"Imagine what could be if it were directed not at empire building, but at saving ourselves. Where is the ambition to degrow?" First there has to be some "ourselves" so we can act in concert. We are separated gadflies now.
Here's an attempt to pull us together, hoping it will spread by people like you getting it moving out there: "Let's do something already to turn the world around/How about the Beloved Community?" https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/getting-on-with-getting-on.
Well said. Our problems in the outer world are manifestations of our problems in our inner world. Recognising that healing ourselves is an important step to healing the world.
If ambition isn't driven for the greater good, it's no good.
"Imagine what could be if it were directed not at empire building, but at saving ourselves. Where is the ambition to degrow?" First there has to be some "ourselves" so we can act in concert. We are separated gadflies now.
Here's an attempt to pull us together, hoping it will spread by people like you getting it moving out there: "Let's do something already to turn the world around/How about the Beloved Community?" https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/getting-on-with-getting-on.
My ambition is to de-grow the extraction flows and pollution flows that are creating the planet's ecological crises as a whole.
Well said. Our problems in the outer world are manifestations of our problems in our inner world. Recognising that healing ourselves is an important step to healing the world.