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    An Introduction: This Book In A Nutshell
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
    1. The Age Of Alienation: Becoming Hyper-Individuals
    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...
    2. And Then It Collapsed: Civilisation As The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme
    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...
    3. The Grandest Tale: Our One True Superpower
    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...
    5. Flirting With The F Word: The Radical Populist Resurgence
    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...
    4. The Last Gasps Of Neoliberalism
    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...
    6. What Lies Beneath: The Hungry Ghosts Of Hollow Materialism
    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...
    7. The Age Of Algorithms: A Transhumanist's Dream
    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...
    8. A Time Of Togetherness: An Emergent Consensus
    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...
    9. A Collective Blooming: Towards The Compassionate Global Village
    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,...
    10. The Story Of Us: A Thought Experiment
    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...
    11. Find The Others: Start A Collective
    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...
    12. Coming Home: The Many Benefits Of Getting Collective
    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...
    13. The 2020’s: The Perfect Storm For Collective Emergence
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Oct 3, 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...
    14. The Who: Not Just For Millennials
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Oct 2, 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...
    15. Where It Can Take Us: Collective Dreams Of Tomorrow
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Oct 1, 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...
    16. Tawai: Modernities Missing Secret Sauce
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Sep 30, 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...
    17. The Ultimate Petri Dish: Create Your Own Culture
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Sep 29, 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,...
    18. Mirrored & Seen: The Wisdom Of 100 Eyes
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Sep 28, 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....
    19. Enter The Dojo: Becoming A Community Creature
    Joe Lightfoot
    • Sep 27, 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...
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