was producing them with people who I was in a full relationship with,"

- Mark Boyle aka "Moneyless Man" VS.

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+ MORE STUFF RELATED BELOW
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📖 ONLINE
web.archive.org/web/2012110123

💬 MY COMMENT:
I like Mark's stuff but it never really hit me until repeatedly copied and pasted the quote that I thought: "Wow imagine being in a relationship with others that depends on EVERYTHING being made! Just like I was a young again and if people broke up or had argument then all the food, music and booze would be at risk!"

Did make me think "No wonder there is the money way to keep things going!" But then I thought:
"Would I prefer it to keep going without harmony and use the fake money?" (ANSWER NO, RELATIONSHIPS STILL "FOR THE WAY" AS TOUGH AS I KNOW THEY CAN BE! ....Ok... maybe a bit of food security through something as backup! Call it Christianity or something) ✝️ 🍞 🧀

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Full Interview below:
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Can you live without money? Lily Cole meets the “Moneyless Man”
22 April 2015

Mark Boyle started to rely entirely on gifts and bartering in 2008 - cooking on an outdoor stove, washing his clothes in soapwort, and using the Daily Mail as loo paper. He tells Lily Cole why he loved it.

By Lily Cole

Lily Cole: What was your upbringing like – did your parents have much money and what was their relationship to money like?

Mark Boyle: My formative years were Eighties pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, where no one – my parents included – had two dimes to rub together. We lived week to week, with no car or phone or any of the trappings that today’s youth would consider to be life’s essentials. But I had the best of parents and the happiest of childhoods, and there was a real sense of authentic community on the street where we lived. Everyone mucked in together, everyone had each other’s back. Only one house out of 80 had a phone, and if you wanted to use it you simply left 20p beside it once you were done. Doors were always open, children’s clothes were passed from one family’s toddlers to the next, and if some one was ever stuck for a few bob others came together and helped them out. The streets and fields were full of kids playing and getting up to no good, and we always had food. I go back there now and everyone is much better off financially, but the doors are closed as no one needs each other any more. People meet their needs through money and the technologies it facilitates, and not through intimate human relationships.

LC: When did you begin to question the value and system around money?

MB: When I was taking a degree in business, I had a fantastic economics lecturer who taught me to question everything, especially the premises underlying different economic models. But my understanding was quite raw then, and at that point I was still more interested in getting a well-paid career than I was in challenging the cultural and economic narratives of our age. I knew something wasn’t quite right with it, I had an inkling things could be a different way. But it would be another five years before those seeds of doubt would germinate.

LC: Before you “lived without money” what jobs did you do and how did you feel about them?
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MB: After I finished my degree, I fell into a job managing an organic food company, which put me into contact with lots of weird and wonderful food suppliers – bee-keepers, salad growers, goats cheesemakers and the like. Through meeting them, and listening to their perspectives on the world, I began to see some of the ecological insanity of the world around me, and for the first time in my life I understood real economics – what some might call ecology. The more I questioned the basic cultural assumptions of the society I was working within, the less sense it made to continue working in it.

LC: What was the moment you had the idea to try living without money – was it a specific moment, or a growing feeling? And when was it?

MB: Studying economics, we were obviously well versed in the benefits of money – a medium of exchange to facilitate the specialised division of labour required for an industrialised society, a store of value and so on. But no one ever explained to us the social, ecological and personal consequences of monetising our lives. It was as if money were the only technology in the world without unintended consequences. So I began speaking out about those for about a year, around 2007, at which point a friend said to me, “if you think money is so problematic, why don’t you give it up yourself?” So I did. Within about 30 minutes of the challenge I had put a “For Sale” sign on my old houseboat, the proceeds of which I used to set up a gift economy website called Freeconomy.

LC: Did the idea scare you?

MB: The idea scared the bejesus out of me. Up to that point in my life, money provided me with my sense of security. That security was now going to have to come from the strength of relationships I had with the people and lands around me, both of which felt a lot less predictable than the cold hard cash I was used to.

LC: How long did it take you to decide to really try?

MB: After selling the houseboat and setting up Freeconomy, I set myself a date – Buy Nothing Day 2008 – at which point I would stop using money for what was originally intended to be a one-year experiment. Which gave me about six months to prepare. But as I had come from a conventional background, where I was more comfortable with a spreadsheet than a spade, that really wasn’t a lot of time.

LC: How did you deal with living without money initially? Where did you live? How did you manage for food/drink? How did you manage for heating, clothes, soap, washing, other necessities..?

MB: The practicalities of living without money are almost infinite, many of which I’ve detailed in The Moneyless Manifesto. But some of these were more critical than others. I lived in a caravan I found on Freecycle, and I kitted this out with a wood-burner made from an old gas bottle, which I fuelled using wood I’d gather from the land around me. I cooked my simple fare outside, 365 days of the year, on a rocket stove, and dinner usually consisted of veggies and, being Irish, a pot of potatoes. I gathered up the unused apples from the surrounding area to make cider, and the campfire became my pub, around which friends would sing and dance and make music together. We became participants in life, not only consumers of it. To wash my clothes I used a plant called soapwort which I grow, and washed clothes in either an old sink or the river, where I also bathed. I brushed my teeth with toothpaste made from wild fennel seed and cuttlefish bone. I had a composting toilet and used discarded editions of The Daily Mail for toilet roll – a fine use for it. Sometimes, as I would go to wipe my backside with a newspaper, I would notice a picture of myself staring back – and proceed ahead anyway.

LC: Did living without money alienate you socially from many of your friends? Did it bring you closer to others?

MB: When I began living without money, one of my biggest fears was becoming alienated from friends and society. Being Irish, I was used to congregating in the pub, and this obviously was no longer an option. But the fear turned out to be entirely unfounded. I quickly found that my friends were dying to get out of the city and into nature, and, if anything, my biggest problem was finding some of the solitude that I crave from time to time. My relationship with the people around me become much stronger – for the first time in my life I realised my interdependency on the world around me.

LC: What did your parents think about your decision?

MB: At first, my parents didn’t really talk about my decision – after all, they’d seen me bust a gut to educate myself, presumably on the basis that I would then get a good job. But as time wore on, and they came to understand my motivations for doing it, they got more and more behind it. Dad even grows his own vegetables for the family now.

LC: Were you able to travel much – see family at Christmas, etc?

MB: Travelling was slow. My preference was to walk, but I’d also cycle if I had to go a little further afield. When I wanted to go home for Christmas, I would hitch – a journey that takes most people 40 minutes on an airplane but would take me the best part of two days. This was frustrating at first, as adapting to a new way of being kept me very busy, but I soon came to the conclusion that travelling probably ought to be slow.

LC: Did you ever doubt your decision?

MB: I had a few doubts in the first three months, as it was all so new to me. But as my experience grew, so did my confidence, and before long it became first nature to me.

LC: You say you enjoyed the experience so much in the first year, you decided to do it for longer. Can you explain what you enjoyed so much about the experience?

MB: Like no other period in my life, I felt fully alive. Having spent most of my life worrying about the future or regretting the past, I was living in the moment, day to day – like wild animals do, I suspect. I had a strong sense of connection to the land and waterways around me, on whose health I realised my own depended. Instead of consuming food, music, booze and so on, I was producing them with people who I was in a full relationship with. Life was rich, intimate and diverse – every day I learned something new, often about things that had never even entered my awareness before. I was fitter, happier and healthier than ever before. Most of all, I felt liberated.

LC: Do you think you’ll go back to living without money again in future?

MB: Yes, that is the long-term plan, and we’re currently creating a project called An Teach Saor (Gaelic for “The Free House”) in Ireland, which will allow other people, for various periods of time, to experience living in this way also.

LC: When did you have the idea for your online community, Just for the Love of It? Was it a specific moment, or a growing desire?

MB: I dreamed up Freeconomy (Just for the Love of It) around 2006, having come to the conclusion that our disconnection from life was at the root of many of the ecological, social and personal crises I witnessed unfolding around me – and that contrary to conventional wisdom, money was one of the most disconnecting tools we possessed. So I wanted to help create new economic systems. The problem was, all the existing alternative systems being developed were still based on the premise of “exchange” that was the basis of money. I wanted to go beyond that, and decided to create a system where people would help each other not because they were getting something in return, but simply because someone needed some help.

LC: How did the site develop and evolve?

MB: A web developer and myself built it over a period of about six months, making it up as we went along. If I were to do it again, I’d have done it differently. But somehow it seemed to work, and despite the absence of funds – shoestring would be a euphemism – we had over 50,000 members. In some areas there was a real strong sense of community, in others in didn’t really take off at all.

LC: Are you still friends with/in touch with people you met on the network?

MB: I met many wonderful people through my local group at the time, which was in Bristol, some of whom I’ve been friends with ever since. Doing something for nothing for someone (and vice versa) has a knack for creating strong bonds between people. Through managing the site, I also made a lot of friends globally, and I collaborate on various projects with some of them to this day.

LC: Did you offer your skills much?

MB: Yes, on top of managing the global project, I also ran a freeskilling evening once a week for my local group, where one person in the community would come and show anywhere between 20 and 250 people how to do a particular skill – everything from making rocket stoves to carpentry and clothes repair. I’d help people with gardening or foraging, and – rather ironically – I helped a local charity, who had contacted me through the site, with their accounts. Similarly, many people helped me also.

LC: Do you view it as a success?

MB: I think it served people well at a particular time, and perhaps helped form some of the philosophical structure of the gift and sharing economy projects that have come after it. However, with the pace of technological change and my lack of money, we couldn’t keep up, and in the end we merged with another project who were better set up to serve its members. Projects like Impossible and Streetbank do a much better job now of what I was doing then.

LC: How hopeful are you that the digital landscape will enable us to reconnect to the gift economy?

MB: I think the gift economy is still alive, if to a slightly diminished degree, in places where people know each other well – the family home, groups of friends, rural communities and so on. Where I think the digital world plays a role is in enabling people to engage in gift economies is in urban areas, where anonymity and social norms make it difficult for people to interact in such a spirit through more natural avenues. Five years ago I was very hopeful that the digital world would facilitate the re-emergence of gift economies. These days there is no more need for hope – pioneering projects such as couch-surfing, freecycle, impossible and streetbank are already out there doing it, and the more people see the danger of putting all their economic eggs in the financial basket, the more they are diversifying their personal economies and coming to projects like these in huge numbers.

LC: What does the gift economy mean to you?

MB: A gift culture, I suppose, was originally a generic term used mostly by anthropologists to describe many of the societies that existed prior to the notion of money. In these societies, labour and materials were shared according to social norms and without any explicit agreement about what the giver would receive in return, if anything. Nowadays, it’s often used to describe any way of matching up those who need something – whether it be a skill, a tool, a couch to sleep on – with those who can help, in a way in which nothing is expected directly in return – except, perhaps, for a thankyou and the feeling of helping someone for no other reason than you can.

LC: Do you see a relationship between the gift economy and sustainability?

MB: Yes and no, to varying degrees. I think if a gift economy is localised and low-tech, then it can play a crucial role in enabling us to live in harmony with the Great Web of Life. In a high-tech, more globalised format, I think its sustainability merits are more marginal. That said, even in a global context the gift economy is enabling us to use our resources more efficiently. But it’s a complex issue – in a high technology world, who is to say that the money someone saves by getting their sofa from Freecycle isn’t then spent on some product or activity with an even higher ecological impact? Unless they burn the money they saved, it is going to get spent on something eventually, and in a high-tech, globalised world, that is usually on something I would consider entirely unsustainable. But there are so many other psychological, emotional and social benefits to gift economies that, regardless of their ability to reduce our ecological footprint, they are very worthwhile endeavours on the basis of this alone.

LC: What are your plans for the space you are developing in Ireland now?

MB: I moved back to Ireland last year, where we have set up a permaculture- and gift-based project called An Teach Saor (Gaeilge for The Free House). Here we started plans to produce all our needs from the land around us, and to share its fruits with both our neighbours and the people who pass through it. I’m in the process of finishing a building – made from cob, cordwood, wattle and daub and other natural materials – which will open as a free community event space next year. Here we intend to run free courses and workshop, evenings of music and storytelling, skill-sharing, feasts and even serve up some moneyless homebrew. People can stay there for free too, so if they’ve had a couple of drinks there is no need to drive home!

LC: Do you consider yourself religious or spiritual?

MB: I think we’ve all got a spiritual side, whether we acknowledge it or not. But I am not religious or spiritual in the traditional or New Age sense. I suppose in some ways the closest thing I could describe myself as in an animist, and I see God in everything from the smallest creature to the largest tree.

LC: Do you think our society has got it really wrong?

MB: I think the human experiment took a wrong turn over 10,000 years ago. Agriculture, as Jared Diamond once said, is a catastrophe from which we’ve never recovered. Most of us don’t even know what we’ve lost, because we’ve never experienced it. We’ve designed human societies around toxic technologies that are driving a mass extinction of species, and an ecological meltdown that our generation has no real understanding of – we’re an ecologically illiterate people. We’re laying waste to majesty and splendour of the Earth, and have created a world where belongings are more important than belonging. Yet one can still look around and see so much beauty, in the wild landscapes that still exist and within the most intimate parts of human relationship that have yet to be monetised. I think it’s important to be honest about what we are doing to the Earth, and still love all the wonders that continue to resist the invasion of The Machine.

LC: If you have a kid, how will you try and negotiate teaching them the value systems you believe in, and the contemporary modern world’s systems?

MB: I’ve had a vasectomy, so this is a hypothetical question for me. And not being a parent, I am probably unqualified to comment. But that said, its an important question. Personally, I think providing an example is a much better way of passing on values to our young than telling them how to live. Children are much more honest than adults, and they believe what they see. If they are around loving and generous adults every day, they’re more likely to manifest those values themselves. They’ll inevitably learn the values of the modern world – of which I am not much of a fan – from their interaction with it, and there is not much you can do about that. But teaching them that there is another way of being human, one not based on the social norms of modern culture, is probably the greatest gift you can give them. What they then do with that is up to them.

Lily Cole is the founder of impossible.com.

You can find out more about Mark at web.archive.org/web/2012110123 (archived)

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"Future is Unwritten" ? or PRE-WRITTEN? 

"Future is Unwritten" (seen in picture)

Reminds me of that people are trying to make our lives predetermined !

THE PAST tries to dictate the THE FUTURE... and THIS phenomena is a BIG PAIN IN THE BUTT!

They are trying to PRE-SET everything...

Hence the term used in many ways to start again.

How do we reset shit things and all these and future-shaping things from the past and determine the unused / over-restrictive ones?

Future is getting more narrow and MORE written it seems... and that is a death or type of fascism!

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Not sure of the context of the quote in this picture (maybe because it is war related it might mean:

- "nobody is sure what will happen next"

or

- "you write the future in your actions / participation"

(something like that)

Not sure if Joe said what's pictured ad how/where - but I wanted to use it to highlight it's more and more "written" in that sense every day.

Not sure how to counter that or indeed if there is a RESET switch! 🔌 :lightning_bolt:

Source: Minstrel Boy - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Complete)

invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=-I9_p

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No changing some people... We try too hard in the same way! 

Spending time talking with people that don't understand even the obvious?

For those that don't understand helping people... some people will never understand or have chosen in a big way even if they don't tell you!

It's also for US to get the message - sometimes it's really NO to changing their ways!

Text in picture:
For those that don't understand helping people... 1 woman in this picture is thinking about going back
to rescue the shoes while friend is screaming: "Are you crazy?!"

Lesson is: Don't expect people to react to obvious crises because when you try help people
it can be with those same who already had obvious limits!

⭐ We need to get that and find another way!

It's often circular and we need spirals of change!

No changing some people...

Including us changing and NOT trying too hard in the same-same ways trying to 'wake' people up!

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💩 back to Earth not the toilet 🚽 !... Give a shit by giving it back to Earth as Brown gold :gold: / Humanure + Planting for the future... 

+ for - mixing and giving back to Earth's biology, back to soil.

Find a safe place and mix rather than down the 🚾 🚽

Shit mixed with the compost = value + goes back to earth 🌏 = growing stuff 🌱 🍄 🍆

Give a shit mean 💩 back to Earth not the toilet 🚽 !... and planting for the futur. Brown :gold: / Humanure

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Polite avoidance vs. Ignoring people [Those in Power & Control] 

Polite avoidance of people is almost the the same or mirror spectrum of ignoring people and being overly direct about it.

Similar to how passive aggressive over time and being aggressive directly is very similar result.

Here is an alternate arrangement of text to show Polite + Ignoring are similar mirror spectrum:

➡️ polite avoidance
(being indirect about it)
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➡️ ignoring people
(being direct about it)

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Further comparison below
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➡️ Polite avoidance can be aggressive from people who have power and don't give it up or share it - so they just ignore people over time instead and hope the "go away".

That could be considered passive-aggressive as responsibility is shirked to answer an obvious or repeated question and leave it hanging talking about things around... At the same time someone overly asking questions can be similar in aggression but usually there is a clear power differential to why the subject is being asked or even exists (management not showing their plans for example or what they chose in the past) and it's a power play of sorts to let people stay frustrated and get to boiling point wanting them to do something rash and effectively kick themselves out (of the forum or job) instead of addressing the / or subjects.

Especially if you are providing a service or relationship but don't want someone there / don't see the point of their existence and ignoring how slack you are in reply - this might be used. Admin might even enjoy others suffering or the "I need you" factor and frequent messages for help (attachment theory)

Polite ignorance can make people look good as it seems wild someone is lashing out, while ni the background the people in control are still doing similar to other masters just less obviously.
So if you see people get angry suddenly it can be over time it's got to them, and really it works.

Which is why it's better for humanity to sort things sooner than let them hang and for it to build up in people to them to potentially take that accumulation and vent it elsewhere.

➡️ ignoring people (being direct about it) is more obvious and clear. Telling people what you think and being direct about it. Not much more to say about this section as the post was about how similar this point is with the polite kind.

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People need to feel the fire first or smell the smoke to act 🔥 perhaps feel the cold also for the brain to change stance / determination Wim Hof)... :blobfreezing:

While I don't propose pushing people into the fire or burning their stuff to get the to a stage of "Reset" or pushing them into freezing water to get the effect - it's good to somehow emulate / practise it in smaller form... mind chemistry changes for a bit... Resilience starts, Fear disappears...

So in the mind perhaps with a story but also some other ways "jumping in" (I don't know all the ways but have some)

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/ Good / / Helps
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A real relationship helps to be like you friend or live it fuller / more honestly). Being alone is hard to change sometimes as a person is less seen and witnessed / less cared for from changing from A to B, the kudos etc. Could be simply 💲 :arrow_following: :cc_nc: ❤️ :cc: more often

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I don't belong because I'm not for money / debt... 

It's not just what I do. It's Ubuntu (what we do activity / community defines all others to a large extent)

I often feel the opposite is true from the phrase which makes thinking of people doing mistake often in a operating system or see the picture for better sense of people / debt in the equation:

" I don't belong because I'm not for money / debt. "

So other people who are "all in" in that respect (most of you) are therefore blocking me incrementing out something / and are doing something damaging as a mostly money-orientated 'community' not even able to reply to your cause online.
Just donations or nothing.

Not looking to get out of this debt or bad work is bad and worse is not using the free-orientated people which over means you the consent to that "it's ok" or "it's just the way it has to be and I'll have no part to change it" to which I say NO IT DOES NOT WORK. WE SEE IT ALREADY. OPEN YOU EYES.

ARE CREATORS / DEATH BY NUMBERS and the "good" stuff built on that are only aesthetics / false living. Use the free even if we have to use money. Just don't go all in and do "the people work" as much as that might mean re-training yourself to adapt to those people.

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If "Systems" are a way of doing things, then "Social" could be about bringing people together as it's main purpose. Add your opinions! 

More of us working on the social side of things. This is what this post is about.

Can you help?

If "Systems" are a way of doing things, then "Social" could be about bringing people together as it's main purpose.

That's the TLDR ! Please comment on what you think so far!

And if you get confused with the rest of the micro-points then come back to top to remind yourself!

If "Systems" ultimately come with the "missing parts" as the Humans themselves, then all our interaction / exploration is VITAL for our own health / development within that shell...

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MORE INTERACTION? ORCHESTRATED HARMONY?
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We (humans) need more human interaction and half *orchestrated* stuff basically because alone we're severely limited and unimaginative as you might agree. Our work and family are often not the right places to train all this and comes back to risking our shelter and income that way, so places of less extremes in potential outcomes.

Born in Capitalism I think is the perfect answer from being very limited and narrow minded (lacking experience) and that's FROM not being together (people from cosmopolitan areas might be less racist naturally but not talking to anyone that your own you're really limited to experience of XYZ culture).

Surprisingly team work can happen INSTANTLY and we do find out place or get amazed by suggestions to do it more than our blind spots we had FOR YEARS!. Saves us time I feel. Small teams are also fine so no need assume only big or only small. Jump around!

(AGAIN) FEEDBACK FROM READING TO HERE IS OK OR KEEP TAB OPEN !
My love goes out to whatever we do already - not trying to change you to breaking levels! Let's just do it together and take on any paranoia etc at the same time... because we're also losing time while some shysty people are developing bad work and making that systematic.

More about what I think about things and how they could be done is below.

TLDR: Instances could be better populated or just encourage much more of a frequency for actions such as specific real-talk by it's users for XYZ pictures to be painted / presented at the end, and that sometimes we have to create or use from our own repertoire. "Fake it until you make it" also isn't bad here because "you make it from whoever shows up" so it could be a 'drawing' workshop that tries a bit of painting if someone else turns up or the people take it turns to bring for THEMSELVES what they do or what they think of your workshop from a different viewpoint/skill/discipline!
All is related or can be relative my Einstein friend.
All are unique too which I believe balances the non-Einstein-looking people.

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SO WHAT'S THE REST OF THIS? (POINTS YOU CAN SKIP ACCORDING TO WHAT YOU LIKE)
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Each paragraph is a main point and key lines with █ at the start.

█ You could say that Social IS doing that togetherness right now.

It might be that I think it's not doing that 'enough' and want to show it here HOW IT ISN'T to see and compare how you think about it (you think individuals are doing enough in life?). Maybe Systems shouldn't be that type of assistance to users, like a more caring parental type of encouragement for it's population (by those who want, not everyone wants that's ok). But I'm hoping there is always a way for those up for more of a chat or personal improvement as a more regular / constructive thing but we just don't know how or where to begin and there is no button for "I'M UP FOR A CHAT RIGHT NOW, WHO ELSE IS THERE?" to just jump right into a chat - example is instant:
jitsi.riot.im/freetalk (no signup, no account, no-install, all browsers, light-weight JUST THIS IS SURE PART OF WHAT WE DO!

█ So I'd like you to balance me in my perceptions, because largely it seems humans are missing / not showing up or not shown better ways themselves (even or other experts can be misunderstood let alone individuals - even if not everyone wants to be understood I think it's very human to get that out from ourselves and feel moer free / understood / truthful).

We can assume many simply wouldn't want to participate and "that's just life" but I'm even happy for others to use us as another kind of TV shit-show / freakshow as it's a lot more nearer to what they participate in (again more tempted whereas mainstream they are too far away). So chances are still better and people might send a comment / audio / video as helping the educational-entertainment rather than entertainment-education). If I'm correct then I can see what we can all do from what we do already and it's a overall big relief either way if people say more clearly "the why/why not for this and that".

█ Maybe in this text "I see the 'how' in chatting and you don't see it" OR "you see what I'm totally missing or reality". Like you'll come back with "people don't have time" and I'll show you people have a lot of time for BS as long as it pushes the right buttons (which we could do instead). If you can show there isn't better way almost lol... which is hard to do! If there isn't any potential and this is the best we're going to get from life I think I'd like more test than opinions of how motivated you are. If one of you decent admin who know what money is as a farce, then we can really open up talking properly and crack some eggs!

With your logical input and soem "Aha" on my side I'm happy to entertain stopping but there isn't anyone who doesn't like talking or seeing others talk. Thanks for any comments!

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SO WHAT IS THE REAL LEVEL OF 'HUMANITY' AT THE MOMENT, WHO KNOWS?
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Right now we probably can say Humanity is not really at the level I want because they are simply no present or having a way (me asking people to enter jitsi chat is not the best way you'll agree and needs a lot of faith to jump in like that, so we need something better). And without grouping the whole world in to over generalising it as 'not present enough to gauge', I am seeing the same at micro or macro level so the systematic sides to that are worth blaming AND ALSO FIXING - it's not just about putting on the individual to say things say "it's up to you to fix things without my help" (lol this is possibly the worst phrase and death to humanity!)

Another phrase is "you have to be independent" when that doesn't exist (especially with system that ties everyone in even if it looks unrelated/disconnected).
Both those phrases don't exist in world fucking up things LARGE! And basically (and simply) we need more mass to achieve, accumulate, increment and not much else perhaps. Not all or nothing either - just regularly more little things ! (being present or adding more and 'the worldly' things. And all will come together in similar chained/better-connected way).

It's maybe this part of mass you don't understand or feel you have to go "all in" or nothing works. And again that's also blamed on the system or systematic patterns for training us it's on or off or we can't do it ourself until it's made very professionally. People doing something towards the aim for togetherness is in between of on and off state- call it learning or exploration / analogue / dialogue. Perhaps a type of 'human algorithm' comes to mind where Twitter and commercial services solved that continuation of activity by recommending who is in our area and has similar like in our posts or the description boxes entered in the Bio.

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OK DUDE WHAT'S THE PART WHERE I SAY "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?... AND I'LL DO IT!"
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
+ CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION (LIKE COMMUNITY WORK YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO)
+ BEING AWARE OF BAD SYSTEMS AND ENTERTAINING EXITING THE HORRIBLE "GIFT" SHOP OF LIFE
+ DOING LESS BAD WAYS PERSONALLY IN YOUR LIFE / HELPING OTHERS

= HELPS MY LIFE LIKE THE UBUNTU WAY OF LIFE (WHERE YOUR LIFE ACTIVITY AFFECTS MINE) AND INCREASES ALL OUR CHANCES. Get how that works (and how it doesn't work in my life without you?)

Right now we have a "free blog" type system which even without having adverts or commercial mining is great but still isn't enough to grow or solve life. Just more one-way bloggers! THANK YOU FOR THE FREE LUNCH BUT the world isn't solved from that.
Doesn't help the "Give people better work to do" side of things to increment better communications. We can hobble along giving free like that and not need to do things personally together in life towards one big Ubuntu family, but we are all getting hammered out here AND WE NEED TO GLUE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING together as value from "the people" because it is all we have and need to do as "best we can do" and accept it's simply not Capitalism or trojan horse quality.
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IMPROVING THE "HUMAN ALGORITHM" (HOW WE DO THINGS OR MORE WITH HUMANS LESS MACHINES)
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For good reasons not 'those things' is good while mixing up ways as our own algorithms (human algo's). So "we the people do need 'something more' and 'it will look shoddy at first with trial and error but we will find great friends to enjoy and are upgrading our own ability as we go - upgrading ourself through others (?!) in the effort towards many MANY MORE things in life (too many to deny- but call it 'everything', call it love perhaps). So "Freedom away from things that cheat us" as a general goal but allowing emotional intelligence to come to the foreground and as the main practice and work (call it therapy or the caring capitalism skipped totally for generations) and even helping each other solve other things - although I think arguable everything is solved, once the start and end of all communications (emotions) is out there.

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PROCESS THE EMOTIONS AS KEY TO EVERYTHING ELSE?
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When we are happy at the start and end of it all (and finding out why for things) then all the magic is done as "happy humans" do things fast and time flies. While playing our favourite music track on repeat and seeing donations come in to our favourite things that capitalism won't pay for directly, means we can really go further than capitalism and help it all get done without big commercial payment and .

Process emotions as you go and you could possibly solve or improve / unleash all the ways /motivation to solving the rest of the problems (mostly it's the motivation or method discovery because "I don't have time" or "you can't move away from Google" is usually a lie and mostly about the method and knowing even the limitation and accepting it more gladly to work towards it as the "justice" (personal and to others not getting mined by your communications). And so we reduce the fluctuating noise signals that come up in communications with more calm loving people doing better constantly with better people or at least in 'therapy mode' accepting people are not perfect but there in the circle to help each other do better, not kill each other in chat.

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BETTER ATTENTION TOWARDS HUMAN QUALITY INSIDE MORE THAN MACHINES EXTERNALLY
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Admins and programmers are largely victorious in mastering everything - we don't actually need more - just maintenance perhaps of things being the main thing which we see people instance doing - but now we have largely have go to the stage creating new things between each other that actually filling the human way or doing "what is not doing the human parts". Doing more programming and machine work with "human improvement work" perhaps is just allowing capitalism to take your work and plug it into their evil machine. We rather need human work of personal improvement as more of the "untouchable" change and mind power and not external machine-orientated control gates or code that forces things on people (other than voice or video chats and texting what do we need? Just people organising that and we're done).

What I see fit or better or even personally need is much more socially embracing than that for those that want and not just "alone together" like every other system almost.

Am I wrong in that last line of paragraphs above?

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QUESTIONS SHOWING BETTER HOW HARD IT IS TO MEASURE THINGS AND POTENTIAL FOR CHANGING:
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█ Scared people - How many people are scared that stops interaction? (it's hard to measure but surely exists and though I respect it, it's much like people scared to learn about life itself or go to school together. It's unavoidable and avoidable only at *all* our cost/detriment as we become non-players in life, feeding commercial consumption and interaction.

█ Learning / therapy - how many want to do that?
Going to back to a kind of social school where freedom and expression IS appreciated- rather than the "do as your told" style of places or banning people. What we need is more of a progressive accumulation of 'something' as a goal, training people as we go, where usually *we change* what is typically called "work" as "make money" and FORGETTING about individuals / treating them as disposable.

█ How much is me thinking there more potential when there isn't?
This what I want to find out and ask for your input... I think it can work even if you're different - let's say you might not believe in loving / accepting all people in this way... Is that the end of the story? IS THIS is all part of life and finding a way itself (your view on accepting people / self-love itself?).

█ Being each others Wonderwall as the fun in life ?
We might agree the current "System" by state doesn't serve us this love or wonder / trains us badly and is largely missing many things. And I compare all that to the social where we are also not aiming for better perhaps and could be....
"Because just maybe... you're going to be the one that saves me"
(Wonderwall by Oasis) invidious.fdn.fr/search?q=oasi
Lyrics - azlyrics.com/lyrics/oasis/wond

█ How much do people want to help each other or causes?
Different levels of social or anonymous but just not "not to play at all" levels as default encouragement. YES I can message someone but there isn't the justice of reply or incentive of mutually solving anything clearly which is like the glue below us (in solidarity or whatever) - so fear or looking at appearances takes over...
As example try messaging a group on Fediverse, you hardly get a reply, nobody is there to reply! And then people are afraid to debate or take feedback that way... it's just all or nothing or one-way profiles (even by things claiming to help people which maybe it is in other ways).

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I NEED A SYSTEM THAT BRINGS OUT BEST IN ME AND IMPROVES THE WORST
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"The System" and the users could help interpret me better but currently it's more cold-functional than aiming for warmth and proving I'm a good person and multiply what good efforts I can do for others. Giving energy even for free I accept need management but often it can SIMPLY BE: DRAW US A PICTURE AND SEND IT and then people manage the work and pick what suits. Like a light-hearted competition to achieve the best between us while paying kudos (like anims and retro-video people do).

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HELP PEOPLE TEST (THEMSELVES) AMONGST OTHERS REGULARLY
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Largely people are expected to do the human parts on their own... which is the problem, but also the potential I see. So the "If I were the admin" then really mingling with people and see what they want and serving them the power to do it / test it is what will either grow people or help see "that's not it, I tried it, back to the drawing board"

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ORCHESTRATION NEEDED
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Even though there might be a large user base, it's largely un-orchestrated and could be for those who are able. And then to let those with less time or less ability to then come along more casually to something better organised - since some people can do it often or even non-stop and then that encourages everyone. If everyone doesn't start something or shy away because it looks bad or doesn't exist, then it only compounds that problem of not testing it at the least.

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IF IT'S JUST ME (TO START WITH) THEN AT LEAST WE CAN TEST THAT PART OUT NOW
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If I'm the "archetype" here (someone with energy and time at whatever level) then it's this solving of all personal things that we must do together that *enhances* all other things (and we have enough users to do that).
I'm sure this is just not my imagination though nobody is taught to sit and listen in order to sort it all out right? We are compartmentalised and think that works? NOOOor
In our imagination there are more ways of doing more together, and measurably this can tells us what works more and helps us get better at working in more ways! It's like schools that did things so rigidly it cuts out whole different ways of doing things.

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Money can't buy this cooperation.
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Other than compartmentalise and buy each other through a complex Capitalist system - surely we can do better than letting them siphon and tax our energy, time, money
Some chat sites do this well with "random" button or could be "random with these keywords". Dating sites also for example do it well (but that's also about sex so not as healthy but at least they get what they both want right? Which is what the exploration with people in general can do - not just always about sex).

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ALMOST ASK "WHAT'S THE WORST WAY AND WORST OUTCOME and do you get to similar conclusion to bind together as I do ?
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Humans not helping each other more personally basically is the isolation we complain about (in everything, you see it on social all the time).

While I understand people don't want the cruel "till the end" type of working it all out. That is exactly what is needed!

Aesthetics and ignoring the underlying problems (including us being more calmer and finding solutions amongst ourselves) is THE WAY FORWARD!

FOR ME PERSON is literally devaluing people and at the same time doesn't help as it's 'defunding' people using debt material added to a system dilute it all, made from the very Banks themselves (shops that sell debt as the foundation for all life(!) and reasons for any unhealthiness / numerical cancer transferred to reality / lack of caring and less emotions for each other as I'm sure they don't care for people just money!).

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