#survivingthefuture

It's not given to me to know how the dead feel about their birthdays, but I today raise a glass to my late friend #DavidFleming, who would have been 85 today

For the legacy of inspiration which led, among so much else, to our whole #SurvivingTheFuture community, which another 50 folk will join next week

It's also not given to me to know how my life might have gone without him. Or if that question even makes sense..

But my gratitude is profound — thank you, dear man!
https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/113000449581507193

2/2 But I AM optimistic about community and strength in the growing realisation that #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCollapse is happening right now and that this is where we need to act from; that we still have each other, and this is not nothing.

I love the community we have here on #ClimateDiary. And I will be doing the #SurvivingTheFuture module with @DarkOptimism
this spring. Very much looking forward to it!

https://ecogather.ing/surviving-the-future/

One of our #SurvivingTheFuture crew points out that it's 50 years to the day since David Fleming's little poem "The Sea Cucumber" was written — in hearty defiance of the dangers of overspecialisation!

#HeresToTheSeaCucumber
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https://leanlogic.online/constructivism/

@markhburton @Lylamehta

And #FrugalHedonism is another wonderful book in the family!

Btw, #LeanLogic's available free and in full on this lovely website, custom-built by a fan (with the publisher's blessing):
https://leanlogic.online/

But @pvonhellermannn, if you still plan to join us for #TheDeeperDive, when you enrol you'll get free access to (both audio/text versions of) #SurvivingTheFuture, which I produced as a more accessible gateway to his work, so might help shrink your reading list!

@pvonhellermannn
Ah, thanks! I generally avoid series, but might add it to my handy "too braindead to do anything useful but not ready to sleep" list

Am currently halfway through (i.e. last night fell asleep halfway through!) impressive 2022 documentary #TheGrab — recommended by several of our #SurvivingTheFuture community — which came to mind several times while reading your #TragedyOfTheNonCommons piece. Devastating.

"Surviving the Future" #Quotes
Audio #Book Notes https://www.darkoptimism.org/Jimmy%20Buff%20Loves%20You%20-%20Surviving%20the%20Future,%20Chapter%201%20and%20Origin%20-%20RadioKingston_jimmy-buff-loves-you-surviving-the-future-origin-and-chapter-one.m4a

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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" Small-scale has it's own economies. "

Shorter transport distances
Less waste
Less infrastructure
More attention to detail
More flexibility

- Shaun Chamberlin = @DarkOptimism
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+ Audio #Book link
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"I was learning the art of living cheaply so I don't have to sell my time."

- Shaun Chamberlin = @DarkOptimism
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"Since 1970's - 70% of all wildlife has gone forever and not been replaced."

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My piece about Sterling College's forthcoming #SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive

With me, #VandanaShiva, #LylaJune, #NateHagens, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #RobHopkins and others!
Just an amazing experience, with spaces going fast..

(also a small conversational gathering later today, 7-8pm BST)

https://www.darkoptimism.org/2023/10/09/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2024/

I'm genuinely delighted to announce that enrolments for this winter's #SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive are now open - it's one of my favourite things!

Be among a small group exploring the future with me, #VandanaShiva,#LylaJune, #NateHagens and others.

The testimonials at the below link make me super-proud!

And all offered on trust-based pricing so that finances are no barrier to *anyone*.

Any questions, just ask, and hopefully we'll get to know each other soon!

https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive

From January, over 8 weeks, we'll build a small online community of 50 and discuss our times with the likes of #NateHagens, #StephenJenkinson, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #MarkBoyle, #SherriMitchell, #TimDeChristopher, #RobHopkins & #VandanaShiva.

I'll be running '#SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive' through Vermont's #SterlingCollege.

25 places still available, and *all on a trust-based inclusive basis* to ensure money's no obstacle to participation.

Today's blog post on't:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2022/11/27/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2023/

#Introductions

I'm an #author/activist who published 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy'.

Now leading #SterlingCollege's online program '#SurvivingTheFuture: Conversations for Our Time'.

I live with #MarkBoyle at #TheHappyPig, our #gifteconomy (free!) pub and bunkhouse.

And produced 2020 film 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?', inspired by my late mentor #DavidFleming, author of '#LeanLogic'.

#Introduction