Since blogs make it difficult to get an overview of all the posts, I have created a chronological archive page. (A full list of the “patterns of community” and details regarding blog focus can be found here.)
Community = people — feed people not institutions
Building… what? — start with relationships
Misery today, ruin tomorrow — recognizing bad ag
Know thy food — cognivores unite!
How to heal from cancer — personally, socially
“Love community and you will kill it.” — in caring for one another, community emerges
Toiling for da goal Man — chasing goals at the expense of living
Strike up the band — birds flock, humans band
How to get things done? — spoofin’ the mainstream
Dave & Nelda — another view of tolerance
Healing the wounds — rewilding
Doomer mania I — ducking doomer porn
Perils of believism — shared ideology not needed for getting along
Doomer mania II — resilience contagion
DIYWO! — DIY with others, TTs, movements
Uncivilization: base camp — Dark Mtn Project, a critique; power-sharing
Applied imagination — change via embodiment
Birds of a feather — how to find true kin
Transition shift — movement, not a movement
Be the change — the path of embodiment
Getting down to getting along — everything hinges on it
Dickology — dicks and how to spot’em
Persuasion run amok — changing others? maybe not…
Finding the gateway — growing powersharing culture
From civilization to commonwealth — 5 posts on civ and alternatives
Sociopaths among us — people unable to empathize
Disruptors — spot’em, stop’em
Logic of power I — changing the world without taking power
Tribute to Emma — unvoting
Sharer village — gift economy
Anti-power — living it
Pie-in-the-sky fallacy — solution illusions
And so… — blog focus, patterns of community
Pathways to power — aggrandizer strategies
Progressives’ Tea Party? — decentralized politics
Emergent versus imposed design — let it evolve
Group intelligence emergent — non-managed choices rooted in doing; quorum sensing & swarms
Four weapons — main dominator ways to inflict harm and lead us by the nose
Democracy, interrupted — how the American Revolution was betrayed
Conserving the commons — “using less” fallacy within the commons
Vive la résistance? Au contraire — what you resist, persists
Resistance: downsides and alternatives — orientation within the series of posts
Divide and conquer — a millennia-old trick
Guerrilla dissent — guerrilla dissenters rising
Mycelium wisdom — where the wild things are
Indignant? Join the crowd… — los indignados, in Spain and elsewhere
Multiple realities — thriving amidst ideological variety
Who are the Leavers — deconstructing Ishmael
Out of the prison — yon invisible gaol
And off the treadmill — leaving the boss economy behind
Wisdom-process — listening for its faint hum
Agriculture: villain or boon companion? — agriculture as old as humanity
“Our politics” — forget about “them”…
Terrible glory of being human I — dappled light and shadow inside us
Doomer no more — betting on Gaia
Co-intelligence evolving — poking Darwinism with a stick
Terrible glory II — facing our shadow
Potions — two depths of social evil
Lordy, the meek did inherit! — putting Hyde in his place, in the Paleolithic
Complexity thinking — biological, bottom up metaphors
Tyranny of the (inner) planner — series on unplanning, #1
Centering in the present — series on uplanning, #2
Tedium and black magic — series on unplanning, #3
Permadesign — series on unplanning, #4
Crystal gazing — unplanning #5, on visioning
Can humus save humans? — one stop solution for all our ills… ok ok, it won’t get the crabgrass out of your lawn, sniff…
Mechanical alien — whom do you serve?
Visioning: an invitation — our vision for a sane human world; what is yours?
Patterns of community — the ultimate list
Doing splits — divide to stay local
‘Tis the season t’pinch your noses, falalalala, lalalala — unelections
Sophie’s choice, revisited — bargaining with the devil
Extrovert haven — Dancing Rabbit ecovillage visit (part 1)
Introvert liberation — extroverts: please shush!
Ecotown Dancing Rabbit — Dancing Rabbit visit (part 2)
Living by the bell — visit to Possibility Alliance, a petro-free community
Thoughts on Cannibals and Kings — Big Men taking over
No guarantees — tending the wild
When you can’t dazzle’em with brilliance, baffle’em with definitions — ag vs horti
To crank or not to crank — mysteries of surplus
Compost me please! — back to the cycle of life with you and me
Four powers — ballast for radicals
Foundlings — kitties in need of a forever home
Trekking east, with cats — crossing the Land of Unhappy Motoring
Earthaven, full stop — first impressions of Earthaven
Four elements of a healthy community — sociocratic governance, part 1
Governance by peers — sociocracy, part 2
Resilient Lake Wobegon — sociocracy, part 3
Hard — ecovillage, day by day
Ecovillage jigsaw puzzle — aspects of Earthaven; coherence
Leaps of faith — Earthaven’s money
Oh humanure — misadventures of a would-be humanurist
Magnificent poke — powerful healing plant
Food prairie — polycultures of the grasslands
By the dozen — foundational groupings of natural human societies
World made by bigots — woman reviews Kunstler’s third World Made by Hand book
Nesting instinct — organic organization
Freedom! — my heart is with the Scots today, yes!
Dreaming of a post-deferential world — tribal gender relations
Gatekeeping — protecting a group’s social ecology
Mother Nature’s tillers — no-till? er, no
Our true history — the 200,000 year story of our species
Demolition derby — Deep Green Resistance, not so much
Two viable futures — stone age or metamorphosis?
Turn off the lights on the way out — stepping out of Babylon
Utopians are ruining everything — Grand Schemes going awry
Whodunit? The foragers. — the amazing foragers
Moment-to-moment unfolding — unplanning as becoming
Generating a future that works — generative sequences emerge from the doing
Pulling the plug, part 1 — depriving the Machine of its fuel
Pulling the plug, part 2 — and giving that fuel to the Lifeworld
How agriculture grew on us — origins of ag, in the Paleolithic
Logic of power II — power must flow
Ready for the revolution? — second egalitarian revolution is coming
Pascal’s Wager — rethinking religion
Deepest problem — the problem of power
From Big Men to civilization — the march of the aggrandizers
Meditation/rant on diversity — migration bellyaching
Clash of civilizations — two faces of one civilization gone awry
Getting a grip — battling toxic ideologies, in a civil way
Phony phobias — PC, migration, Europe, nutcase elites, boundaries, civ…
Godspeed, populists! — I like ’em… especially the agrarian kind…
My Islam adventure — my various encounters with Islam, over the last 2 years
Enga — one successful tribe, moving through transegalitarian stages
Stealing fertility no more — growing your garden to feed the soil, first
Room of their own — rewilding farms and gardens
Digging down into the roots — what the heck happened to get us into this mess?!
Too many people too much! — babies… let’s have some babies!
How to leave Babylon — a scrap of a map
Death, American style — killing the aged
Going gentle into that good night — a good death (takes foresight)
How I beat the Reaper — a way to cure incurable cancer
Virus tracking — how not to live in fear of coronavirus (falsifiable)
My goodbye to Earthaven — ecovillage skepticism
Self-hastened death
From Belarus with love
Leaving Babylon 