Morning Comrades! I’ve been meaning to make this shirt for well over a year now and I finally got my shit together, and et voila. It’s available now through to Sunday. Paying Subscribers: Your discount codes applies to this as per usual, if you forgot it just drop me an email. As always, thank you for supporting this idea with your time and attention. Appreciate it Comrades!
In other news, thanks to everyone that has already signed up to the Black Lodges Telegram Channel, I’m stoked! All that just ties into my wish to no longer rely on Zuckerbergs Shit Show and eventually just focus on this here. I am still trying to figure out how to best utilize that platform and yes, there is going to be cross posting over on IG for a little while until I feel like I can leave IG to its own demise. Also, to make Telegram Channel a little more personal, I have linked a sub to the channel where we all can chat, you know, time to truly get connected and start building. Click below to give that a follow if you so like.
As it is Friday I am going to focus more on more in-depth stories that could/should carry you through the weekend. First up and this is hugely exciting to me as I have been working on an alternative economic model/idea for the last year or so, SARA KILEY WATSON just published a new article over on Popular Science on “Degrowth” - an economic model that ties into 360Degree sustainability, alternatives to capitalism, climate change and so on. It’s a really good piece that serves as an introduction to this idea and I very much implore you all to read this one. It’s one thing to continuously attack capitalism for all it’s worth ( I’m here for it ) but we need to focus even more energy on offering and building alternatives. An anecdote from the PhD reality, if you can indulge me, I’ve been chatting with some mathematicians/economists at other Universities about building a new value formula for a post-capitalistic society and the majority of them have been working on the de-growth idea, mathematically for decades at the behest of large fossil fuel companies. As they all well knew that their business is responsible for climate change, they also know that infinite growth based economy is also unsustainable - that is all it should take for you to understand how bloody serious this is. Anyway, read it, get into it, if you have questions/suggestions, give me a shout.
A little while ago I wrote about a delegation of Zapatista’s coming to Europe for a 3 month long journey of talks, workshops - well, there here. The above takes you to the right website where you can find where they will be and how you can get involved helping. Get into this. This is a huge opportunity to listen and learn from some the most effective fighters against Imperialism, Colonialism and Capitalism.
As per usual, here are a few suggestions for your weekend entertainment to take you to other places outside the pre-chewed, non-spicy mayo Netflix and Co vibes for your weekend.
Alright, I got some good hot shots for you take into the weekend also. I’ll post some more of these into the Telegram Channel with commentary, but here you go:
Thanks for this. As a veteran of corporate where growth was the goal and now a reseller of what already exists - educating the consumer is key. Helping them understand their role in it all. I tell them - for every one item you buy there is a bean counter and an executive trying to figure out how to get you to buy two more next time around. With the word sustainable being thrown around in organizations that still focus on growth - it's a never-ending self-fulfilling doom prophecy. Thanks for all you do and I plan on sharing with our crew!