So Many stories on Medium are About Societal Collapse.

But so few stories on what we can do about it.

This tells me that most doomsayer commentators are not seeking out real long range solutions by creating organizations and projects that try to help all of us survive this collapse. A lot of this is because they have not been involved in the hundreds of movements that have happened since the ‘60’s, where they learned what worked and what didn’t work in movement building.

Many did not know the difference between Rebellion and Revolution. They called the massive Rebellion in Tahir Square in Cairo, a Revolution. But most rebellions, often sparked by a single event captured on Social Media, don’t survive, and the authoritarian systems remains in power. Why is that?

Because it was not rooted in a clear understanding of the system they faced, globalized Capitalism, with its destructive values. And as a result they relied on a capitalist owned app, Facebook, to do their organizing. They had not followed the new autonomous, horizontally led movements like the Zapatistas and the Kurdish movement in Rojava, based on different values. They had not created the institutions and organizations that could give people the agency and vision needed to help their people decolonize their thinking from Capitalist Values. So they created a huge…