Three years ago I wrote:
“Looking at the world I see ‘common sense’ insanity and mental illness as the dominating social paths. This wave has been building for 40 years and is maybe finally building to a crest. To get any good outcome small groups of us have to surf down this cresting wave of social madness and disintegration to plant the seedlings of fresh growth #XR in the compost of today’s #dotcons and #deathcult worshipping decay.”
Looking back, I would update this. The wave did not simply crest and break. It has become the landscape.
What looked like a crisis moment was actually a deeper transition: decades of #neoliberal common sense reaching its limits while the systems built around it attempt to preserve themselves.
The strange thing is that much of what now looks like “insanity” is not random. It is the logical outcome of a culture that has spent 40 years rewarding of individual competition over collective capacity, short-term extraction over long-term resilience, attention capture over shared understanding and growth without limits.
The result, a society where many of the things presented as “common sense” are actually symptoms of a broken system.
This is where #OMN thinking has sharpened - We do not just need resistance, we need replacement, we need spaces where trust can grow, knowledge can be shared, communities can organise, technology serves people rather than capturing them and alternatives remain connected rather than isolated.
The old #dotcons model is showing its limits, but the danger is that alternatives get absorbed into the same logic: branding, funding cycles, status games, and institutional capture.
The lesson from the last few years is that the battle is not only against bad systems. It is also against the habits and assumptions those systems have planted inside us.
The next phase is not about waiting for the wave to end. It is about learning how to grow while the storm continues.
#OMN (Open Media Network)
hamish campbell
witchescauldron
Wokebloke for Democracy
Bubbles