Thread by @brightabyss

I reject the premise that the current global mess we are all in is based solely on “the stories we tell.” These systems (in both their pathological and regenerative forms) are fundamentally relational. This means also material & energetic. Relations are never solely about ideas.

Relations of economic production. Relations of social reproduction. There are systemic and structural relations between bodies, plants, microbes, polities, climate, tools, animals, militaries, institutions, rivers, cops, etc., that generate the very conditions of life.

So if we want to improve the conditions for living we need to do more that just talk, or express, or weave new narratives. We need to forge new relations, “right relations” (as some indigenous folk put it). We need to renegotiate our arrangements with each other and ecology.

This requires a complex mix of science, folk knowledge, ‘wild experimentation,’ and bottom-up adaptation (trial and error) appropriate to local contexts and bioregional capacity.

Let’s start by cultivating healthy soil, families, and local economies. Then build outward.