The Other Others

Big mixed up yarn with Steph Beck and Ben Knight, Indigenous views on relational economics and logical fallacies, and where the two meet in cults and guru-generated content. How can we tell the difference between good faith and bad faith claims, and who has the right to be heard in this world? (Spoiler: we arrive at the idea that maybe bad faith discourse comes from people who have figured out they can skip meaning-making and go straight to change-making/decision-making by extracting authority from nothing, using logical fallacies as discursive technologies of despair...) Episode art by David McMillan

In this episode, Pete McCurley, a Gumbayngiir wood carver and reluctant blacksmith, discusses topics such as coping with grief through art, the impact of a devastating storm on cultural food plants, personal development and leaving a lasting impact, challenges in forging a keel bolt, the importance of community support, and transformation of wrong stories into cautionary tales.

Groovy de-colonial yarn with exo-ethno-botanist Cobi Calyx. Everything from Terra Nullius to Matt Damon.

You're in a proper yarn here, involving you, me, Beckett Carmody, a giant frog, wild cats and a robot. Beckett is finding adaptive Lore to bring cats and weeds into proper relation with place. There may even be room for AI fetuses like language model bots if somebody can tinker with the decision trees a bit. Best yarn ever if you want to learn about proper time, place, story and relation.

Yolande Brown and me are doing voice-work and writing for an animated film, and decided to yarn for a vocal warm-up before studio time. Recorded it just in case we said anything worth sharing. For me it's back-catalogue content, so skip my bits, but Yo says some calming and measured things that are a soothing balm in the world of thinkers and changemakers, that roiling sea of panic and doom and frantic hope.

Carol Sanford drops some pearls for me, you and the world, and offers teasers for her upcoming book, No More Gold Stars. Warning: Suicide and libertarianism themes.

Deconstructing something I wrote in an altered state, which I don't remember writing, and wondering about the benefits and dangers of altered states. Sure, there are moments of genius that have utility, but you should never make decisions from that state, because you have no discernment. I believe that's why ceremony is secret and separate from daily reality, in our culture. Spiritual and secular realities need boundaries, when it comes to cognition and governance.

Anarchists behaving badly. Apologies to the good regen folks who tried to interview Yin Paradies and myself while we belligerently wrecked the joint. Decided to upload it because failures are instructive, and we're in the business of growing knowledge, not followers. Worst parts edited out (incitement, stuff like that). Another way to look at it is that we could kick down the fences settlers build around us, in interviews, debate, real estate, governance - all of it. We just wake up every day and decide not to, for some reason. So, sorry, but also RAAAAGH!

Explore ancient knowledge systems, indigenous governance, and regenerative solutions in a discussion on global complexity. Reflect on Buckminster Fuller's legacy and visionary ideas on renewable energy and AI challenges. Dive into the intersection of cultural narratives and violence for regenerative processes.

Zina Saro Wiwa from the Niger Delta is remarkable. An intensely personal piece of a series of yarns we've been having, about loss, continuity, masks, gin, ceremony, mental illness and diasporic indigeneity, mapping the journeys of us and the sentient objects we make.