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I would only be reiterating what I have learn't from others, best you see the source where I can provide it or where someone just says in my opinion better than I. They are in an order that I think helps gets you to an end point that explains me.
Number 00 - A Seed
RSA - The Empathic Civilisation
Number 01 - The Idea
Dave Meslin - The antidote to Apathy
Number 02 - The Action
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
Number 03 - The Motivation
The surprising Truth about what motivates us
Number 04 - The Plan
The Coalition of the Willing
Number 05 - Some things to know
The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
Some other great quick clips
RSA - The Empathic Civilisation
On Food
Through the courtesy time and patience of a dear friend I have started to see the sense in "The Food is the Message", as nearly all world issues at one level or another seems to come back to food and the corporations attempts to sell us what they want irrespective of personal health costs, while our taxes/government pick up the health care costs.
Start with this one
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat
Other minds I greatly admire
Dr Clare W Graves - A Systems Conception of Personality
"Like the bud of the rose,
man at the first level is a tightly bound system
whose totality is yet to be.
All that is to be in man or rose is present but not seen and this,
all that is there, may never come to be.
As one may never know the full beauty and fragrance of the rose,
so too, may one never know the full flavor of human behavior."
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My Notes
Richard Neville
Shopping in the Apocalypse
A tragedy for humanity
Is that thinkers, philosophers & futurists, are 40 years ahead of politicians when it comes to sounding alarms.
With blistering clarity in a San Francisco newspaper in 1969 Kenneth Rexroth warned that an “extractive, accumulative society” will trigger human extinction.
He supported an Ecological Revolution in which the use of fossil fuels “would be brought to a complete stop”
An evolved system of values would treat the possession of too many goods as a disease.
This hasn’t quite happened, but only a fool or politician would dismiss the possibility.
It’s blowing in the wind.
Legislators have taken 40 years to admit the downside of extraction,
and will need to be dragged kicking and screaming into accepting
that carbon neutrality is hostile to Lear Jets, invasions and palaces.
There will be no shopping or lobbyists in the apocalypse.
A financial and eco meltdown will threaten hierarchies and foster rebellion…
perhaps even trigger a a re-evaluation of values.
Hang on to your hats.
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Richard's Blog
Paul B Hartzog - Panarchy
Back in 2004, i wrote a lengthy response to Alexander Wendt's amazing article “Why a World State is Inevitable." (Wendt, Alexander (2003) 'Why a World State Is Inevitable', European Journal of International Relations 9(4): 491-542.), but surfing the web of late has convinced me to bring it forward (finally).
Alexander Wendt begins his paper “Why a World State is Inevitable” with the following concise formulation of his intent: “In this article I propose a teleological theory of the ‘logic of anarchy’ which suggests that a world state is inevitable….” I offer the following equally concise opposition: In this article I propose a teleonomic theory of the ‘logic of panarchy’ which suggests that a world state is not inevitable. I suggest that the stable “state” for this teleonomic process is a global “complex adaptive system,” or governance network, in which the “logic of anarchy” gives way to the “logic of panarchy.”
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Joseph Gelfer - The Masculinity Conspiracy
What if the biggest conspiracy in human history had gone completely unnoticed?
What if that conspiracy was responsible for some of the biggest problems the world faces today?
Wouldn’t you want to know? Wouldn’t you want to do something about it?
The Masculinity Conspiracy discusses masculinity in a way very relevant to living in a Post Consumerist Societies. It argues that nearly every assumption about masculinity in contemporary society is wrong. The result is nothing short of exposing a worldwide conspiracy that has been preventing humanity from reaching its fullest potential.
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Samuel Alexander - Life Poets’ Simplicity Collective
The Life Poets’ Simplicity Collective is a grassroots ‘network of imaginations’ dedicated to creatively exploring, promoting, and celebrating a materially simple but inwardly rich life. Our planet needs us to explore alternative ways to live, and one promising way to lessen our impact on nature is to reject the high-impact lifestyles of consumer culture and voluntarily embrace ‘a simpler life’ of reduced consumption. But the simple life is arguably something which we should want to embrace even in the absence of the environmental crisis. The rat race of consumer culture is leading Western civilization (and increasingly global society) to a dead-end, and so the defining challenge of our age is to re-imagine ”the good life.” Human flourishing, it can be argued, does not consist in the limitless consumption and accumulation of money and materials possessions. Instead, it consists in the cultivation of social relationships and community engagement, self-development, creative activity, aesthetic and spiritual contemplation, connection with nature, and various other non-materialist sources of satisfaction and meaning. Furthermore, in an age where oceans of poverty exist amidst small islands of plenty, there are powerful humanitarian arguments for rejecting consumer culture. As Gandhi once said, ‘Live simply so that others may simply live.’
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Adam Curtis
Former politics lecturer at Oxford, his documentaries really challenge how much you think you know about our history and political system.
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The Century of Self - Watch 4 Episodes Here
By Adam Curtis, three parts. Public relations and propaganda in the 20th century. Brilliant, brilliant film.
Google Video
A favorite quote "Why should a financial engineer be paid four to one-hundred times more than a real engineer? A real engineer builds bridges. A financial engineer builds dreams. And when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it."
The Power of Nightmares - BBC
Watch Here The Living Dead - Wikipedia
Pandora's Box - Wikipedia
The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom - Watch Here Oh Dearism - Watch Here
Machines of Loving Grace - Watch 3 Episodes Here
Some other videos that have influenced my thinking
Self Organising Systems
Supercooperators: The mathematics of evolution, altruism and human behaviour - Watch Here
The Secret Life of Chaos - You Tube
Corporations
Government
David Cameron: The next age of government - Ted Talk
Pro Peace
Why We Fight - Wikipedia
Political/Media/News
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.
Kultur
Hearts Of Darkness
Environment
Whiteboard seminar with Johan Rockström: Introducing Planetary Boundaries - Whiteboard seminar