How we built the neoliberal #Deathcult

For most people, the crisis feels recent. Housing costs. Energy bills. Food prices. Debt. Insecure work. Growing inequality. Endless wars. Ecological breakdown. The #mainstreaming story is that these are separate problems with separate causes. COVID. Ukraine. China. Immigration. Technology. Bad politicians. The reality is simpler, these crises grow from the same roots - the moment things changed, one graph tells the story. From the end of World War II until roughly the early 1970s, […]

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

@gert @mrg

In what context?

This is what a #OMN is a collection of nodes, think of a #openweb #grassroots #DIY atavism fiendly Fediverse that was much less focused on copying #dotcons in ethical'ish ways... it's a very simple and #nothingnew path.

The #deathcult is real, the mess is real, the #nothingnew reminder is useful. 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/
Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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

This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]

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

The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at social power. A powerless tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, but because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disappearing becomes the cost. This is not a "mistake", […]

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

Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end

Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-personal-is-not-the-political-treating-everything-as-personal-conflict-is-a-dead-end/

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story) – #OMN (Open Media Network)

In the #OMN hashtag story, #nothingnew is a grounding reminder that the cycles of co-optation, institutional failure, grassroots betrayal, and technological hype we're living through now have all happened before — and that ignoring this history is how movements keep making the same mistakes.

https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=nothingnew

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