Our hashtags try to name it: #stupidindividualism #deathcult #dotcons #nothingnew in that we repeat the same patterns, inside the same systems, and wonder why nothing changes. What does mainstreaming do? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-does-mainstreaming-do/
Our hashtags try to name it: #stupidindividualism #deathcult #dotcons #nothingnew in that we repeat the same patterns, inside the same systems, and wonder why nothing changes. What does mainstreaming do? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-does-mainstreaming-do/
How do you understand a conservative worldview?
The culture of hopelessness is a deeply conservative reaction to social change and challenge. It is marked by reflexive opposition and inward-looking tribalism, rather than by hope, solidarity, or progress. Instead of imagining alternatives, it retreats into irony and disengagement.
Meme culture and pervasive sarcasm are good examples of this tendency. They often reinforce a narrow, consumerist worldview that feels clever but lacks the power to engage with or transform wider social […]
Change and challenge
Let’s be honest about something we usually skate around. Many of our #fluffy activist friends are not fighting for change. They are fighting for equality of access to the existing system. That system is the #deathcult - growth, extraction, hierarchy, control - and most progressive mainstream activism is about making that worship fairer, nicer, more inclusive. More seats in the temple, better language on the altar, safer rituals for those already kneeling. This is not transformation, it is […]
Change and challenge
Let’s be honest about something we usually skate around. Many of our #fluffy activist friends are not fighting for change. They are fighting for equality of access to the existing system. That system is the #deathcult - growth, extraction, hierarchy, control - and most progressive mainstream activism is about making that worship fairer, nicer, more inclusive. More seats in the temple, better language on the altar, safer rituals for those already kneeling. This is not transformation, it is […]
A mainstream example of (stupid) individualism
Have you noticed how, over the last few decades, many sentences are repeated so often they start to become "common sense"? “You need to love yourself” is one of these, it sounds harmless, kind, even progressive. But this sentence didn’t only reshape how we feel about ourselves - it reshapes how the economy works. This is a story about how "self-esteem" become an engine of #stupidindividualism, that helped produce the explosion of inequality and mess we now live inside.
Today, […]
A mainstream example of (stupid) individualism
Have you noticed how, over the last few decades, many sentences are repeated so often they start to become "common sense"? “You need to love yourself” is one of these, it sounds harmless, kind, even progressive. But this sentence didn’t only reshape how we feel about ourselves - it reshapes how the economy works. This is a story about how "self-esteem" become an engine of #stupidindividualism, that helped produce the explosion of inequality and mess we now live inside.
Today, […]
Progressive Mainstreaming
Most progressive #mainstreaming isn’t about ending the #deathcult - it’s about making its worship feel more fair, more inclusive, more polite. There is some real everyday value in this. Fewer people get crushed immediately, some suffering is reduced, that matters.
But let’s be honest about what it does not do, it does not get people off their knees to challenge the altar to stop the sacrifice. It rearranges the seating in the temple, feeding the deeper problem, obedience. Progressive […]
Progressive Mainstreaming
Most progressive #mainstreaming isn’t about ending the #deathcult - it’s about making its worship feel more fair, more inclusive, more polite. There is some real everyday value in this. Fewer people get crushed immediately, some suffering is reduced, that matters.
But let’s be honest about what it does not do, it does not get people off their knees to challenge the altar to stop the sacrifice. It rearranges the seating in the temple, feeding the deeper problem, obedience. Progressive […]
There is such a thing as society -and the #openweb depends on it
There is such a thing as society. The entire #openweb is built on that assumption 🙂Deny it, and everything collapses into noise, power grabs, and enclosure. That denial, dressed up today as “post-truth” - is killing us.
Our current media ecology is broken. So called #AI and Google are no longer a useful way to find information about most things that actually matter. This isn’t accidental; it’s a structural #dotcons problem. Extraction, advertising, and algorithmic manipulation […]
There is such a thing as society -and the #openweb depends on it
There is such a thing as society. The entire #openweb is built on that assumption 🙂Deny it, and everything collapses into noise, power grabs, and enclosure. That denial, dressed up today as “post-truth” - is killing us.
Our current media ecology is broken. So called #AI and Google are no longer a useful way to find information about most things that actually matter. This isn’t accidental; it’s a structural #dotcons problem. Extraction, advertising, and algorithmic manipulation […]
One of the problems with the current pile of shit is that meany people think they’re right, so they retreat into small tribalisms and spend their energy attacking whoever is closest, to no effect.
This #fashionista #lifestyleism is bred by #stupidindividualism, which itself is a product of the #deathcult we’ve all been worshipping for the last forty years.
It feels like action. It looks like virtue. But it goes nowhere.
Instead of digging, people posture. Instead of building, they fight over aesthetics and identity. The pile just gets higher.
You don’t fix this by being more correct.
You fix it by picking up a shovel.
One of the problems with the current pile of shit is that meany people think they’re right, so they retreat into small tribalisms and spend their energy attacking whoever is closest, to no effect.
This #fashionista #lifestyleism is bred by #stupidindividualism, which itself is a product of the #deathcult we’ve all been worshipping for the last forty years.
It feels like action. It looks like virtue. But it goes nowhere.
Instead of digging, people posture. Instead of building, they fight over aesthetics and identity. The pile just gets higher.
You don’t fix this by being more correct.
You fix it by picking up a shovel.
Digital Detox Is Urgently Needed
Fighting #fashionistas with fashion. We have an app outline for that: iPhone or android.
Not as a lifestyle tweak, not as wellness branding, not as another individual “better habits” story. These proposed apps and the wider projects have nothing to do with self-optimisation, productivity hacks, or personal purity. Framing it that way is already defeat - that’s #stupidindividualism doing the work of the #dotcons for them.
What we’re facing in our digital mess isn’t only a failure […]
Digital Detox Is Urgently Needed
Fighting #fashionistas with fashion. We have an app outline for that: iPhone or android.
Not as a lifestyle tweak, not as wellness branding, not as another individual “better habits” story. These proposed apps and the wider projects have nothing to do with self-optimisation, productivity hacks, or personal purity. Framing it that way is already defeat - that’s #stupidindividualism doing the work of the #dotcons for them.
What we’re facing in our digital mess isn’t only a failure […]
We are not suffering from a shortage of “great leaders”
What we are suffering from a shortage of collective pathways. The crisis we are walking into isn’t caused by a lack of charisma or vision at the top. It’s caused by the cultural trap we’ve built around individual solutions to systemic problems. #stupidindividualism - the obsession with personal leaders, personal brands, personal genius - is going to kill millions and displace billions over the next 20 years. Not because individuals are inherently harmful, but because individualism is […]
We need to reboot "news" on the #openweb to tackle the challenges of our collective #stupidindividualism and the #techshit it pushes in the #Fediverse. Thinking about news on the #fediverse https://hamishcampbell.com/thinking-about-news-on-the-fediverse/
Why open infrastructure matters to the #OMN
It is about the Invisible Commons, every programmer - from hobbyists hacking together weekend scripts to the coders inside Microsoft, Google, Meta - relies on open-source software. It’s the compost layer under everything. Between 70% and 90% of every app, service, and system we use is built on shared, public #FOSS code. Nobody starts from scratch, everyone pulls from libraries on GitHub/GitLab, built and maintained by people who believe in the commons.
Developers spend two-thirds of their […]
Manifesto for the Hashtag Commons
Outreach for the #OMN path, for the past year, the hashtag story has taken shape, not as branding, not as marketing, but as a shared language for navigating the mess we’re in. Each tag is compost: lived experience, memory of struggle, lessons from broken movements, glimpses of collective futures. Together they form a map of where we have been and the ground we are trying to rebuild.
This story is now done enough to act as a tool: a framework that connects all the projects, all the […]
Why open infrastructure matters to the #OMN
It is about the Invisible Commons, every programmer - from hobbyists hacking together weekend scripts to the coders inside Microsoft, Google, Meta - relies on open-source software. It’s the compost layer under everything. Between 70% and 90% of every app, service, and system we use is built on shared, public #FOSS code. Nobody starts from scratch, everyone pulls from libraries on GitHub/GitLab, built and maintained by people who believe in the commons.
Developers spend two-thirds of their […]
