This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle aspect: in 2004 the English writer Sara Maitland wrote about the “pending ecological debacle.” The expression stuck with me; it’s a debacle because it was foreseen, warned about and was avoidable. Well, it’s no longer really “pending” is it?
Uggh. I despair of all the barriers (psychological, incumbency blindness, fear) to any acknowledgement of the need for social movement innovation. People with big big profiles and platforms claiming that “we’ve tried everything” in one breath and saying “we need a lot more people” in the next. With a straight face.
As Jimmy Baldwin wrote in 1962 “not everything that can be faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” And we don’t even face it, ffs.
Smugospheres and emotacycles, emotacycles and smugospheres, with the “movement stars” treating everyone as ego-fodder, colluding with (enjoying and benefitting from) shitty shitty formats.
See, among many others
- 2019: How we blew it, again
- Standard Public Meeting Syndrome and what to do about it.
- Standing on the Outside – the failures of climate movement organisers to put themselves in the shoes of ‘newbies’
- Cher, incentive structures and our inevitable doom
- We’ve got to stop meeting like this
Ya basta.
Also, this from Gus Speth.
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