Metamodern Municipalism

A New Theory of Change

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Self-isolation is why uncontacted tribes survive today

Over 100 tribes today deliberately avoid interaction with outsiders — the impact of infectious diseases is one reason why

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Brazil’s uncontacted tribes in peril from the COVID-19 crisis

Uncontacted tribes have no resistance to common diseases like flu or measles, let alone coronavirus.

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Notes on Counterculture

Then and Now: 1960s, 2020s

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As Boris plans to ease the lockdown, progressives seem poised to make a catastrophic mistake- flatly opposing him.

Since the birth of the welfare state from the ashes of the second world war, those of us who identify as progressive have usually felt…

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Myth, Wisdom & Pandemic, Stephen Jenkinson, Zak Stein & Charlotte Du Cann

Over the last month, Rebel Wisdom has been interviewing some of the brightest minds in systems change and complexity to make sense of the crisis an...

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Corona: Seven Ways to Smash the Curve Now

Everyone knows they need to act now to stop the coronavirus.

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8 Tips for framing Covid-19

Why waste time in a pandemic analysing language?

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Our Genome’s Viral Graveyard

How viral DNA has shaped human evolution

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Week 2: Coronalinks

Two weeks ago, I published an article which desperately asked for people to read the data presented on COVID-19, think in systems, and use…

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Covid 19 Situational Assessment, Risk Landscape & Possible Solutions, Daniel Schmachtenberger

In this fast changing and overwhelming pandemic crisis, what is really going on, and what should individuals and governments do? Daniel Schmachten...

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COVID-19 and the failure of our belief-systems

Danger makes us curl up and defend our prejudices. It’s a crisis not just in health, but in our ability to make sense of things.

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In Partnership with Holo, Terran Collective is Building Hylo: the Collaboration Platform for a Regenerative Future

The transition to a world that works for all will require unprecedented collaboration — and powerful tools to support that work. In an…

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How unprocessed trauma is stored in the body

When all is well, our brain is the greatest supercomputer on earth. A complex network of about 100 billion neurons, it’s not only great at…

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A summary of Bonnita Roy’s ‘Six ways to go meta’

We live in fascinating times, where all this global political turmoil motivates various new ways of thinking and solving problems.

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How to think about the meta-crisis without getting too excited.*

The emergency is about the urgency to act. The crisis is about the need to transform. The meta-crisis is the tenacity of our inertia.

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James Lovelock "We Humans are a Good Thing"

Listen to this episode from Team Human on Spotify. Playing for Team Human today, author, centenarian, environmentalist, futurist, and scientist, Ja...

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Compersion or Mudita: Unlearning Jealousy the Buddhist Way

Have you heard of “compersion”? Definitions abound but the layman summary could be: “the opposite of jealousy”. It covers any positive…

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The Metamodern Flame

“Look again and you will see the Gods rise in the most human and unassuming of eyes.” — Kate Tempest

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People, Practices & Place

A Simple Structure to Hold a New Microsolidarity Community

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Blockchain Zero

When I discovered the blockchain six years ago, I was completely hooked. The excitement from this technology and what it can do for…

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Towards a Metamodern Spirituality

What would a spirituality look like that actually helped us confront the many crises of our world?

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The Religion of No Religion

A short commentary on John Vervaeke’s Awakening from The Meaning Crisis (Episodes 37, 38, and 39)

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How To Weave Social Fabric

3 Essential Pillars For a New Mutual Aid Community

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Can regenerative economics & mainstream business mix?

Or, is it even possible to create regenerative businesses in a degenerative economic system?

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A Journey To GameB

January 13, 2019  Twitter: @jim_rutt  mini-bio

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Sex Is Better If You Exercise

If you want to have more fun in bed, try getting off the couch

We need to talk about geoengineering

Geoengineering is not an alternative to reducing our CO2 emissions. But it may give us the time and breathing space to transform our…

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A very short story about peace

A lot of 1st-time visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand have an experience they can’t articulate e.g. they might say “I feel like I’ve come…

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This is How a Society Dies

America and Britain are Textbook Examples of a New, Gruesome Phenomeon: Rich Nations Self-Destructing Into Poor Failed States

It is time to reinvent our organisations!

“Lack of responsibility”, “lack of connection”, “top down” “individual agenda”, “suppression, keeping things in” “anxiety” “slavery”.

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Re-balancing company ownership through guardian shares

As a general rule, ownership brings responsibility. If you own a car that pollutes, or a dog that injures another creature, you can be…

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A Taxonomy For LAOs: Making Sense of the Emerging LAO Ecosystem

Interest in LAOs has been growing. We unpack why LAOs are useful and provide an overview of the types of LAOs that likely will be created…

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How Your Negative Emotions Can Literally Make You Sick

The opposite is true, too: Positive feelings promote physical wellness

Extinction Rebellion: We Need To Talk About The Future

Extinction Rebellion needs to become a movement that talks about justice. It needs to change — and it needs to change now.

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Who’s Idea Was it Anyway?The Role of Source in Organizations

Today’s topic looks at the importance of identifying the starting point of an idea or a project. Who was the original creator, the…

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Genesis 1.0 | Mission, Principles, and Structure

Mission, Principles, and Structure

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The Imperative of Apocalyptic Witchcraft

We are present, manifest in flesh and dream. We return, with the vengeance of love singing through our veins.

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11 Practical Steps Towards Healthy Power Dynamics at Work

More empowerment, less coercion

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Hierarchy Is Not the Problem…

…It’s the Power Dynamics

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Madam President: “We knew”

This is speculative fiction. What if the United States fails to treat the climate emergency as an emergency through successive elections…

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Dude, where’s my paradigm shift?

People have been heralding a new paradigm to replace materialism for over 140 years. Why hasn’t it happened? I asked some leading thinkers.

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Are we over-medicalizing suffering?

The unintended consequence of the ‘well-being revolution’ may be that we feel ever more helpless.

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Celo’s Theory of Change

Celo’s mission is to build a new monetary system that creates conditions of prosperity for all. This is an ambitious goal. So the team…

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The Safer Sex Conversation

by Crystal Dawn Morris, www.TantraForAwakening.org https://sexualrenaissance.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Six-Safe-Sex-Points-Handout.pdf

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Building equitable circular societies

Applying human-centred circular principles, tax shifts and crypto-currencies to better design our societies.

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Instead of breaking up big tech, let’s break it open

From advocates, politicians and technologists, calls for doing something about Big Tech grow louder by the day. Yet concrete ideas are few…

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Existential Risk Holds a Hidden Gift

This weekend I joined tens of thousands of people in a “Grief March”, led by Extinction Rebellion through the middle of London.

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A Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft

1. If the land is poisoned, the witchcraft must respond.

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Kierkegaard On Using Existential Anxiety to One’s Advantage

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and social critic who is often described as the father of existentialism…

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125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible

This week’s guest is living legend, transdisciplinary scientist-philosopher Stuart Kauffman, whose pioneering work on self-organization and the eme...

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Towards Complex Governance Systems

This Context Paper was written in the context of my work as part of the DGOV (Distributed Governance) Foundation where we are developing a…

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The future is teal

Perspectives on organization design for today’s startups

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How post-industrial capitalism and a new type of big data will save the planet

We need transparency, accountability and trust to govern the world, and Mattereum will deliver it

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DAICO vs ICO. What is DAICO? How DAICO better than traditional ICO?

What is DAICO?

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I Will If You Will

Conditional Commitment for Civil Disobedience

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The Dai Stablecoin is a Game Changer for Ethereum and the Entire Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

In later December of 2017, the company Maker released their long-awaited system for a decentralized stablecoin named “Dai”. Dai is an…

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Regen Network 1-Minute Product Overview

Head of Product Sara De Moitie walks through the Regen Network user platform using our pilot project with the Rainforest Foundation as an example. ...

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The Rise of the Emergentsia

Meaning-Making for the Meta-Crisis

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The Intellectual Deep Web? Peter Limberg

In the viral article "The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0", Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes described how the binary right/left culture war of the...

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Rebel Wisdom Summit - Get Ready!

If you are watching this - you're coming to the Rebel Wisdom Summit on the 12th May. Look forward to seeing you there. We mentioned a few differen...

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Reality Check 2019, Jordan Greenhall

In his viral hit after the Trump election 'Deep Code: Situational Assessment 2017', Jordan Greenhall sketched out a framework for understanding the...

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Holochain: Reinventing Applications

Holochain is a framework for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is not based on blockchain technology. Nor is…

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11 Practical Steps Towards Healthy Power Dynamics at Work

More empowerment, less coercion

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