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Syntropic World

By Christine McDougall

Syntropic World is building an economy that serves people and nature.

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Beauty of Beginnings - May 20th - When we make one side the holy grail

When we make one side the holy grail Maintain order – invite chaos and creativity Provide security – allow rebellion Develop – break down Progress – decay Grow – shrink Measure – be in awe of the immeasurable Profit – give away first Surplus – break even Percentage profit – precessional effect from great work Driving business – allowing life When we make one side the holy grail, everyone suffers in the end. Unity is plural, at minimum two. Photo Taken May 20th 2024 If this Beauty of...

about 8 hours ago • 1 min read

Unification through division The Common Language of a Syntropic World Justice for all, applied without bias. Multiculturalism and the wealth it brings everyone. Taking care of the most vulnerable, including our Earth and her creatures. Access to quality education, health, child and age care. Work that uplifts making things that serve a future for all. Considering the long term in all planning. Food that nourishes without killing our home planet and her gorgeous ecology. Low-cost renewable...

1 day ago • 1 min read

Great art is provocation There is a furore over a portrait of Australia’s richest woman, Gina Reinhardt, in the National Gallery of Australia, one of many images of the power brokers of the global stage painted by Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira. Apparently, Gina doesn’t like the painting and would like it removed. The artist has asked people to consider why he paints pictures of the people he paints. It is a question worth pondering. Meanwhile, Swimming Australia, sponsored by the...

2 days ago • 1 min read

Hot coals Navigating a relationship of sensitivities like racism and white privilege is tricky, particularly in the in-between time when a white person is invested in understanding their privilege and systemic racism. It is understandable, given that people of colour have had to suffer the discarding of their being for generations. It is worth remembering that both parties often lack the skills to bridge this divide. The pain and trauma of generations of directed hate at your being...

3 days ago • 1 min read

self-discipline My rightness erases you and your rightness I like being right. I was the kid who raised their hand to answer questions in the classroom because I knew the answer. I consider ‘being right’ and my need and like to ‘be right.’ Behind it is something broken. The need to be affirmed. To be seen. When I am ‘right’, there is a tinge of superiority. My ‘better than you’ is subtly present. A little part of me has a smirk of satisfaction. Not always, but often. Being right carries the...

4 days ago • 1 min read

The word for world is forest – Ursula K Le Guin. A forest, infinitely complex. Chaotic yet patterned. Demonstrating cycles, nothing unused. Even death is essential to life. Creatures at every level, from deep in the dark soil to those who cross the skies. Bacteria and mycelia networking, feasting, hibernating, flourishing. When the balance is tipped and a colony becomes monopolistic, nature takes the upper hand, and the balance is restored. Because monopoly is antithetical to life. Something...

5 days ago • 1 min read

Are you strong enough to know you will be weakened by temptation one day? We all need guardians against our temptations. No human is strong enough to resist certain temptations, even if we think we are. Oscar Wilde said I can resist anything except temptation. The biblical 40 nights in the desert—a place of emptiness, isolation, heat, little to no water, protection, animals, and apparent life—is another metaphor for the challenges of temptation. At our weakest, we succumb. The Ulysses pact is...

6 days ago • 2 min read

True rebellion is collective I went to see the movie Star Wars – the Empire Strikes Back – when I was at University in Melbourne, Australia. I was still a teenager. It was a 10 PM session. I was captivated. Completely. Lost for two hours in a world of fiction expressing reality. I fell in love with Yoda. Yoda is still my most favourite movie character. Small like me, yet significant. I hoped and hope for significance to this day. I consider this time, decades later. I suspect we are the...

7 days ago • 2 min read

Balming with love Working for, working with, working against. People, life, humanity. Designing systems that work for and with, never against. Being used or being useful. Knowing the difference. Refusing to use, or be used. Occupying the story of the victim, or finding our voice for justice for all despite everything handed to us. Pointing the finger at the other. Refusing to see the other in us. The hypocrisy of this. Focusing instead on asking where what we rail against lies within us and...

8 days ago • 1 min read

I know integrity when I see it Because it comes without fanfare, drama, posturing, demand, or tantrums. Integrity is to hold shape. To be fully aligned, from deep in our marrow through our heart and head, no need for false or fake projections. A tree is integrity A bird is integrity. A baby is is integrity. Yet we humans are a mess of cultural, familial, and social fabrications, as if infected by some strange disease. To unhook the contagion, to remove everything that is not us, is a life...

9 days ago • 1 min read
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