Fireside Chat: Broke, Busy and Alone: The Crisis of Social Reproduction

WHO: This online event is for people who want to learn about our society’s crisis of social reproduction and what Wildseed’s response is.

WHAT: This is the third of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this third session we will discuss the how late stage capitalism leaves us underpaid, overworked and isolated. We will then discuss how things like the virtual village and Ecology Studio attempts to address this crisis/

WHY:

We believe that the central cause of our poly crises is that we have a contradiction between our overemphasis of building wealth as a society and our social, emotional and spiritual underdevelopment. This contradiction gives rise to three crises: belonging, social reproduction and unacknowledged history. The crisis of social reproduction is based in our endless pursuit of the false gods of productivity, accumulation and individualism. Yet a more human world is possible, one based of rest, care and communal luxury.

SPEAKERS:

TBD

WILDSEED SOCIETY

The WildSeed Society is a political, spiritual and economic community that is inviting people to build a 21st century Underground Railroad together. We are building a series of refuges from the current exploitative world to new worlds where we all get to belong and be cared for - by focusing on Spiritual Liberation, Social Transformation and Economic Revolution. We seek to experiment and prototype our way into a new way of life - in community and in right relationship with the land.

The WildSeed Society is stewarded by a collective of movement veterans, spiritual teachers, and organizational development nerds. Many of the instigators of the collective were involved in the Black Lives Matter movement before starting WildSeed. It is inspired by the vision of futurist Octavia Butler of gifted misfits finding community together before transforming the world.

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