The last 40 years of #mainstreaming have been a suffocating descent into #climatechaos, driven by a #deathcult logic that normalised destruction as “common sense.” The worst part? Much of our critical thinking is still shaped by relativism, leaving us floundering in fragmented, individualist gestures instead of collective action.
We’ve failed to build real alternatives. Social, political, and technological landscapes have been co-opted, watered down, and turned into managed dissent. The same people who pushed these failed agendas still set the terms of debate. Time to #KISS: name the mess, challenge it, and compost it.
Open vs Closed is the core struggle. When activism collapses, it’s always because of control. Two paths:
- Open Process: If a project is meant to be open, any attempt to hide dysfunction makes the rot worse. Control breeds secrecy, secrecy breeds poison, and eventually the project becomes entirely closed while still performing “openness.”
- Closed Process: If a project is designed closed, it survives by gatekeeping, silencing dissent, and managing power. “Opening up” such a project without total upheaval is near impossible — the moment light hits the cracks, it explodes.
NGOs & Activists mostly operate in a false-open middle. NGOs run token consultations, while real decisions stay behind closed doors to protect funding and careers. Activist groups often begin open, but as they grow, power consolidates, conflict festers, and they close up. Trust-based affinity groups are one of the few models that resist this slide – but that’s another conversation.
The dogma of open is simple:
- Open projects must stay open, or they rot.
- Closed projects will never meaningfully open without collapse.
- Fake-open NGOs and activism exist to manage dissent, not to create change.
This is the cycle we keep repeating: Open vs Closed. And we don’t have time to keep making the same mistakes. Just remember: the last 40 years of #mainstreaming have been a #deathcult, guiding us into #climatechaos. If we can’t compost this mess, we’ll stay stuck in the rot.
