Show Notes
I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced "Co'burn" cos it's Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks!
We cover:
🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies.
🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy.
🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar.
🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper!
🪶 Will politicians ever "solve" climate change?
🪶 Why you can't question capitalism
🪶 How the growth imperative works
🪶 Changing the narrative through language
🪶 The debt treadmill for "developing" nations
🪶 The closest thing we've had to utopia in human history!
🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling
🪶 Hitting bodily limits
🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel
🪶 Riches without an income
🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity
🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution!
🪶 How to share even when you're a scoundrel only child like me
🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS
Linda's books
The Quiet Revolution [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/the-quiet-revolution/] (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life)
Eat My Shadow [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/eat-my-shadow-pb/] (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!)
Living the Good Life [https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/living-the-good-life-by-linda-cockburn/9781740663120]
Linda's articles in Organic Gardener magazine [https://www.organicgardener.com.au/author/linda-cockburn/]
A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers [https://greenagenda.org.au/2024/06/my-planet-saving-superpowers/]
Linda on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/_the_quiet_revolution_/]
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight-9781742747323]
Seed Freaks [https://seedfreaks.com.au/] ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania
David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter's Guide to a Resilient Future [https://retrosuburbia.com/]
Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns [https://freesound.org/s/321466/] License: Attribution 4.0
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