when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.

Now I see that it doesn’t take much at all, simply a spark, if there is enough poverty and hopelessness to serve as kindling, the flame burns and burns.

Our society is collapsing because the story we use to make sense of ourselves is collapsing. In order to step into a new story, we first need to learn to see the air we breathe, this story that shapes our world and behaviour, for what it is.

The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth…. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison… for your mind.’

The power of the Subject Story helps explain how this could have happened. In each and every case, the colonisers fundamentally failed to recognise the shared humanity of those whose lands they claimed.

Ronald Glassman’s evocative phrase ‘campfire democracy,’ reflecting the manner in which members of a band gathered, often around a central fire, to make the big decisions collectively as peers.

The language of Citizenship is crucial, and the contest for its meaning is one that must be engaged in, not conceded. The Citizenship at the heart of this book is not a question of what passport we hold, it is a story of who we are as human beings: a question of what we can do, and what we should. In these terms, there is no human – regardless of t

How might Patagonia involve us, beyond just selling us less damaging stuff? Such an approach would not challenge everything the company does; rather, it would reframe it, and as a result open up so much more. The emphasis would be on maximising connection, inspiration, and participation. For example, the Footprint Chronicles might be refocused to g

Because ‘the Consumer is King,’ we believe that we are in charge. The glittering array of available choices makes us forget that there might be possibilities beyond the menu, or damage inherent in the very dynamic of our choice between them. That’s true not just in stores with crowded aisles, but in politics with its well-packaged candidates, datin