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How We Are Seeding the New World
How We Are Seeding the New World
A story that you can be part of — live it out with us!
Joe Brewer · 258 views
The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here
The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here
We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.
Joe Brewer · 16,007 views
If I Die Before We Wake… This is for the Healers
If I Die Before We Wake… This is for the Healers
Are you a healer who is trying to bring love and light into this world? If so, you might feel the way I do sometimes… in those moments of clarity about how big the forces of harm have...
Joe Brewer · 2,624 views
You Pay More Taxes Than Exxon Mobil
You Pay More Taxes Than Exxon Mobil
Want a simple way to tell if humanity is taking the threat of global warming seriously? Ask yourself this question: Does Exxon Mobil pay more taxes than at least one U.S. citizen? That’s...
Joe Brewer · 15,884 views
There Is Life After Civilization Collapse
There Is Life After Civilization Collapse
We are living through the collapse of the first truly global civilization in Earth’s history. This is bigger than the fall of Rome. Much more dramatic than the end for the Mayans...
Joe Brewer · 9,303 views
A Design School for Planetary Collapse
A Design School for Planetary Collapse
Design schools all over the world are failing their students by ignoring the most important challenges they will face as they live through a time of unprecedented disruption and...
Joe Brewer · 4,621 views
Protests Feed What They Oppose
Protests Feed What They Oppose
A “memetic” observation about all the resistance marches since Trump took office… the protests feed what they oppose. There is a finite amount of emotional energy available in the world...
Joe Brewer · 3,705 views
We Stand for All Sacred Life on Earth
We Stand for All Sacred Life on Earth
All that is sacred in this world has become threatened by a pathological cultural system of wealth extraction and hoarding... Awaken and take a stand for life on Earth.
Joe Brewer · 8,393 views
Cultural Evolution in the Anthropocene
Cultural Evolution in the Anthropocene
Where humanity is going, there are no roadmaps. The terrain is unlike anything we’ve seen before. The changes sweeping the Earth right now are literally planetary in scale and so filled...
Joe Brewer · 1,666 views
All Change or No Change?
All Change or No Change?
This is a story of power, but perhaps not the traditional kind. The kinds of power we are interested in are the deep currents.... the cultural forces that shape all of our lives at the...
Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel and Joe Brewer · 3,055 views
We Are All Stepping Into a Broken Future
We Are All Stepping Into a Broken Future
Your feelings of pain and uncertainty are real. The world is now in a time of darkness. Shadows are all around us. It can be very confusing and painful. But it may reassure you to know...
Joe Brewer · 14,522 views
The Deep Truth About "Fake News"
The Deep Truth About "Fake News"
Peel back the layers of information about “fake news” and a deeper truth begins to take shape. We start to see outlines of hidden media worlds that give birth to very different...
Joe Brewer · 8,519 views
The Most Powerful Algorithm in the World
The Most Powerful Algorithm in the World
After the insanity of the U.S. election, a lot of people are blaming Facebook for its algorithms that parse us into ideological bubbles and spread “fake news” and other kinds of...
Joe Brewer · 4,191 views
Living Through the Death of Capitalism
Living Through the Death of Capitalism
Now is the time to hold strong to our humanity. The world is changing quickly and much is at stake. It is even possible that our entire global civilization will collapse in our lifetime...
Joe Brewer · 12,099 views
Why I Didn't Vote Trump or Hillary
Why I Didn't Vote Trump or Hillary
This is my ballot. It arrived in the mail where I live in Washington state — and I’ve already sent it back to the elections committee. Note how I didn’t vote for either Donald Trump or...
Joe Brewer · 4,994 views
Living in a World of Billion Dollar Lies
Living in a World of Billion Dollar Lies
Are you having a hard time knowing who to trust? Not sure what is going on in the world? Is your Facebook feed full of lies, misdirections, and half truths? This is because billions of...
Joe Brewer · 5,608 views
Political Revolution Is About Waking Up
Political Revolution Is About Waking Up
Have you been watching the political circus in the United States wondering why so many people are putting up with this nonsense? Trust me, you are not alone. There are millions of us who...
Joe Brewer · 15,623 views
The Parasitic Logic of Profit-Making
The Parasitic Logic of Profit-Making
What does it mean to earn a profit in an extractive economy? Simply put, it means to behave like a parasite. All you need do is attach yourself to a nutrient-rich host and suck the value...
Joe Brewer · 13,673 views
Let's Stop the Wealth Hoarders
Let's Stop the Wealth Hoarders
They mindlessly consume wealth — and destroy the planet.
Joe Brewer · 30,063 views
Capitalism Has a Metaphor - It's a Cancer
Capitalism Has a Metaphor - It's a Cancer
My mother died of cancer five years ago. While most of the cells in her body grew and reproduced at a rate that merely kept her alive, there were a few rogue cells that mutated and...
Joe Brewer · 46,932 views
Are You Hopeful about the Future? I Am. With Eyes Wide Open. Here's Why.
Are You Hopeful about the Future? I Am. With Eyes Wide Open. Here's Why.
It is a delicate balance to know how much the world is messed up and still be hopeful about the future. This is something I dance with on a daily basis — while writing about systemic...
Joe Brewer · 5,762 views
Suffering From Rampant Individualism?
Suffering From Rampant Individualism?
Do you suffer from loneliness? Feel isolated and distant from other people? Do you long for connection? Strive and hope to be noticed? To be loved? To be heard? To be touched? To be...
Joe Brewer · 13,170 views
Why Don't We Take Action on the Global Crisis?
Why Don't We Take Action on the Global Crisis?
Taking action requires practice, and that means training for it. Simply put, we have not been training to build the skills necessary for actively evolving the institutions of our...
Joe Brewer · 1,419 views
How Political Mind Control Works
How Political Mind Control Works
The illusion of power IS a kind of real power. There is a lesson in this for the majority of humanity.
Joe Brewer · 32,542 views
The Cultural Sickness That Needs to Be Named
The Cultural Sickness That Needs to Be Named
All over the world there is a feeling that something is deeply wrong. It is often felt more than seen, an unnamed darkness that keeps millions (even billions) of people disconnected from...
Joe Brewer · 26,344 views
Now Is the Time to Be Rooted in Reality
Now Is the Time to Be Rooted in Reality
In this time of unprecedented global change, we need to be rooted in reality more than ever. Yet it is quite clear — by simply tracking all the ways people make an exodus from “the real”...
Joe Brewer · 3,833 views
Cultivating Empathy for the NEXT Crisis
Cultivating Empathy for the NEXT Crisis
A central question for this moment in history is how do we collectively navigate a crescendoing wave of crises and move toward planetary resilience and thriving?
Joe Brewer · 3,384 views
How the "Bad Guy" Hides in Your Mind
How the "Bad Guy" Hides in Your Mind
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as “the bad guy.” Every time we see an enemy it is because our minds have projected them onto the world. If we didn’t...
Joe Brewer · 8,696 views
The Great Lie of Living on a Dead Planet
The Great Lie of Living on a Dead Planet
The modern era is built on a theory of the Universe as a giant mechanical clock — dead matter with gears and springs.
Joe Brewer · 8,821 views
Will There Still Be Ivory Towers in a World Without Elephants?
Will There Still Be Ivory Towers in a World Without Elephants?
Universities have become detached places for the pursuit of career advancement — a fantasy world in these turbulent times.
Joe Brewer · 5,411 views
Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence
Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence
We can all feel it — the mental disease of late-stage capitalism is causing widespread depression, an epidemic of suicides, chronic feelings of guilt and shame, and a general malaise of...
Joe Brewer · 7,515 views
Solving a Problem That Has Not Been Named
Solving a Problem That Has Not Been Named
Many changes happening around us remain unclear. We need better names and stories for them.
Joe Brewer · 859 views
Who Is Creating the Future Nobody Wants?
Who Is Creating the Future Nobody Wants?
Here’s an amazing fact: It’s 2016 and humanity is collectively moving toward a future that nobody wants. We are literally going somewhere that will hurt every single one of us. Mass...
Joe Brewer · 28,924 views
The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism Dying
The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism Dying
I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer · 57,002 views
Do You Get Out of Bed in the Morning to Make Money for Billionaires?
Do You Get Out of Bed in the Morning to Make Money for Billionaires?
We have been told a great lie about capitalism — that everyone who works hard in life will be successful, make a lot of money, and have a good life.
Joe Brewer · 3,432 views
Can We Let Capitalism Die and Move On?
Can We Let Capitalism Die and Move On?
Death can be very painful and confusing. This is true for economic systems just as it is for personal loved ones. Moving on is just a hard thing to do.
Joe Brewer · 5,250 views
We Need a Social Movement for Healing Broken People
We Need a Social Movement for Healing Broken People
The world is a pretty screwed up place. So how do we fix it when we ourselves are broken? This is the question that rarely gets asked — and it is a keystone piece of the solution to all...
Joe Brewer · 17,439 views
The Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism
The Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism
I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends recently — in private where they felt comfortable letting their guard down — about the dirty little secret no one is supposed to talk...
Joe Brewer · 101,890 views
The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction
The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction
Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by...
Joe Brewer · 5,909 views
Why Don't We Feel as Burned by the Panama Papers as We Do by Donald Trump?
Why Don't We Feel as Burned by the Panama Papers as We Do by Donald Trump?
Outrage abounds these days, but the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention
Joe Brewer · 2,690 views
Hacking the Sustainable Development Discourse
Hacking the Sustainable Development Discourse
A Narrative Strategy for Changing the Story of Global Development
Joe Brewer · 501 views
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