A direct democracy response to placelessness.
Placelessness is the loss of unique local character in a physical environment, replaced by homogenized landscapes. Coined by geographer Edward Relph, it describes how global consumer culture, corporate branding, and uniform architecture make disparate spaces.
Micro ecosystems burst forth constantly. Infrastructure nihilists armed with poison sprays and very large pumps subdue ecologies with wreckless intent, singularly united in their obeisance to fiat value.
People that care gain a home but lose the house. The fiat army marches across neighborhoods and watersheds, grinding sacred relationships into tradable abstractions.
The best available science is sold to justify the margins, paying off debts wins over allegiance to the integrity of water.
Yet those that still listen to the council of all beings are not yet dead. Children of the night still dream of poetic justice, planting seeds and watering parched visions of liberation.
Electrons pouncing between rare earth screens ignite coherence and cooperatives of sanity. Hackers clack on keyboards, dreaming of post extractivist futures. Eulogies for narcissist economies are written feverishly on napkins. Midwives of mycelial governments stare sycophants in the face and whisper quietly about co-regulated nervous systems.
Open source protocols infiltrate social unicorns with surgical precision.
Grotesque social tumors slowly scalpeled into piles of economic putrescence, dripping nutrient dense courage and fortitude into communities of coherence. The perversion of freedom and democracy drunkstumbles with incoherent populism while the bioregion brews a strong and bitter medicine.