Horizontal Hostility Conference Intro
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Horizontal Hostility
<<<
"Collective Stupidity"
en.ecoinversion.net/hh
What is it?
massive mis-direction of energy, time, resources ...
Collective Intelligence
1%
99%
Horizontal Hostility Online Conference
1st November 2014
Honoring the dead (people, hopes & projects - YOURS ???)
Celebrating our s/heroes
Lucia
Maxine
Nuria
HH kills
Edward Snowden
Julian Assange
Fighting for Justice REQUIRES Solidarity
Collective Intelligence& Solidarityare Cultural Memes
they are Fractals,Memes
Why highlight this & Why now?
30yrs of seeing HH split our progressive movements
Lierre Keith
Anita Sarkeesian
+ some very
vicious attacksGreat Spirits
have always encountered
violent opposition
from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
A massacre of dialogue and of brilliant people's lives
10 Steps from Democracy to Fascism
(Naomi Woolf)
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create a gulag.
3. Develop a thug caste.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system.
5. Harass citizens' groups.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
7. Target key individuals.
8. Control the press.
9. Dissent equals treason.
10. Suspend the rule of law.
We need to be designing stronger Planetary Chaordic
Structures, Designing for more Participatory
Democracy, Collective Intelligence (Holomidal CI) ..
BUT
Transition Movement / Decrecimiento Movement / Online - Onsite (exclusion) / Complementary Currencies /
Solidarity Economics...
EcoVillage Pioneers & EcoBuilders under attack
...
Even most EcoEducators are not Cooperating
NorieHuddle.
Activist, Author&one of our speakers
1990 "Butterfly A tiny tale of great transformation"
Imaginal Cells
One of our most important tasks is building a Culture of
Resistance.
Cultures of Resistance are important for many reasons - here are a few:
• They support radical views that are unpopular in the general culture
• They aid in training and development of resistors
• They lead to the creation of revolutionary and community organizations
• They allow people with different levels of engagement in political struggle to support a movement
• They create space for dialogue on important subjects
• They serve as the fertile soil from which effective resistance movements grow.
Max Wilbert.
Activist, Author&one of our speakers
A Culture for Imaginal Cells
(Activists) to thrive in
Adult, psychologically & morally mature humans are corageous: able to committ to their own
freely chosen principles.
The dominant consumerist culture pulls
us strongly to stay immature, frightened,
indecisive & egotistical.
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<< courage, integrity
What's very interesting about our (current cultural) confusion about activists ...... is that we flock to movies full of s/heros who are passionate fighters for justice, whom we admire and cheer on screen ... but then in our own real life we don't recognize them, mis-understand them or even fight / damage them.
• passionately care for Life, and justice, • are very clear about right & wrong • & who the enemy is, • they display great intelligence & creativity in choosing effective strategies, •as well as enormous courage in doing whatever needs to be done to stop the oppressors from destroying more of what they love. • Although they blow up plenty of things & even kill people on the way, it is very clear that
they are driven by love, not hate.
& apart from all the s/hero films.. we have some useful popular mythologies... eg.
'Indigo Adults' are all around usalso known as the
'Imaginal Cells' of the new world
Fighting for Justice REQUIRES Coherence
A paradigm changes when the
contradictions become too great
&/or evident...
... and there are enough clear
activists organizing effectively to bring in the new Paradigm.
Derrick JensenAlmu Gonzales
Rachel Ivey
Pepa Rodriguez
Jose Zamora
Helo Primavera
“We are either going to have a future
where women lead the way to make
peace with the Earth or we are not going
to have a human future at all.”
Vandana Shiva
Max WilbertNorie Huddle
ActionLearning..
We are co-creating a great action-study resource as an anti-virus proposal to the disease of Horizontal Hostility.
Practice courage:Tell your story!- help writing articles- interview someone- be interviewed- participate in the discussions - START the discussions!- contribute in text, video o audio - make ART!
Study, Share, & ACT differently: be a model
for others
facebook.com/groups/HHConference
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