Anna Branten

Want to microdose something?

Microdose speaking what is true for you in the places where you usually hide.

- Xavier Dagba on Substack.

We were never individuals: On the group that disappeared What if the story of the independent self was never true? On how we lost the flock, why difference is vital for survival, and what it would mean to build groups as living ecosystems. Part 2/3.

A sustainable future will not be created by individuals in isolation. It will be built by groups who remember what it means to be alive together.

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So I’m trying to learn to let off the ego, in favor of understanding the many parts within me, and giving each of them equal love.

It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing—for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though it were a one‑fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.”

For a long time now, I’ve been wandering in the words of Hermann Hesse:

”Every ego, so far from being a unity, is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities…

I hear you! You have clearly thought a lot about this, and I can recognize parts of it in myself. What I struggle with is when self-discipline turns into an internalization of the system’s logic - where you’re expected to become better, harder, faster, bigger.

The Drug That Mutes Craving — and Could Crash the Consumption Economy Are we witnessing the biochemical tipping point of late capitalism?

Are we perhaps witnessing the accidental death of consumer capitalism - and the beginning of a climate solution?

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The Creeping Cost of Convenience: My Quiet Relationship with AI A personal reflection on how I gave away more than I realized – one question at a time.

A personal reflection on AI and how I gave away more than I realized - one question at a time.

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Clashing Visions: Tech Feudalism and the Fight for the Future As Bill Gates and other giants buy up land, resistance movements question the future of food and freedom.

Tech-feudalism or magical resistance? When Bill Gates buys farmland and nature becomes an investment, what happens to the living world? This text is about the clash between power and magic.

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When the Consumer Becomes a Revolutionary Force The Tesla protests and the market's transformation into a new battlefield for democracy

If we are in the techno-feudalist era, then the consumer is the new revolutionary force.

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Därför växer intresset för regenerativt företagande – så vad handlar det om? │ Impact Loop

Kokar ner var ”regenerativt” egentligen är i Impact Loop: www.impactloop.se/artikel/darf...

Trump and the New Climate Feudalism: A Strategy for Dominance in a Collapsing World A systemic shift - but not the one we hoped for

What if Trump’s climate policies aren’t about ignorance but about strategy? Id fossil fuels, border walls and military budgets aren’t random, but tools for controlling a world in crisis?

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someone once asked me why I was so worried about the environment

I just said "I live there"

and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them

When collective chock becomes a business model How governments and corporations use information overload as a strategy for takeover

So this is how I became a conspiracy theorist. A piece on information overload as a strategy.

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Alla ni som börjar nosa på AI i det dagliga arbetet - använder ni nu tiden ni sparar på reflektion/vila/fritid eller fyller ni tiden med att prestera ännu mer, maximera er kapacitet och bli ännu bättre?

Där någonstans tror jag att vi har lite svar på hur framtiden kommer att gestalta sig.