Joe LightfootOct 16, 20201 minAn Introduction: This Book In A NutshellThis is a bitesized book about rediscovering each other. It explores how cultivating new types of community can bring untold fulfilment...
Joe LightfootOct 15, 20202 min1. 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 LightfootOct 14, 20202 min2. And Then It Collapsed: Civilisation As The Ultimate Pyramid SchemeThere 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 LightfootOct 13, 20203 min3. The Grandest Tale: Our One True SuperpowerSuperman has X ray vision. The Hulk, uncanny strength. And Humans, well, we have stories. And while that may sound slightly unimpressive...
Joe LightfootOct 12, 20202 min5. Flirting With The F Word: The Radical Populist ResurgenceSuddenly the politicians were yelling again. A new wave of ‘strong men’ had emerged and sensing weakness in the Neoliberal world order...
Joe LightfootOct 12, 20202 min4. The Last Gasps Of NeoliberalismFor over thirty years Neoliberalism has been the dominant cultural narrative of modern society. In theory, it’s a story that places a...
Joe LightfootOct 11, 20204 min6. What Lies Beneath: The Hungry Ghosts Of Hollow MaterialismWhile there are a vast range of competing narratives currently playing out across human society, it appears to me that the most pervasive...
Joe LightfootOct 10, 20202 min7. The Age Of Algorithms: A Transhumanist's DreamThe Age of Algorithms is upon us. A time of artificial intelligence, automated industry and driverless vehicles. A world in which data is...
Joe LightfootOct 9, 20202 min8. 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 LightfootOct 8, 20203 min9. A Collective Blooming: Towards The Compassionate Global VillageA Collective Blooming is a narrative that revolves around the cultivation of community. It envisions a planet wide network of peaceful,...
Joe LightfootOct 6, 20205 min10. The Story Of Us: A Thought ExperimentImagine 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 LightfootOct 5, 20206 min11. Find The Others: Start A CollectiveConscious 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 LightfootOct 4, 20203 min12. Coming Home: The Many Benefits Of Getting CollectiveThere are many benefits to participating in ‘true community’, which the author M. Scott Peck defined as being ‘a group of individuals who...
Joe LightfootOct 3, 20202 min13. The 2020’s: The Perfect Storm For Collective EmergenceFrom our time together in hunter gatherer tribes, to our more contemporary experiments in establishing Citizens Assemblies, Communes and...
Joe LightfootOct 2, 20205 min14. The Who: Not Just For MillennialsMy Generation Collectives tend to attract people of all ages, with each generation being drawn towards the experience for slightly...
Joe LightfootOct 1, 20205 min15. Where It Can Take Us: Collective Dreams Of TomorrowLet’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 LightfootSep 30, 20203 min16. Tawai: Modernities Missing Secret SauceFor hundreds of thousands of years our species evolved to live in the wilderness, wandering the land with a close tribe of highly...
Joe LightfootSep 29, 20203 min17. The Ultimate Petri Dish: Create Your Own CultureOne 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 LightfootSep 28, 20203 min18. Mirrored & Seen: The Wisdom Of 100 EyesOne 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 LightfootSep 27, 20205 min19. Enter The Dojo: Becoming A Community CreatureIn order for us to collectively step into a new societal narrative, we’ll first have to identify and evolve beyond the outdated...