Climate Doom vs. Dark Optimism ft. Shaun Chamberlin

If you're feeling hopeless about the U.S. election, women's rights, Palestine, climate change, and everything else, and don't know where to start or what to do -- this episode is for you. Meet a few members of our Direct Action Circle, who live and breathe communal care, and are teaching and learning the skills needed to prevent/survive collapse. Contrary to popular belief, those skills aren't just foraging for food and bandaging wounds. Direct action is as much about emotional support and mutual aid as anything else. When we learn to provide for one another, we stop relying on the abusive system of business and capital that starves and harms us in the first place. Learn more about the groups mentioned on the show below, and join our Discord to start learning how to build community rooted in care. Appalachian Community Meal Project: Facebook Houston organizer info: Instagram Edible Landscapes: greeningyourlife.org Magnova: Open Collective Discord: linktr.ee/moneyless

Be sure to check out the previously uploaded Part 1! EVOLUTION is the death of the old species and the messy, experimental birth of something new...and so we present VENUS EVOLUTIONS, the next phase of the greatest vision for the transformation of human society yet created. On this podcast Marlow and Arjang from ‪@WorldBeyondCapitalism‬ are joined by Roxanne Meadows and Nathaniel Dinwiddie of TVP and the great Simon Michaux to discuss their partnership to develop and actually build the city of the future and adapt a real alternative beyond the failing establishment's phony green transition. This is a deep dive into Simon's trailblazing PLAN to build a city in the desert using cutting edge technology and design science for a kind of INDUSTRIAL PERMACULTURE, a truly closed loop, fossil fuel anf debt free transitional system to model what is possible for all humanity. This is part one of an epic dialogue exploring these collaborative partnerships, the future of TVP, and going through Simon's immensely detailed plan, the purple transition. #fossilfuels #sustainability #resourcebasedeconomy #thevenusproject #jacquefresco #degrowth

Cross-post from our brilliant partner channel World Beyond Capitalism, hosted by Arjang Jameh! Be sure to visit his channel to learn more about what a different world could look like and how we could get there, together: www.youtube.com/@WorldBeyondCapitalism EVOLUTION is the death of the old species and the messy, experimental birth of something new...and so we present VENUS EVOLUTIONS, the next phase of the greatest vision for the transformation of human society yet created. On this podcast we are joined by Roxanne Meadows and Nathaniel Dinwiddie of TVP and the great Simon Michaux to discuss their partnership to develop and actually build the city of the future and adapt a real alternative beyond the failing establishment's phony green transition.  This is a deep dive into Simon's trailblazing PLAN to build a city in the desert using cutting edge technology and design science for a kind of INDUSTRIAL PERMACULTURE, a truly closed loop, fossil fuel anf debt free transitional system to model what is possible for all humanity.  This is part one of an epic dialogue exploring these collaborative partnerships, the future of TVP, and going through Simon's immensely detailed plan, the purple transition. #sustainability #fossilfuels #degrowth  

Moneyless Society is more than just a podcast -- it is a community of people building a blueprint for transitioning away from capitalist economics. And it's time to start introducing you all to these plans and ideas, so that they can propagate and grow. On this episode we'll introduce you to the coordinators of our Technomancy Circle, which envisions technology as practical magic, and the doorway to organizing society in more efficient and accessible ways! Tune in to learn about open source programming, anarchism, and how the digital commons allows us to utilize the collective knowledge and abilities of mankind to free ourselves from the oppressive status quo of a financialized economy. Find our episode about Lavra's MAGNOVA project here!

Moneyless Society is more than just a podcast -- it is a community of people building a blueprint for transitioning away from capitalist economics. And it's time to start introducing you all to these plans and ideas, so that they can propagate and grow. On this episode we'll introduce you to our organizing structure, sociocracy, and some of the people from our General Circle, which ensures that everyone helping us do the work is heard and represented in our mission goals. Learn more about the sociocratic Circles of MoSo at hub.moneylesssociety.com/circles. And listen to our past episode about Lavra's Magnova project on our YouTube or Spotify!

As Moneyless Society grows we want to introduce you to more of our members and the ways we're working to build alternative systems in our communities. And with the upcoming U.S. general election, this insight from our dedicated volunteer, Mia Jacobson, couldn't be more timely.   As a longshoreman and member of a historic union herself, Mia understands how important it is for the boots on the ground to have a say in organizational decision-making. That's part of her reasoning for why elected representation is an outdated system of governance. In an age where almost everyone has access to technology that can inform them of what's going on, and allow them to engage with decision-making processes, there's no need to ask someone who doesn't know or understand them, to speak for them.   Tune in to hear what other approaches are possible, and how other parts of the world are already putting them into practice. And look out for more episodes soon featuring other members of Moneyless Society, building a new world together that's based on care and community, rather than capital.

"Dark Optimism is, in part, a perspective which is not afraid of seeking the truth — even when that truth is unpalatable or feels overwhelming. By exploring the unknown we can see it for what it is, rather than what we might fear it to be. Where there is darkness present we face it with an indomitable belief in the potential of life and humankind." Those words are from the website of our friend Shaun Chamberlin, a researcher, writer and activist continuing to carry the torch of giants like Michael Dowd, who brought us the "Post-Doom" philosophy. In this episode we let ourselves look at all the things we MIGHT NOT be able to accomplish in trying to save the world, and sit with what that means for our future. But realism is not pessimism, and seeing with clear eyes allows us to make this life meaningful, no matter where it leads.

This month, a group of core Moneyless Society volunteers met up in the scenic mountains of Kentucky to get a firsthand taste of self-sufficient living, discuss the future of the organization, and just generally revel in the company of comrades who have only been able to collaborate digitally for the past few years. During that time, we also recorded a podcast episode meant to introduce the world to a few of the hands helping build the coming transition, and to the larger community and mission making it possible. Listen in, and reach out to see how you can get involved in bringing about the next economic evolution of our world. We still have a long way to go, and a lot to learn, but if we've learned anything from our experiences so far it's that we have what we need to get there when we put our skills, knowledge, and passions together.

Science fiction is an effective way to put our current reality into context, and helps us imagine what our future might look like. For authors like Cory Doctorow, that fact is extremely useful in getting people to imagine what could be possible in a changed world -- and understand that changing the world IS POSSIBLE. On today's episode, we dive into all the ways that we give power to authoritarian social systems when we buy into their self-inflating social narratives. And how the people who control those systems deceive us into thinking that they are actually powerful sorcerers who possess obscure, ancient knowledge -- and not, as Doctorow says, just a bunch of charlatans sifting through the guts of a sacrificial goat. Follow Moneyless Society on social media for more revolutionary inspiration, and visit our website at moneylesssociety.com to join up as a volunteer. Get your hands dirty building a new world from the bones of the old one.

What if there was a way to acquire the things you need in life without having to grovel and scrape for money every day? What if we could instead provide and be provided for by one another -- keeping track of what we've contributed, and what we plan to contribute, without all the fake numbers and resource hoarding? That's precisely the focus of today's episode. Our guests are a panel of radical thinkers who have each in their own way broken out of the box of the financial status quo, and begun exploring realistic alternative ways to account for need with one another. Listen to learn, and see how you can begin applying these new methods in small ways within your own daily life!