[[2020-06-22]] # Zach Bush Doctor turned soil specialist. Zach Bush talking about communication networks between mitochondria, and bacteria and fungi in the soil. The foundation of life is communication. If you perturb communication, the first thing you lose is identity. He compares the gut and the soil. If you lose diversity, you lose communicaton. If you lose communication, you lose identity. If you lose identity, you become a cancer cell. (cf. We the People - importance of commnication) Owning land is a fiction. You only own land when you have a dominant story. But as soon as someone comes along with a more dominant story, you will lose your land. That's what indigeneous people have always known. # Alnoor Ladha Anarchist. Alnoor Ladha. Neoliberalism is our oxygen. It's a complex adaptive system. It's a living system. We should be good students of our system. There are simple rules. Compound interest is a rule. Article he wrote: https://doubleblindmag.com/conscious-capitalism-is-an-alibi-and-an-apology-for-our-existing-paradigm/ # Helena Norberg-Hodge I like her concept of Reality Tours. # Charles Eisenstein A future we want to live in is not going to have the corporations we have today. But the corporation is a symptom. We need to ask what is capital? It is a system of agreements. Money, property, etc. Social agreements can be changed. What is the basis of that change? No trivial answer to that question. Basis is our lived experience. Some people are called to spread change on that level. Capitalism is like trauma. The system causes the consciousness, and the consciousness causes the system. That's why we are stuck. How do we get out of trauma?