alternative systems

our time and energy is limited; face the way you want to go

Mentions

• “To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here “all roads to Mishnory”. To be sure, if you turn back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitable to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.” - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin

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• why ‘alternative systems’
  • revolt vs reform
  • things that must change slowly
  • things we’re all tasked with upholding
  • things that we’re doomed to repeat
  • discussion of strategy vs tactics
  • bottom up top down convergence
• gift economies in theory and practice
  • public conveniences
  • community-owned infrastructure
  • non-hierarchical organisations
  • abolition (alternatives to policing and justice system)
• symbiosis of theory and practise
• indieweb
• decentralisation
• etc