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Pav's avatar

Appreciated the Eisenstein quote, this approach seems wise, to "invoke causal principles other than force"

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

Very well written.

A polycrisis is what you see when highly organized systems start to break down. It's evening in America, or at least late afternoon. Good to leave seeds for what comes after.

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Lisa Carlson's avatar

Brilliant writing, Lydia! I can't believe it's only been 5 years since that orange glow day, which I lived through in Oakland. Who can count the number of insane crises we have lived through since you and I met, not including what goes down tomorrow? I encourage you to submit some of your original, forward-thinking writing to The New Yorker, to get wider readership. They need you! Lisa Carlson

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Lydia Laurenson's avatar

💙 thank you for the vote of confidence, Lisa! And yes, so much has happened so fast…

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Ian's avatar

The New Yorker, for almost all of its history, had an open submission policy. A few years back they ended it. The old media is both constricting and the gatekeepers are becoming more fierce.

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Lydia Laurenson's avatar

My impression was always that when these places have closed the open door submissions they were just formalizing something that was, practically speaking, already true.

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Ian's avatar

Create the ideology you want, spread it and wait. When societies go into full crisis, people search for new ideologies (or sub-ideologies) and the ideas "on the ground" are chosen among. Until a full-on crisis all you can do is scatter the seeds, it requires the full crisis (catastrophic) to allow the chance of change.

Most great ideologues die before their ideology makes a dent or it starts in their late lives. Confucius died sure he was a failure. Jesus sure looked like a dud. Even sub-ideologues like, say, Milton Friedman (primarily responsible for neoliberalism) see the first sprouts in ther old age.

The masses do not change their ingrained ways of thinking or doing radically except when the complete failure of the past way is clear.

https://www.ianwelsh.net/when-the-ideas-that-run-the-world-change/

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