Joe Lightfoot
An Introduction: This Book In A Nutshell
This is a bitesized book about rediscovering each other. It explores how cultivating new types of community can bring untold fulfilment...
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Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
1. The Age Of Alienation: Becoming Hyper-Individuals
‘All of us are pretty good at carrying the secret of our own loneliness’ Carl Rogers Somewhere along the way, we lost touch with each...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 14, 2020
- 2 min
2. And Then It Collapsed: Civilisation As The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme
There is a growing consensus in academia that unless we make rapid, radical and far reaching changes to our way of life, then there’s a...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
3. The Grandest Tale: Our One True Superpower
Superman has X ray vision. The Hulk, uncanny strength. And Humans, well, we have stories. And while that may sound slightly unimpressive...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
4. The Last Gasps Of Neoliberalism
For over thirty years Neoliberalism has been the dominant cultural narrative of modern society. In theory, it’s a story that places a...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
5. Flirting With The F Word: The Radical Populist Resurgence
Suddenly the politicians were yelling again. A new wave of ‘strong men’ had emerged and sensing weakness in the Neoliberal world order...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 11, 2020
- 4 min
6. What Lies Beneath: The Hungry Ghosts Of Hollow Materialism
While there are a vast range of competing narratives currently playing out across human society, it appears to me that the most pervasive...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
7. The Age Of Algorithms: A Transhumanist's Dream
The Age of Algorithms is upon us. A time of artificial intelligence, automated industry and driverless vehicles. A world in which data is...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 9, 2020
- 2 min
8. A Time Of Togetherness: An Emergent Consensus
There is an alternative consensus emerging with many philosophers, economists and social theorists all appear to be arriving at a very...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
9. A Collective Blooming: Towards The Compassionate Global Village
A Collective Blooming is a narrative that revolves around the cultivation of community. It envisions a planet wide network of peaceful,...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 6, 2020
- 5 min
10. The Story Of Us: A Thought Experiment
Imagine we’re part of a small group of five people who don’t yet know one another, but are about become a very important part of each...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 5, 2020
- 6 min
11. Find The Others: Start A Collective
Conscious Change Collectives (which I’ll just refer to as Collectives from here on in) are a new form of mutual aid community, made up of...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 4, 2020
- 3 min
12. Coming Home: The Many Benefits Of Getting Collective
There are many benefits to participating in ‘true community’, which the author M. Scott Peck defined as being ‘a group of individuals who...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 4, 2020
- 2 min
13. The 2020’s: The Perfect Storm For Collective Emergence
From our time together in hunter gatherer tribes, to our more contemporary experiments in establishing Citizens Assemblies, Communes and...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 3, 2020
- 5 min
14. The Who: Not Just For Millennials
My Generation Collectives tend to attract people of all ages, with each generation being drawn towards the experience for slightly...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 2, 2020
- 5 min
15. Where It Can Take Us: Collective Dreams Of Tomorrow
Let’s return now to our imagined Collective from Chapter 10, The Story Of Us. But this time we rejoin the group five years into the...
Joe Lightfoot
- Oct 1, 2020
- 3 min
16. Tawai: Modernities Missing Secret Sauce
For hundreds of thousands of years our species evolved to live in the wilderness, wandering the land with a close tribe of highly...
Joe Lightfoot
- Sep 30, 2020
- 3 min
17. The Ultimate Petri Dish: Create Your Own Culture
One of the major benefits of forming Collectives is that it gives us an opportunity to co-create our very own micro cultures. After all,...
Joe Lightfoot
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
18. Mirrored & Seen: The Wisdom Of 100 Eyes
One of the many quirks of being human is that each one of us appears to come fully equipped with our very own psychological blind spots....
Joe Lightfoot
- Sep 28, 2020
- 5 min
19. Enter The Dojo: Becoming A Community Creature
In order for us to collectively step into a new societal narrative, we’ll first have to identify and evolve beyond the outdated...