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Changing the Narrative for Community Leadership

With the old news business changing this is an exciting time of opportunity and threat, said...

Podcast: Freeing Yourself from Consumer Culture

What is the free market consumer ideology? How does its assumptions affect our lives? In this “The One You Feed” podcast, guest Peter Block discusses concepts from his book, An Other Kingdom, including the pillars of the free market consumer ideology: Scarcity, Certainty, Perfection, and Privatization. As people search for meaning and freedom, Peter shares how neighborliness and covenant are part of an alternative narrative.

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Quotes:

“Questions bring us together. Answers alienate us.”

“The scarcity mindset is a lie. There is enough.”

“The ‘how’ question destroys our faith in each other, as if the only thing that matters is how long, how much, how predicable.”

Related Read:

The Consumer Economy and its Crushing Assumptions

Exploring transformational neighborhood change: Rich Jones

What happens when neighborhoods change? This article by Rich Jones, originally published in Streetvibes newspaper, explores...

The Stranger

John McKnight speaking about the gifts of the stranger.

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb