Commoning

Guess that's a matter for the community to decide, not something a lord to prescribe

They don't 'get' them to do anything, that's not their job.

They, rather famously, do not want to be governed.

So you like don't know the difference between the nation state, which can only exist by violence, and a community council?

The obvious presumption would be that she can't be that economically illiterate and that this is purposefully deceptive. But maybe she is actually just that bad at her job?

@lizkendallmp.bsky.social

When first we freely roamed the land
What then was the aristocrat?
Each by nature are born alike,
Oppression has us in bondage.

Wait, I've got a violin somewhere, I just need a microscope to find it...

My country is the world,
My religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

'These are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others...'

'Resources', (the commons), are not seen as property, but as a shared-wealth, for shared provision and care.
Boundaries are not strict, but semi-porous, just as land is in Indigenous economies. Acting in a cooperative way is a stable evolutionary strategy. Mutualism is the basis of natural system.

Inside a Commons, we are stepping into a relational space, aligning our interests within the collective interests. Interaction is not based transactional expectation, yet still produces value. A value which enriches the relationships further.

Controlled 'opposition'.

You know full well what calling someone Malthusan means.

By all means disagree with me, but any attempts to demonise will be treated with the respect it deserves.

We need reduction.

Agreed.

I mean, dinosaurs were real, and are a source of fascination for children which can be used as a springboard for further interest, esp evolution.

It is not any more. We failed to transition in the window available. It is now about adaptation to what is already set in place, and a severe reduction in energy throughputs to try and stop the absolute worse from happening. Something no one seems to want to do.

It is surely impossible that they don't grasp the reality?
Guess humans really are the only animal capable of mass scale self delusion.

We relinquish all our powers to this barbaric world.

We're going to have to physically stop them doing this.

A tea-towel with an image of pheasant farmers and some domesticated geese. The saying at the top reads: 'The law locks up the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, but leaves the greater felon loose who steals the common from the goose. The law demands that we atone when we take the things we do not own, but leaves the lords and ladies fine who take the things that are yours or mine.'

Capitalist normalacy.

UBI as minimum.

Two types of property -

Capitalist model: Personal - Private - Public
All defined by possession.

Commoning model: [That which we] Have - Share - Belong To
All defined by relationships.

Every time I hear the word 'ice-cream', THAT song comes into my head...

They're all in full throat at the moment, it's lovely.

And in Down by Law.

Tom Waits in... anything.

They're also one of the worst for plastic packaging...