Mike Chitty

“You should know that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it”

Castaneda

...the “enemy” is not the neighbour but the social relations that estrange neighbours from one another...

“Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?”

Do you think we are daft?
A call to western imperialism is ‘calm and reassuring’?
What has America become?

Back to an era of exploitation and extraction where the devil may take the hindmost…

It’s the Wales connection that puzzles me…

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After an evening of rock and roll

A morning of printmaking…

A Pledge for Plurality Something for our elected leaders...

Might a Plurality Pledge help to clean up our politics?
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Trump has just posted a video of the Obamas pictured as monkeys. This should hit headlines. We warned you about him years ago, but many made him a friend, defended him, salivated and gave him football shirts. Our thoughts are with black people everywhere and my own family. I am sorry. I am so sorry.

"And Nigel was in the pub"

Finally, a politician prepared to fight against the huge roll in public life being handed over to Palantir by our corrupt govts.

Why is Palantir being given NHS contracts? They are reportedly involved with rounding up migrants in the US and targeting mainly civilians in Gaza.

An hour of prime time for Reform!?

I await @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s @greenparty.org.uk getting similar BBC treatment

From Systems Thinking to Collective Discernment: Ethics, Attention, and Becoming More Fully Human and Alive Part 2: Why Collective Discernment is Critical to Effective Systems Working

From systems thinking to collective discernment Part 2

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You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

One more lost asset for our community, The Leeds Labour run council is determined to sell off community assets, assets which we all benefit from. Austerity never ended it took on a new mask!

"Policy becomes a liability" 👇

At 55 I was just beginning to think I knew what I might be doing, then realised that I didn't have a clue, and suddenly things got really interesting...wonderful...

The Thread Session 1 - The Song Beneath the Silence “There was once a world that sang. It still sings. But now, we must learn to hear it again.”

Just added 4 more places on The Thread and the Listening World which starts Feb 16th at 3pm UK time.
Pay as you feel. Free is fine!
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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

The rise of performance politics Politics has always been a performance art, but does modern politics offer us only the performance and none of the substance?

The rise of performance politics

Politics has always been a performance art, but does modern politics offer us only the performance and none of the substance?

By Mike Chitty
@mikechitty.bsky.social

The rise of performance politics Politics has always been a performance art, but does modern politics offer us only the performance and none of the substance?

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

YouTube video by Novara Media Workers Create Wealth, Not the Super Rich

Wealth is generated by our Interdependence, including the accumulated ingenuity of the dead. Without employees, regulated shipping lanes, public R&D, schools, roads, public sanitation, health systems, public arbitration, postal systems, electricity grids etc, Jeff Bezos is just some dude in a field.

Some contrasting definitions of wealth at play… is it about the hoarding of cash or the offering of service?
Most economists and politicians pursue the former while actively diminishing the latter…

To be a living bundle of beliefs? Or questions? Is THAT the question?

Are you a bundle of beliefs?
Or questions.
And does it matter?
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Recovering the Lost Art of Contemplation An Invitation to The Thread and the Listening World

Recovering the lost art of contemplation…
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Make it make sense.

The Thread Session 1 - The Song Beneath the Silence “There was once a world that sang. It still sings. But now, we must learn to hear it again.”

Just two places left on the next group who wish to Follow the Thread
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