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Entries from April 2008

What’s a failed utopia?

April 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Do we change from within or from outside factors? Is change possible from within the system or is a new system needed? If we choose to work from within the system, do we work from the roots or from the top? Or perhaps; from all these angles at the same time?
All these big questions sometimes […]

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Tags: Capitalism · Utopia? · Resource-based Economy · Non-competitive Economy

Does the future still exist?

April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

For a long time I was looking for solutions to problems we have in our society within the established ideologies and political parties. But even though this political activism taught me a lot about current issues, and gave me various groups to “belong” to, I was always frustrated over how much energy had to be […]

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Tags: Paradigm Shift · The Journey

Boom and Bust, Visionaries and Business

April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

It is hard to picture a total social and environmental breakdown and it’s easy and comfortable to dismiss these kinds of predictions. But on the 13 of June 2007 it was ‘made official’: the Crash of the U.S. Economy had begun. In a column titled “The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust” in The Washington […]

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Tags: Capitalism · Futurists & Thinkers · Documentary: Future for Sale · Resource-based Economy

Is competition still necessary?

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Finding a way to marry our current economic system with humanistic and environmental concerns seems to be the challenge of our time, but is this perhaps an inherent contradiction?
In human history “the survival of the fittest” has been a matter of competing over available resources. In modern times this competition has been structured into a […]

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Tags: Capitalism · Paradigm Shift · Utopia? · Non-competitive Economy