The #deathcult isn’t just politics or economics. It’s a dogma - a way of seeing the world that sits underneath what we call “common sense”. Forty years of #neoliberalism turned competition, greed, extraction, and isolation into normality. We breathe it in every day until it feels natural.

That’s the real prison: when the ideology disappears into the background and becomes invisible.

So how do we escape the mind prison?

It’s simpler than people think. Look outside the current mess. There are huge bodies of human thought, practice, and lived experience from before the rise of the #deathcult. Traditions of commons, mutual aid, collective survival, indigenous stewardship, labour organising, radical democracy, and the early #openweb all point to different ways of being human together.

The answers don’t come from worshipping new tech, stronger markets, or smarter branding. They come from remembering what was deliberately buried.

That’s why projects like #OMN matter. We need living alternatives, not just critique. We need spaces where trust, openness, and collective action can grow in native soil instead of inside the poisoned logic of the #closedweb and endless commodification.

The first step out of the prison is recognising the walls were built by people — which means they can also be dismantled by people.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #mutualaid #socialchange #deathcult #nothingnew

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@GurgelSegrillo/116675577812296443

@tagesschau - mal zur Anschauung und Aufklärung:
Nicht wie am Brenner, sondern so wie hier sieht eine #Blockade aus!
Bitte an die verantwortlichen Redakteurys weitergeben zwecks Sensibilisierung hinsichtlich sachlicher und zutreffender Wortwahl. Danke.

This is how a road #blockage looks like.
Barricades and people stopping traffic ...

People in #Bolivia unite in a general strike against #neoliberalism ✊ fighting together for #WorkersRights - an #anticapitalist #strike ...

The commons were never theory – It was always practice

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-commons-were-never-a-theory-it-was-always-practice/

Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess

https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/

Gene Marks dispenses valuable advice in the Guardian on how not to starve after retirement: "Negotiate better compensation with your boss. That didn’t work? Change jobs or work more."

At this rate, folks will have no choice but #EatTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/may/31/retirement-money-saving-investment

#capitalism #retirement #neoliberalism #slop

Chile 2026: Crisis of Hegemony, the Splintering of the Left, and the Reconquest of Neoliberal Common Sense A Gramscian and Leninist essay on the contemporary political, economic, and social conjuncture

https://solidariogb.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/chile-2026-crisis-of-hegemony-the-splintering-of-the-left-and-the-reconquest-of-neoliberal-common-sense-a-gramscian-and-leninist-essay-on-the-contemporary-political-economic-and-social-conju/

“The British university is dying, and it seems that almost nobody cares…

Almost every academic I know is facing the threat of redundancy…

Universities are not just downsizing. Many are at risk of going under altogether.”

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/irreversible?fbclid=IwZnRzaASHtYxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeumojTOPw4L5OOL6uVWyxr7DbIzKZuhHGyoWaWdIbbAtDYxDVFP7Yx1wSOMk_aem_BxIdJYwsCJDAkoWBWPXqZA&pc=1767

#UK #UKPol #Academia #Universities #Education #Neoliberalism #Capitalism

The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-everyday-con-how-the-deathcult-turns-crisis-into-extraction/

[edited to correct an grevious error]

I normally pay attention to #AlanKohler but I don’t always agree with him. In this article he tackle #Productivity and #AffordableHousing.

On productivity Kohler links #Wages with #Inflation to explain low productivity. WTF. That’s as close to #NeoLiberalEconomics as you can get and that old horse was put to pasture in 2008 (though it’s hanging around with a bad smell that every politicians and most economist fail to apprehend). Furthermore, you cannot ask workers to work harder for more hours with less pay just to increase productivity. That is not how it’s supposed to work. Capital investments in production processes and tooling are necessary to improve productivity. That is, cutting profits to re-invest — which of course runs counter to #NeoLiberalism and the #TrickleDownEconomic model the #Grifters have been peddling for the last 40 years or so.

When talking about #housing and #construction the only thing Kohler says that makes sence is that the only way to beat the current economic set up is to build housing that does not require private capital investment (because that requires a 6% pa return which goes to feed the crazy spiraling house prices, aka the #SpeculativeRealEstate markets). To do this, public funds must be used to build houses which requires #TaxReform to fund properly from federal revenues. There are other ways to do this of course. Like Community not-for-profit housing, as done in parts of Europe, through verious public funding models and favouring tax regimes. But when Kohler ties Immigration to housing shortages, he cuts corners and cherry picks. For example, immigrant families are generally bigger than Australia’s average of 2.57 per household (Source: ABS.gov.au), my family certainly was. Yet Kohler use the 2.5 adult per household figure to calculate the immigration demand on housing without differentiating between #NetImmigration and overall immigration numbers (wich include seasonal workers, international students, working holiday backpackers, ect.). This kind of data (mis)use goes some ways to discredit the validity of Kohler’s proposition and diminish the strength of his argument.

You can read the article here for yourself, but it does point out that even a well regarded economic analyst is prone to tailor their words to reflect their political and econmic hobby horses. Read it by all means, but don’t swallow anything until you’ve chewed the cud for a time. We are thinking beings, put your innate #CriticalThinkingSkills to good use in whatever you read (especially these days). Even when missing information and knowledge, think about what you hear/read/see before it goes to a change/shore up your opinion. Work in progress as always.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/federal-election-housing-productivity-bandaid-solutions-budget/105098402