Our 50 years of worship a #deathcult has left our society and ecology fragile - this is exactly when collapse is closest. #OMN diversity and redundancy that seemed wasteful in growth become survival-critical.
Authoritarian tightening, in-group/out-group hardening, scapegoating, magical thinking, blinded ideological rigidity are all things we need to compost.
Q&A: What is the #deathcult?
Q. Not sure what you mean by #deathcult.
A. Anything with a `#` in front becomes a hashtag. If you click on it, you can see related posts, conversations and ideas from other people using the same tag.
So #deathcult is not a literal group or organisation. It is a way of connecting a set of ideas and critiques. Following the hashtag should give you the wider context.
In this case, #deathcult is a shorthand for the dominant culture of endless growth, extraction, competition and profit over people and planet. It points to the idea that parts of our economic system are locked into behaviours that are damaging society and ecology, even when the consequences are obvious.
Q. Is it Cruel Norwegian Black Metal?
A. Yes... that is part of the joke. 😄
The hashtag plays with the idea of a “death cult”, but the meaning comes from the surrounding conversations, not the music genre.
This is one of the interesting things about hashtags on the #openweb. They become small cultural maps. People build shared meanings around them over time.
Q. So hashtags actually work like that?
A. They can.
Try using hashtags in your own posts. If they overlap with other people using the same tags, you can discover conversations outside your immediate circle.
This is a small step away from the closed algorithmic worlds of the #dotcons, where platforms decide what you see.
Using shared tags is one simple way of finding the wider #openweb - where conversations can cross communities rather than staying trapped inside one platform.
Q. Good tip, thanks.
A. No problem. Hashtags are a small tool, but they are also a reminder that the #openweb can still be something we shape together.
I've come to think that caring for people requires a degree of resistance to the culture around us. Not because people are bad, but because so much of the dominant culture is built around values that put profit, status, and competition ahead of human need.
In that sense, care becomes a quiet act of rebellion.
#openweb #mutualaid #care #solidarity #deathcult #climatechaos
Why WhatsApp plebiscites, and #dotcons in general are a crude and negative democratic instrument
A plebiscite (or simple poll) reduces complex questions to binary or multiple-choice outcomes decided by raw headcount. This works reasonably well for large nation-states were aggregating millions of preferences is practically necessary. But in small community groups - like a WhatsApp boating community - it undermines democratic values rather than express them, for several reasons. The participation fallacy - Whoever happens to be on their phone when the poll appears votes; everyone else is […]
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Rethinking Grassroots Tech Funding
Building beyond the #deathcult - Our current model of #tech funding and developer agendas is not neutral. The way we fund technology shapes the kind of technology we build. For the last 20 years, the dominant tech culture has followed the same path: venture capital growth platform monopolies extraction of attention and data endless scaling short-term metrics private ownership of public infrastructure This has produced #techshit - technology built because it can make money, not because […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rethinking-grassroots-tech-funding/
Rebuilding Shared Meaning in a Fragmented World
A lot of our current mess can be understood through the long transition from #modernism to #postmodernism. Not as an academic debate, but as a lived reality. Modernity was about progress. It believed that society could be understood, improved, and consciously shaped. Science, democracy, planning, industry, public institutions, trade unions, education, and infrastructure were all part of this path. The future was something people could build together. Of course, this vision was never as […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-shared-meaning-in-a-fragmented-world/
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#OMN (Open Media Network)
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