Cordial World Project

How do societies reorganise under constraint without hardening into control?
Restoring ethical & perceptual conditions for coordination.

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

This post is for the ones mapping coherence across the noise.

For those designing with entanglement.

For those weaving what systems forgot how to hold.

You are not alone in this work of quiet transformation.

#HOLOS #CivicIntelligence #CordialWorldProject

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

In a recent Frankly episode of The Great Simplification, @NateHagens asks a harder question than most:

What does scale itself do to human behaviour when amplified by abundant energy?

If winter is here, the real issue may not be energy descent, but whether our coordination capacity survives it.

My offered response:
https://t.co/vQfK8SgJkm

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

For those sensing something forming across silos, systems, and movements - this is for you.

The Cordial World Project is just beginning to take shape.

🔗 Read the longform intro: https://t.co/WTC2I3lhAV

#CivicIntelligence #HOLOS #CollectiveTransformation

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

@bourne_les @caitoz I think you need to explain what you mean by "one step ahead of nature".
Are you implying that humanity is separated from "nature" - or that we're "masters" over nature?
If so, the rest of us have much to fear if our corporate elites are thinking and acting upon such a premise.

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

@jgreenhall https://t.co/PARq4K4h07

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

#AI stands at a crossroads: Will it remain a tool of #corporate and #state control, or can it be stewarded as a decentralised, commons-based resource for the public #commongood?

https://t.co/PARq4K4h07

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The west is a dystopian wasteland of moral degeneracy.

Usually when you hear a white person talk about moral decay it's some wingnut denouncing LGBTQ rights or women's reproductive rights or whatever, but that's not what I mean. I'm talking about real things here.

The real moral decay of our society is illustrated in the way all mainstream political candidates can openly support war crimes currently being inflicted on people in the global south without being immediately removed from power. The way monstrous war criminals of past administrations can endorse a liberal candidate without causing self-proclaimed progressives to recoil from that candidate in horror. The way you can have the two viable candidates for the world's most powerful elected position both pledge to continue an active genocide without instantly sparking a revolution.

The moral degeneracy of this civilization looks like living lives of relative comfort built on the backs of workers in the global south whose labor and resources are extracted from their nations at profoundly exploitative rates, while raining military explosives on impoverished populations who dare to disobey the dictates of our government, day after day, year after year, decade after decade, and acting like this is all fine and normal.

Being born into western civilization is like waking up in the middle of a massive lynch mob. Something terrible is happening, and everyone's going along with it and telling you it's fine and it's normal, and even if you're able to figure out that what they're doing is wrong in all the chaos and confusion you find yourself powerless to stop them, because the whole thing has so much momentum already and there are far too many people blindly caught up in the frenzy of bloodlust for you to make everyone change course. Even just continuing to live among them makes you complicit in their actions in many ways, but you have nowhere else to go besides this lynch mob town you were born into. So you just move to the fringes of the mob and share your objections with the few people who will listen to you.

Our civilization is cruel and savage, but we compartmentalize away from its cruelty and savagery and laugh at our sitcoms and vapid comedians and make believe the worst things happening politically in our society are the mainstream culture war wedge issues that pundits and politicians prefer to keep us talking about. We live out our lives sedated by entertainment and social media and food and pharmaceuticals while genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and ecocide unfold all around us, thinking ourselves good and virtuous if we are kind to our pets and hold the correct opinions about racial justice and vaccines.

If we as a society were actually good, none of this would be happening. Moral clarity would find all this intolerable, and would reject it and eject it by any means necessary. Which is why the powerful pour so much energy into keeping us all sedated and confused. A lot of power and wealth rides on our lack of moral clarity.

There is much wealth to be gained by exploiting labor and extracting resources around the world. There is much power to be secured by murdering, starving and terrorizing any population which refuses to bow to the interests of the western empire. This is why the western empire has the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever devised: because so much wealth and power depends on ensuring the west remains in a state of moral degeneracy, and that westerners do not regard the citizenry of the global south as fully human.

I personally reject religion, not because I'm some fedora-wearing wanker who makes fun of people for believing in God, but because I reject all aspects of the profoundly sick culture I was born into. Because I don't resonate with religion I often feel myself pulling away from religious-sounding jargon framing the actions of the western empire as "demonic" or calling the US "the great Satan" — but at the same time I completely understand it. When I see the inside of a child's skull for the hundredth time next to video footage of IDF soldiers mockingly dressed in the clothes of dead or displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead or displaced children while western podium pontiffs pretend to believe the military they're arming has done nothing wrong, I do struggle to find adjectives strong enough to describe what I am looking at. Maybe "demonic" is as close as you can get, even if you don't believe in actual biblical demons.

That's what I'm talking about when I say the west is a wasteland of moral degeneracy. The type of civilization which would allow its government to do things like this necessarily has a collective conscience that has been so warped and twisted by propaganda and self-interest that it's the same as not having a conscience at all. If you can't regard the vast majority of the population of this planet as fully human and equal to yourself, then morally speaking you're no better than the perpetrators of slavery and genocide we've been taught to judge negatively in history class.

And that's the norm here. It's what we were born into. It's what we spend all our lives being trained to accept as normal.

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

This is the sort of news the world doesn't need right now.
Let's work and pull together to ensure our combined agency creates even louder and more compelling voices to change doubting minds, amplify the mission and accelerate progress.

Together we can build a more Cordial World.

[Transition Together @TransitionTog]

Our funding bid to build on the work of Transition Together has not been successful. It’s disappointing news for us & the hundreds of locally-based Transition groups we support. But it is very much not the end. Read our full statement: https://t.co/TYAfLUhwwd A short thread🧵1/5

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

@CompassionComUK @drchatterjeeuk @andywilkins

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

"Civilizing the #State displays three segments: how we got this systematic crisis from #political and #economic powers; what alternatives we can learn from divergent #communities; and, finally, the inception of the Partner State."

#Empowering the #Commons with @mbauwens

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

A book relating the commons and the state, explicitely:

* John Restakis. Civilizing the State: Reclaiming Politics for the Common Good (2021)

https://t.co/ypjnc7MesU

"Civilizing the State displays three segments: how we got this systematic crisis from political and economic powers; what alternatives we can learn from divergent communities; and, finally, the inception of the Partner State".

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

Many congratulations @OnionCollective team and to everyone involved at #Watchet. Inspirational!
#Frome can take heart that hard fought #community driven projects like this can win through against profiteering traditional developments.
Let's go for it @MaydaySaxonvale team!

[Royal Institute of British Architects @RIBA]

🏆 The winner of Client of the Year 2023 is @OnionCollective for East Quay, by Invisible Studio and Ellis Williams Architects

The community-funded project has been commended as an uplifting model for community-led regeneration: https://t.co/1YfOw3LMpE

Sponsored @OfficialIbstock

[Royal Institute of British Architects @RIBA]

🏆 The winner of Client of the Year 2023 is @OnionCollective for East Quay, by Invisible Studio and Ellis Williams Architects

The community-funded project has been commended as an uplifting model for community-led regeneration: https://t.co/1YfOw3LMpE

Sponsored @OfficialIbstock

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

@CormacRussell In advance of us speaking later this month @CormacRussell, I would love bringing to your attention the incredible ground-breaking vision for the #Frome community vai the @MaydaySaxonvale development. It has #ABCD all over it! https://t.co/PcHJyqlTL5

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

As this may be my last share on here, can I cheekily ask for RTs pls? A blog pondering hierarchy, trust and connection. Begrudgingly likely to be sharing on LinkedIn instead in future. @OJGarling @RachelMWay @BrendanFMartin @tobyjlowe @John_A_Wade https://t.co/66ILNgNq3U

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

And to solve the #crisis in our #democracy, we must come together as a global #community, heal our differences, and confront the full nature of our #existential crises.

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

An on-point @algore.
"This is not a time for moral cowardice. This is not a time for surrender and reckless indifference to the fate of #humanity".

"We have to solve the #democracy crisis in order to solve the #ClimateCrisis".

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

I’m afraid protests are the least of our worries #JustStopOil

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

Been #systems #thinking all day today, contemplating how we can mitigate #humanity's #existential #risks.
Now watching the awesome #ArcticMonkeys at #Glastonbury with the huge crowds all coming together around their #common #values.
Life really is simple.
#Music heals.

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

@labenz @FLIxrisk Many thanks @labenz for sharing this and bringing it to our attention!

[Action for Happiness @actionhappiness]

Hold on to hope. Optimism can change how a situation feels

Image: https://t.co/4SWduMFZmI

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

#StorytellingMatters #ArtisticExpression #Empowerment

[Cordial World Project @Cordial_World]

The #transformative power of #storytelling and #art cannot be underestimated.

They provide invaluable insights into the impact of #power on our lives, offer a roadmap to counter the destructive influence of irresponsible and corrupt authorities on our vulnerable societies.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”

The visionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life https://t.co/Ea9hSgQ2xn