My article linked below appears (page 13) in Issue 68 of The Light, a free, independently distributed monthly paper that asks the questions the mainstream won’t. This edition carries sharp structural analysis worth reading alongside it: Rusere Shoniwa traces the managed transition of global capital through the BRICS framework, while Escape Key dissects how the Bank of England emerged from the Truss episode with more power than it entered it — a textbook demonstration of the ratchet mechanism at the heart of institutionalised hierarchy.
The article sets out the three structural flaws of the incumbent system and introduces the web of direct value exchange already growing alongside it. It is necessarily brief for a general audience, but it opens a door: An economy without money – Bypass the banks by sharing, trading and giving – by CLIVE MENZIES
The Light issue 68 (free monthly)
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www.thelightpaper.co.uk
A follow-up article is in development that goes deeper — into how platforms like Google, Amazon and Facebook have inadvertently socialised knowledge, skills and problem-solving at planetary scale, demonstrating the viability of what a more intentional coordination layer could achieve, and what the transition from fear-based to love-based organisation actually looks like structurally.
Categories Thinking • Tags Co-creative learning, commons, DACSO, direct value handling, economic collapse, energy, hierarchy, money, paradigm shift, plunder, political economy, self-organisation, structure, usury, value
