Post-modernism is a dead philosophy that still rules the #mainstreaming

A. #Postmodernism is a dead philosophy that still rules the #mainstreaming.

Q. Zombie ideology.

A. Then we are zombies…

Q. Speak for yourself 🤣 I’ve rejected postmodernism entirely. I’m interested in natural law now, processes that hold true outside human consciousness.

A. That’s just what a zombie would say. Postmodernism aharrhhh…

Q. No, you are 💯 wrong.

A. Ahrrra goes the #zombie… Did you read the link to see if it’s relevant? 🙂

Q. Yes. I feel you are being a full cup. Let the tea flow.

A. Postmodernism is a discourse characterized by rejection of grand narratives, epistemological certainty, the stability of meaning, and the emphasis on ideology as a mechanism of truth… (cue zombie groans…)

Have you considered that your embrace of “natural law” might just be another way of doing the same thing? Ahrrrer goes the zombie.

It’s a tricky bind we all face. Maybe the first step out of this mess is revisiting modernism. Modernism (though, fair warning, it’s a bad article).

Q. I’m rejecting industrial civilization. That means rejecting postmodernism and modernism. Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Bakunin, all of them. I’m going deeper, looking at the foundations they all built upon. I’ll keep Kropotkin and the naturalists, but I’m done with “isms.” I may agree with aspects of certain ideas but never fully, and never blindly. I’m interested in natural law because of its raw objectivity, this is in total opposition to postmodernism, but it shares some similarities with #modernism.

A. So… back to modernism then? Let’s reboot it 🙂

“Iisms” are just ways of thinking. You have one, or you are a zombie… ahrrrahhh.

To reject “isms” as controlling forces is itself a postmodern move – zombie trap! 😉

Q. I agree with some aspects of modernism, but not all. I’d argue that subscribing to any “ism” makes you a zombie because you’re outsourcing your thinking. We need critical thinkers and people who question.

A. That’s headfirst into the zombie trap. You might need a fresh perspective to climb out 😉

Hint: #nothingnew, though probably not in the way you think. Fresh thinking on old issues.

Q. Hamish Campbell, unless you’re starting a cult, not every viewpoint outside your own is zombie 🧟‍♀️.

A. You’re not thinking critically here – that statement is postmodernism in action, which, yes, makes it… zombie thinking! Read the articles, reflect, and build on the ideas instead of rejecting them outright. Don’t be a zombie 🙂

P.S. #nothingnew is a way out of this trap – it’s deliberately challenging. Brains are for thinking, not food. History isn’t baggage; it’s a toolkit. Use it, or lose it. We’ve lost too much already. Rethinking modernism might just be a way out of this mess.

Dogmatism is the unfortunate outcome of#mainstreaming postmodernism… who would’ve thought?

Q. They imply the opposite – it’s quite paradoxical 😋. Ironic is a better word than paradoxical.

Some Hashtags

The #nothingnew hashtag is a simple #KISS project of rejecting the “common sense” #neoliberalism and #postmodernism of the last 40 years to reboot social change/challenge from the original modernist path to then moving to build #somethingnew

The #geekproblem hashtag is a complex view of the other hashtags. In this, we need to take the “problem” out of “geek”. The need for CONTROL is a problem of balance in modernism. Mix in #deathcult worshipping and the power of technology over the last 40 years, and you understand the “problem”. This is not #KISS

The #deathcult hashtag is a #KISS direct metaphor for #neoliberalism which has been the “common sense” of the last 40 years of #mainstreaming

For an example of this, look at the use of “markets” at cop27 we are truly in a nasty mess due to our years of blind worship.

An activist history of the web

The “better” #closedweb (ISP intranets) was “surprisingly” destroyed by the “inferer” #openweb, which then exploded in use to spread everywhere. The #mainstreaming thinking then tried and failed to recapture this #4opens project for ten years as it takes up global space, and was a real challenge change, that the “common sense” said should not exist. This working alternative was finally sold out by our own #fahernistas, who bribed with money and statues members of the “unthinking” #geekproblem to build the #dotcons that rapidly took over the #openweb space.

Our wider activist #fashernistas created “liberal stories” about how embracing the #dotcons was a good path. The wider #fahernistas flocked to these #closedweb spaces to grasp at the real early power they provided, after society had finished this shift, the bate and switch took this power away, and we were left with “servalence capitalism” and no social power, as was obvuse at the time it was a con.

Our #fashernistats then pissed tech change/challenge agenst the wall for ten years. While the #openweb user facing technology withered, ignored and irrelevant to #mainstreaming. A few years ago we had an “accidental” #openweb reboot with #activitypub and soon after pushing of the next generation of #closedweb projects with #web03 leaving us in the current messy times.

Yes now the #dotcons are roting, but the #openweb is only a small change challenge due to our #fahernistas and #geekproblem actively #BLOCKING the change challenge inherent to the project.

Where are we now and what can we learn from this? Liberalism in tech are often active prats, co-opting, bait and switch and taking the easy #NGO funded path when the choice comes. They are #friendlyenemies, even when they deny this with all their “common sense”. Ideas to mediate this, please?

Do you except that “new” is often #deathcult (neo-liberalism) and #postmodernism because this is “common sense” what is your plan/idea to get around these problems?

I have had 20 years of “new” and am very underwhelmed, actually it’s almost all #blocking or adding to the #techshit to be composed. This is obviously a problem that needs to be mediated, what is your plan/process to have a better outcome?

Remember that the only thing that has worked in the last 10 years has been copying #dotcons with #activertypub every themselves has failed, what can we learn from this?

This is an important question that the #OMN project mediates.

Technology and Social Change Working with the Facebook Generation

This generation is a complete mess, no surprise after 20 years of submission to the #deathcult:

#Neoliberalism hollowing out economies, replacing solidarity with consumerism.

#Postmodernism fragmenting identity politics into a battlefield of individualism over collective action.
#Dotcons centralizing control, turning the internet into a corporate surveillance machine.

Stepping away from the mess, the real question is: How do we break free?

Our #fashernistas still dodge this conversation, stuck in cycles of performative activism, corporate co-option, and distraction. Instead of chasing the next trendy tech or ideological bandwagon, we need to refocus a #KISS path:

#OMN (Open Media Network) – Building grassroots, independent media outside corporate control.
#4opens – Prioritizing transparency, collaboration, and openness in our tools and governance.
Reclaiming #DIY activism – Moving beyond digital spectacle to real-world action and organizing.

The path isn’t more #geekproblem tech fixes or empty branding exercises, it’s a radical grassroots step to collective agency. Time to move.