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Simplicity, On Belonging, Oneness and How did we get into this mess?

The Simplicity Principle and why six is the perfect number for better management, by Julia Hobsbawn.
“Keep it simple” and “learn from nature” are positive mantras to live and work by. In other words, swap CAT — a work life of complexity, anxiety, and time poverty — for a KISS: keep it simple, sweetie. (It was poet and writer Maya Angelou who told me to replace stupid with sweetie, and she was wise: You can always be kind and compassionate.)

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In: On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation, Kim Samuel, takes aim at the growing crisis of social isolation and makes the case that belonging is a fundamental human right.

Samuel considers the concept of belonging across four core dimensions:

1. In our relationships with other people,
2. In our rootedness in nature,
3. In our ability to influence political and economic decision-making, and
4. In our finding of meaning and purpose in our lives.

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Oneness vs the 1% by Vandana Shiva.
She claims our lived reality is that the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population is pushing the planet―and all its people―to the social and ecological brink.  Further, their single-minded pursuit of profit has enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separ-ation, monopolies and external control ―over finance, food, energy, inform-ation, healthcare, and relationships.

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How Did We Get into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature
By George Monbiot, 2016 Verso Books.

George Monbiot assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. He makes a persuasive case for change in politics, economics, our everyday lives and the way we treat each other and the natural world.

… From MMM Issue #45, June-July 2024