I have been reading Re-inventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov along with his talk - the 5 stages of Collapse - a grueling experience. To dig into what he says demands that you surrender many of your long-established truths about daily existence and indeed about humanity. It split me in two - one part was saying - this is great, yes he’s really seeing clearly into the way we are living - the other part was saying - oh, so you mean we’re fucked, really, really fucked.

As I really took this

In his great inaugural speech, he talked about the economy - "Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age."

Which says Yes there are problems now - but doesn't question the overall legitimacy of the Capitalist way of doing things.

Indeed he later said - "Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generat

I recently gave a talk at the amazing Temporary School in Mayfair. It's housed in a traditional Mayfair mansion which hasn't been used for 15 years or so. The silk wallpaper is still there but not the the heating.

The initial idea was to talk about business from a non-traditional viewpoint based on my experience of running a company that wasn't primarily about the money.

Searching for a title, I came up with "Setting up a Post-Capitalist Enterprise - Unlearning Capitalism". And spent th