Funding structures are built for #NGO nonsense, not grassroots projects where actual value is created. The #OMN, #indymediaback, and #OGB challenge this, but funders can’t grasp it because they don’t understand value outside institutional framing.
Fixing the funding #blocking – funders need to THINK, not just UNDERSTAND. Right now, they “understand” in the framework of existing institutions, which means they miss the metaphor-driven, emergent nature of projects like the #OMN. Our #Hashtag story is for THINKING, not passive understanding, its purpures is a useful tool to push the conversation forward, not dogma to be accepted or rejected. Treating the hashtags as fixed truths leads to #blocking the needed real change.
We need to break out of this cycle – 20 years of #techshit – which is still strengthening the gatekeepers, we can’t keep playing by these rules. The biggest realization here is that common sense truth and metaphor are not the same. Funders, #NGOs, and the #mainstreaming crew think in terms of common sense fixed truths, while real change comes from dynamic thinking. That’s why they keep failing us.
So, how do we move forward?
