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.

Desaprobación del presidente chileno José Antonio Kast escala al 52%

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/desaprobacion-presidente-chile-jose-kast-52/

This morass is explanatory of what is meant by the debunked #neoLiberal idea that markets know best.

The international Dutch corporation Trafigura, an independent commodity trading and supply chain logistics company which is the sole parent company of Nyrstar's Hobart and Port Pirie (another Dutch entity) is for one reason or another — though I can guess it involves, shareholders profits, executive salaries and bonuses as well and investments in more profitable ventures — is in need of Autralian public funds cash injections in its two Australian based smelters. Ostensibly because the parent company cannot secure private investments to keep those smelters going as profitable ventures. Of course, this has nothing to do with the skipping on maintenance and reinvestments (aka #Productivity) required to keep these smelters viable in the markets that apparently know best. ‘Bugger the workers, bugger the equipment, bugger the lot as long as we’ve drained the coffers and repatriated the profits’, that’d be my uneducated guess, forgive my cynicism.

“Governments are selling the [second] package as hard-headed industrial policy designed to keep regional workers employed and give Australia more control over the critical minerals supply chains it relies on.” More control… as if… whose controling whom?

Seeing as we know where this is going, our govt(s) might as well #Nationalise these smelters given we’re already throwing our money down someone else’s pocket overseas.

Bottom line is, Neoliberalism is sucking us dry to the benefit of a few, not even Australians. #EatTheRich #TaxTheRich

https://www.kyfreepress.com.au/national/funding-lifeline-saves-smelters-more-than-1000-jobs/

#AusPol #ReIndustrialisation #IndustrialPolicy #GovtBailouts #TaxPayerMoney #FeedingTheRich #MilkingIndustrialCows #Smelters #Refineries #InternationalCorporations #TaxDogers #TaxLoopholes #TaxReform

#finance #economy is not working for #germany hurray for #neoliberal #madness and #centralbank #stupidity (not funding #innovation ) #survival.
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns the most #money, whoever owns the #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation, it will ultimately lead to less #innovation and thus the destruction of all #mankind, because #mankind without #innovation can not survive

this ultimately means: no matter how smart people or governments are or act: they will lose the game to whoever prints money and buys and owns the assets (#bank, also #centralbank).

the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #finance #system is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!

OMN history note: Failbook, activism, and the enclosure of organising

https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-history-note-failbook-activism-and-the-enclosure-of-organising/

The #neoliberal pushing of #stupidindividualism as "common sense" has left us struggling to cooperate. You can see it everywhere on the #Fediverse, and to a lesser extent across the #openweb.

Ironically, you don't see it as clearly on the #dotcons because the platforms build individualism directly into their algorithms and business models. The behaviour is still there, it's hidden by the machinery.

If we want to escape this mess, we first need to name it.

#stupidindividualism #OMN #4opens