CryptoTown Day 2 (orig Jan 22 2015 repost) — Create, Connect, Converge — Transition and Permaculture
This blog was originally hosted elsewhere, but this platform seems much better. I want to bring this work back for comparison to my current writing series. It was written two years ago in early 2015 because I knew that even if not enough people knew what I was up to at the time, it would still be documented for me to look back on. Compared with current work, much of this is fumbling in the dark, but its interesting to notice that many of the themes and concepts remain relevant and become more clear to me over time. The posts remain unaltered and outdated aside from this comment, the formatting, and navigation links at the bottom.
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Kickstarter: http://kck.st/1ul9X8g I attended the monthly Transition Barrie meet-up yesterday (third Wednesday of each month 7pm at City Hall).
A transition/permaculture video was screened titled Words from the Edge. Its worth a watch. I think that the most important points to me were that none of us know exactly what the future will look like or how this will work but we should explore with an open mind. Another challence is overcoming cognitive dissonance that states that we know it is not sustainable but at the same time we like how things are.
A positive feedback loop of crises emerges from an economy based on greed and profit, builds a culture of not caring. Those who can do nothing don’t care, those who are driven by greed are motivated to not care. Concentration of power influences political power and our structure of government changes. 1 Billion people are going hungry not because the land cannot support them, but because the industrial system sucks every grain out to feed animals and produce biofuel. Half of the hungry people in the world today are producers of food but cannot consume it. — paraphrasing Vandana Shiva Permaculture gives power to people on the ground. It changes the culture of people to care about the land and that culture spreads outwards. For this reason, systems of power and control will not help from the top down. In fact, they would only be motivated to scatter such efforts, if anything. Activity so far today: Twitter
CryptoTown Day 1 — Create, Connect, Converge — Why & how we should all be on the same page @decentralvan #Transition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJ...
Originally published at cryptotown.blogspot.com on February 17, 2017.
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