We talk about revolutions through simplified stories: heroes, villains, success, failure.

But real change is shaped by deeper forces - history, economics, ideology, institutions, culture, and the material conditions people are living through.

Often we fall back on comfortable liberal assumptions and narratives instead of asking harder questions about why movements emerge, how they transform, and why their outcomes become something different from their original hopes.

A better analysis needs more mess, not less.

Any understanding of change means looking beyond the slogans and into the systems that shape what becomes possible.

#OMN #history #socialchange #openweb #nothingnew

#climatechaos is exposing the contradiction at the heart of capitalism: a system designed around competition and profit struggles when the challenge requires cooperation, long-term planning, and putting survival before short-term returns.

The question is not simply "market vs state". The deeper question is: how do we organise society when facing crises that demand collective action?

History shows that during major emergencies, societies shift into forms of collective mobilisation - redirecting resources, prioritising needs, and acting beyond normal market logic.

The challenge is building those responses without reproducing authoritarian control.

We need systems that are adaptive, democratic, and focused on human needs.

The climate crisis is not only a technology problem. It is a systems' problem.

#OMN #4opens #climateaction #nothingnew

The dogma of one path: why alternatives, diversity and linking matter more

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dogma-of-one-path-why-alternatives-diversity-and-linking-matter-more/

How we built the neoliberal #Deathcult

https://hamishcampbell.com/how-we-built-the-neoliberal-deathcult/

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

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/

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

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