Monoculture

We have such pervasive extreme inequality it threatens the safety of everyone (even the wealthiest), while the story says that our primary responsibility is to compete against everyone else to hoard more. We have ecological breakdown, while the story insists that our identity and status rely upon further consumption. We have an epidemic of loneline

The paradigm we casually call business is just one approach to human exchange. It was built in an industrial era, and for it. Its fundamental assumptions—shareholder value creation, mass production, hierarchical management, disposable goods made for consumers—are today less profitable, useful, worthy, and beneficial than ever. Betterness, in contra

The Consumer Story goes like this: each of us is out for ourselves, and that is the way it should be. We are individuals, narrowly defined and independent of one another; the ‘self’ might extend as far as our immediate family, but no further.

our individual whims and wants have become fetishised, with ever more ludicrous business models evolving to meet and raise our Consumer desires and expectations. Many of us are working ever harder, while having ever more debt and fewer savings. What is more, this process has intensified even as our actual needs – for healthy ecosystems, coherent so