We are entering a period of overlapping crises

This disorder is driven by climate breakdown, expanding inequality, scientific disruption, war, governmental instability and the weakening of delegate institutions, these are no longer distinct problems, they fortify all other. At the identical time, we are seeing a feedback iteration of governmental movements built about fear, scapegoating, ranking and fantasies of escape. This creates a essential inquiry we need to concentration on – how do we build the method to live through these crises together, fairly than retreating into idiosyncratic survival, authoritarianism or delusions of scientific escape?

One of the strongest #blocks operating through the current emergency is, what could call, exit culture. You can see this in the affluent #nastyfew who shove the disorder attempt to buy their way out through the nasty imagination of personal security, asset and technology. Some nourish governmental movements that ideate an escape into an ethnically or culturally purified nation, the difficult right. Some religious movements appearance towards another imagined world. Some innovation #geekproblem civilization imagines that humanity can escape its matter limits through AI, automation, area or digital transcendence.

The earth is broken, so discover a way out, a hazardous foolish social reply to the systemic social and ecological crisis. But any one alongside any awareness can see there is no #stupidindividualism exit from #climatechaos. There is no scientific #dotcons phase that allows us to escape social relationships. And there is no bunker ample adequate to defend a community from the consequences of destroying the living systems it depends upon. What is needed is we need to actively be composting this mainstreaming mess, the substitute is not to escape, it is to concentration on becoming additional capable of being here.

Then on the remaining the is a matching fantasy, we romanticism collapse, but it is not automatically progressive. It is uncomplicated to appearance at damaged institutions and think that their downfall must create an chance for item better. But downfall has no governmental direction of its own, perchance it can create mutual aid, solidarity and new forms of delegate organization. More apt we get authoritarianism, scapegoating, aggression and stronger hierarchies.

The outcome depends partially on what group and communities are prepared to do whenever emergency washes complete them. If communities have networks (like the #OMN), relationships, communication systems, applicable skills and ways of making decisions together (like the #OGB), emergency can rotate into an chance to build item new. If they don’t, group are much additional apt to autumn rear on fear and whoever appears to recommendation uncomplicated answers.

So preparedness matters, but preparedness is hopeless, if group do not choice up the tools or whenever it method becoming an idiosyncratic survivalist. We need to balance this commons awareness urge, alongside operating collectives to create social relationships and develop ways of looking following all other. It is now 20 years former period to move for survivalism to #KISS mutual aid, we need concentration on how do we create certain group can appearance following all another whenever things rotate into difficult?

That method improved delayed than never to construction relationships before the crisis, knowing who is about us, knowing how to communicate, anywhere resources are, how to organize. Knowing how to differ without destroying the group, how to create decisions, portion responsibility. This is grassroots operating delegate resilience from the base up.

We need grassroots repossess to authoritarian pushing insecurity – discover person to accuse – the nation against the foreigner – the bulk against the smaller group – the “real people” against outsiders – the clean against the contaminated. The difficult correct are pushing belonging through this kinda blaming exclusion.

We need to activity to balance this mess, we need another form of belonging, that method construction coalitions capable of holding difference without turning all disagreement into another power struggle. We need to compost the false choice between local organizing and large-scale networks, we need the powerful local relationships to provision the social basis of our alter and challenge.

But we additionally need #KISS innovation as tools, #4opens stream networks to authorize those communities to toggle knowledge, resources and cognition without surrendering their autonomy. This is among the reasons the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub are interesting. Federation gives us a specialized way anywhere autonomous communities can remain autonomous during motionless communicating alongside all other.

This regulation can broaden beyond the current #openweb reboot of the fedivers, copying #dotcons social media. We need to build projects akin the #OMN according to local relationships + open networks = distributed resilience. This is a much additional engaging way than merely construction another or replenishing the normal centralized platforms we currently live inside. This move need to be according to innovation that supports social procedure fairly than substitute it alongside blinded control.

We don’t need a ideal future, a lot of governmental narrow thinking is trapped between two fantasies. One says, the existing institutions volition eventually fix themselves. The another says, the entire item has to downfall before we can build item new. It is hazardous to obtain either of these paths blindly. What we do need is to grow, rely networks, applicable delegate experiments, its fine that none of these are perfect. They need to activity improved than the current mess, to nexus group and communities, so they can stage from fear to cooperation.

The current difficult correct is fine at turning insecurity into fear, they nourish from fear of migration, traditional change, scientific change. Fear of financial collapse, losing position and fear of the future. But the genu fool reactions cant be to merely inform group not to be fearful as group have genuine reasons to awareness insecure. The improved balancing is to build item that gives group item improved to autumn rear on than fear. That method replacing fear → scapegoating → authoritarianism alongside emergency → collaboration → solidarity. Not in a utopian sense, but as applicable path.

On the native openweb way this is the inquiry and the bigger logic for construction the #OMN. As we don’t cognize exactly what the next twenty or forty years volition appearance like, we do cognize that the existing scheme is becoming increasingly unstable. We cognize that #climatechaos is accelerating, that #dotcons innovation is concentrating power. We cognize that authoritarian government is growing. And we cognize that merely defending the existing structures is not enough.

So fairly than waiting for the next emergency to inform us what to do, we commencement construction now. Practical grassroots paths, not as an escape route, another #closedweb phase as fume and mirrors for another ranking waiting to obtain control. A network of group and communities that can communicate, remember, cooperate, arrange and govern themselves. That is the native #openweb way to compost this mess, that is the applicable definition of the old motto “another earth is possible”.

We don’t have to delay for another world, we can commencement construction the method for it here.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #Fediverse #ActivityPub #mutualaid #democracy #resilience #KISS