Commoning

Flippin heck...

The commodification of nature has destroyed our once healthy connection with it. We no longer see ourselves as being part of nature or its cycles. This separation has us thinking we are somehow above it all, as little ‘lords’. It encourages a mentality of being nature’s ‘stewards’ or ‘custodians’.

The BBC knows exactly what is doing... It is all intentional, always has been. And we are all forced to fund this endless misinformation.

We need to be actively taking them off people and crushing them.

They always have been.

But we shouldn't omit that they did in fact impliment nationalist market control techniques to turn around a flaying economy... a
And it was this which helped them win over the population.

Not that the present fascist brand is offering anything like this.

Undermining the Commons: The Regulatory Assault on Community Credit Sri Lanka's proposed microfinance regulation threatens to dismantle community-controlled credit systems that serve as a vital lifeline for peasants, fishers, and low-income women.

progressive.international/wire/2026-02...

Nailed...

In the mid 1500s, Henry VIII hanged over 75 000 commoners trying to stop the enclosures.

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.