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Pick up a shovel, the work is ours
The right-wing feeds on division.
The left-wing grows from trust.
This simple #KISS truth is buried under decades of shit.
Stalinism’s dead weight.
Postmodernism’s cynical fog.
Neoliberalism’s greed-choked rot.
All piled onto our social soil.
Now we stand in the stink:
social, technological, political, philosophical mess.
We don’t deny it.
We compost it.
We turn the pile, let it breathe,
make decay into fertile ground.
From this soil, we grow a humane culture.
Trust. Commons. Care.
A path beyond the #deathcult.
Pick up a shovel.
The work is ours.
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-victimhood-narrative-needs-composting/
What is #blocking this simple step away,
one reason is the #mainstreaming insist you use the “proper channels”
is because they own the channels.
They wrote the rules. They staffed the committees.
They built a maze where the end is always defeat.
That’s why they’re so confident it “won’t work.”
Because it isn’t designed to.
The proper channels exist to bleed energy,
to bury dissent in paperwork and “stakeholder processes,”
to keep power safe where it already sits.
The #OMN takes the opposite path.
No hard gatekeepers. No “proper channels.”
Just open flows. #4opens all the way down.
Instead of wasting years trying to squeeze through their pipes,
we compost their mess and build new streams.
Trust networks. Shared publishing.
Messy collectives that actually do the work
instead of talking it to death.
That’s what really scares the #mainstreaming people most.
That we don’t need their channels at all.
That we can walk away and build our own.
https://opencollective.com/open-media-network