The Great Debate: Anarchism versus Brutalism (compiled from recent posts at New World Dreaming Substack, by Nowick Gray) Introductory Remarks I would like to introduce […]
Is a ‘climate lockdown’ coming?
With what feels like a distinct ramping up of the reporting of weather events and the meshing of that into the broader discussion about climate, it’s understandable that a number of people are starting to think that maybe there’s an agenda being played out’.
Beyond Extinction
‘They stole the children from the land. Now they want to steal the land from the children.’ —Tahltan protest sign, Kabloona Keepers On the small island […]
Complexity, collapse and radical change
As society becomes ever more complex, as well as becoming harder to develop any overview of how it functions, it’s also becoming more vulnerable to disruption and eventually collapse.
Attachment, connection and a search for meaning
Among the various currents of protest against the way the Covid situation was leveraged to accelerate the 4IR, there are those of us doing what we can to join the dots and understand what’s being done to us and why. In the process of doing that, a fair few of us have moved beyond the political labels we once had and we once, sometimes proudly, wore.
Trying to understand the situation we’re in…
It’s only when you start to pull all of the disparate threads of the ongoing clusterf**k together that it becomes frighteningly obvious we’re heading towards some kind of system failure, possibly even a collapse. What this piece is attempting to do (quite possibly in vain) is to try and analyse why we are where we are and then establish what, if anything, we can do to save ourselves.
Fuck the Inquistion!
The occasional similarity in rhetoric between radical eco-anarchist thought and a certain strand of Nazi ideology has long provided a source ammunition for enemies of radical green thinking.
The End of Their World is the Beginning of Ours!
Anarchism is the antithesis to oppression, and for this reason the scourge of totalitarianism will give rise to a new generation of revolutionaries.
Ted Kaczynski Tried to Warn Us
Will the social engineers of the future use social engineering tools such as social credit scores and social impact finance to co-create a more equitable and just world? Or are all of the buzzwords simply another mask for the next stage of colonialist-corporate-capitalism?
Global Capitalists want to financialize Nature Itself
The New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”
Envisioning a Post-Western World
If the society produced in Europe through centuries of bloody violence and subsequently unleashed to ravage the entire planet can be thought of as “civilization,” an intelligent human being can only conclude that this civilization is something which must be eradicated so thoroughly as to never again be obtainable.
Refuse to be afraid! Freedom is fearless love.
We must declare independence from the society of fear and declare our dependence upon the freedom of nature. A declaration that says that freedom is fearless love and that a society of fear can never know freedom.
THE TYRANNY OF THE CLOCK
Now the movement of the clock sets the tempo men’s lives – they become the servant of the concept of time which they themselves have made, and are held in fear, like Frankenstein by his own monster.
Defending Indigenous Sovereignty
It is time to start creating communities that are both able to sustain themselves on their own terms, and able to maintain their autonomy from the ever-present threats of industry and state.
It’s normal to share
Unless you venture out and seek out examples of existing intentional communities, they might seem like a naive fantasy. Once you visit a functional community, it just seems natural that people should live together in such a way.
The Feeblest Head of the Hydra: Oil Spills = Occupations
Stopping a new pipeline doesn’t make the world a better place – it just keeps it from getting worse. I don’t know about you, but I’m thirsty for something more.
Smash vitaphobia!
Here already we are in the realm of separation, a lost awareness of our shared belonging with all that lives outside our personal experience, a psychological retreat into the narrowest and shallowest levels of identity which are defined in terms of what, and who, they are not.
Denying reality: a dangerous delusion
In destroying the full metaphysical meaning of words like “essence”, “nature” or “universal” by means of their straw man constructs, the conformists of contemporary goodthink are destroying our connection to reality.