@teamhumanshow @rushkoff 1/ Tackle both, at once? Relocalizing experience *and* shedding reification's bastard claim on significance itself, essentially what it takes to get Real. Rohr: "The principle is this: we must struggle with the truth in one concrete place, and then universalize from there."
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Copy of tweet: 1/ 'Subsidiarity', in cyberspace and meatspace, a trend. In the locus of personal experience, we recalibrate our absorption, away from the mediated society of the Spectacle, toward where our wellbeing and that of our world finds its *truest* common ground: our home address.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: Big fan of Monbiot's prescience and acuity around the gravity of climate chaos, but clearly he's one full remove away from a 'prima facie' encounter with regenerative earthwork and its grounded insights into epistemologies and ideologies unhinged from co-evolutionary realpolitik. Quote tweet: Is it any wonder Kabir's no-nonsense appraisal of 'experts' fallen under the spell of their own abstractions holds such resonance for those of us schooled, daily, in the primordial, regenerative power and intelligence of the Real.
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Tweet: end/ We describe it as a relocalization of experience, in which a grounded, convivial, eco-social realm catalyzes and flourishes around a bio-cultural model of community, lived into manifestation, enriching human life beyond all comparison to material wealth, values and promise. Elsewhere..."Think of this as a revolution, not of guns, but of consciousness, which will be won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, eschatologies, and ecstasies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side." #GarySynder
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: Local consensus among those of us who've spent decades teaching kids and adults to raise food? The vast majority didn't commit to homecoming for real. So then, for most, an unreal life, adrift in wounds of abstraction, a revolving hall of mirrors, a war of all against all. Quote tweet: Amen, Billy. Hence, just now, the death of the hegemony of reification, certainly as it relates to the totalitarian Spectacle of political economy. I'm always profoundly struck by how difficult it is to describe such things. So, what will survive the separation of Life and Law?
@reggaj @joshuamschultz end/ At all levels, we're withdrawing from a cartoon caricature of reality and coming home to a functional, coherent, humane, relocalization of emphasis which concurrently frees us to immense pastures of cultural and ontological promise and possibility, previously withheld.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: 2/ Around larger, cultural polarization, we're grounding conflict resolution in the concrete, local particulars of face-to-face resolution, and universalizing from there. How does local peacemaking, network-scalable to, say, the level of state or planet, appear, in practice? Quote Tweet In 1999, during a period of pronounced civil unrest in Eugene, OR, I played a central role brokering a concordance between the NRA and anarchists, live, on local public-access television. My impressions? facebook.com/nick.routledge.39/posts/3419825268101439