Guy James
@guyjames.bsky.social
@guyjames23 on twitter
Writer. https://theelevator.earth | https://guyjames.substack.com
Meditation, psychedelics, IFS, P2P, ReFi, antifragility, love to all beings.
PS I occasionally (re)post in Spanish or Catalan.
Writer. https://theelevator.earth | https://guyjames.substack.com
Meditation, psychedelics, IFS, P2P, ReFi, antifragility, love to all beings.
PS I occasionally (re)post in Spanish or Catalan.
The Big Four banks are raking in the cash - a windfall tax on these profits could bring in £14 billion!💰
Check out the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social video and email your MP to #TaxTheBanks! 👇 bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMPEmail
bsky.app/profile/posi...
Check out the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social video and email your MP to #TaxTheBanks! 👇 bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMPEmail
bsky.app/profile/posi...
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Big Four banks are raking in the cash - a windfall tax on these profits could bring in £14 billion!💰
Check out the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social video and email your MP to #TaxTheBanks! 👇 bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMPEmail
bsky.app/profile/posi...
Check out the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social video and email your MP to #TaxTheBanks! 👇 bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMPEmail
bsky.app/profile/posi...
Dry Up The Supply! We can have our own 'Shock Doctrine for good'.
It's not a Black Swan if you know it's coming...!
On tech bros, currency, and what comes next.
guyjames.substack.com/p/dry-up-the...
It's not a Black Swan if you know it's coming...!
On tech bros, currency, and what comes next.
guyjames.substack.com/p/dry-up-the...
February 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Dry Up The Supply! We can have our own 'Shock Doctrine for good'.
It's not a Black Swan if you know it's coming...!
On tech bros, currency, and what comes next.
guyjames.substack.com/p/dry-up-the...
It's not a Black Swan if you know it's coming...!
On tech bros, currency, and what comes next.
guyjames.substack.com/p/dry-up-the...
The latest post on my personal Substack, part two of the Dark Forces series: Why we can't have nice things, and why I'm obsessed with finding out why we can't. Hint: Moloch.
open.substack.com/pub/guyjames...
open.substack.com/pub/guyjames...
February 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The latest post on my personal Substack, part two of the Dark Forces series: Why we can't have nice things, and why I'm obsessed with finding out why we can't. Hint: Moloch.
open.substack.com/pub/guyjames...
open.substack.com/pub/guyjames...
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Found myself reading Nora Bateson's 'Communication is Sacred' ( beiner.substack.com/p/communicat... ) yesterday, learning about 'schismogenesis' and ultimately the need to tend to relationships.
Worth a full read along with the essay by The Elevator which references it below.
Worth a full read along with the essay by The Elevator which references it below.
![Highlighted excerpts from Nora Bateson essay 'Communication is Sacred' ( https://beiner.substack.com/p/communication-is-sacred-by-nora-bateson )
"The trap of trying to confront fascism is that it grows stronger with polarity, and the problem with not confronting fascism is that it grows stronger when it is not met with resistance."
"The way people, societies, cultures, and any other living systems are described reveals the labels
and other abstractions that serve divisive agendas. How much context has been brought to the
description? How much complexity?
We all know what it feels like to be misunderstood, or categorized in a way that does not hold
our whole selves. When people pick one context of someone’s life as their identifying characteristic, the complexity of the person who is being described is violated"
"The word schismogensis means creation of breaking; as a communication pattern, it creates a generator function of communication that breaks communication. The confusion creates confusion, leads people to the next wrong question, and froths up distractions. Where an ecological system generates relationships that make more relationship, schismogenesis escalates relationships that break relationships [...] For Gregory [Bateson], deliberately messing up communication between people is and was a violence that reaches beyond the bounds of war. It is a violence to the sacred act of communication itself"
"How do you think about change if not in linear strategies? You tend to the relationships."
"This is not about making a new script or vocabulary. It is about contextual and transcontextual shifts. Ecologies move in inter-relational ways — Bateson said this 80 years ago, and his father, William Bateson, said it in 1888. Indigenous cultures have been saying this for thousands of years.
Gregory was frustrated at how difficult this idea was to bring into a world of mechanistic habits."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:va3kt2kz3wjddohxhpe3e7ha/bafkreib2lvoqrm5yqxkofgdyytoza6orup6bxwbzw6wp2aoqwuw4brne2m@jpeg)
January 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Found myself reading Nora Bateson's 'Communication is Sacred' ( beiner.substack.com/p/communicat... ) yesterday, learning about 'schismogenesis' and ultimately the need to tend to relationships.
Worth a full read along with the essay by The Elevator which references it below.
Worth a full read along with the essay by The Elevator which references it below.
Reposted by Guy James
Paul Krafel's latest essay, Toward a Commons Culture
is exceptional.
I listened to it three times using 11th reader.
roamingupward.net/toward-a-com...
is exceptional.
I listened to it three times using 11th reader.
roamingupward.net/toward-a-com...
Toward a Commons culture
Table of Contents for the longest ever posting to my blog Toward a Commons culture An Anthem for the Commons Announcing the Third Edition of Shifting/Seeing Nature Snippets: Andromeda Galaxy unit T…
roamingupward.net
December 10, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Paul Krafel's latest essay, Toward a Commons Culture
is exceptional.
I listened to it three times using 11th reader.
roamingupward.net/toward-a-com...
is exceptional.
I listened to it three times using 11th reader.
roamingupward.net/toward-a-com...
Amazing how quickly we turn our heart’s desire into a duty that we have to start procrastinating away from.
two men in a car with one saying " i don 't procrastinate "
ALT: two men in a car with one saying " i don 't procrastinate "
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Amazing how quickly we turn our heart’s desire into a duty that we have to start procrastinating away from.
Human beings: You do realise you can appreciate your own culture, heritage and myth without becoming a fascist or a religious fundamentalist, right?
a man is holding his finger to his chin and thinking while looking up .
ALT: a man is holding his finger to his chin and thinking while looking up .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Human beings: You do realise you can appreciate your own culture, heritage and myth without becoming a fascist or a religious fundamentalist, right?
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“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness
Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness
Alan Watts on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Our Existential Loneliness
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 30, 2024 at 5:47 AM
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness
Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness
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Sure, you can train AI to write like you. But even you shouldn't write like you. You should write like the next version of you who doesn't exist yet. AI can't do that.
November 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Sure, you can train AI to write like you. But even you shouldn't write like you. You should write like the next version of you who doesn't exist yet. AI can't do that.
Was Orwell right? Is the future a boot stamping on a human face forever? Or was he in a bad mood when he wrote that? ;)
Maybe by understanding how authoritarianism is formed within our psyches, we get to create systems which don't allow it to flourish.
wearetheelevator.substack.com/p/issue-26-f...
Maybe by understanding how authoritarianism is formed within our psyches, we get to create systems which don't allow it to flourish.
wearetheelevator.substack.com/p/issue-26-f...
Issue 26: Focus On The Authoritarian Mindset
“The trap of trying to confront fascism is that it grows stronger with polarity, and the problem with not confronting fascism is that it grows stronger when it is not met with resistance”-Nora Bateson
wearetheelevator.substack.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Was Orwell right? Is the future a boot stamping on a human face forever? Or was he in a bad mood when he wrote that? ;)
Maybe by understanding how authoritarianism is formed within our psyches, we get to create systems which don't allow it to flourish.
wearetheelevator.substack.com/p/issue-26-f...
Maybe by understanding how authoritarianism is formed within our psyches, we get to create systems which don't allow it to flourish.
wearetheelevator.substack.com/p/issue-26-f...
Sure, you can train AI to write like you. But even you shouldn't write like you. You should write like the next version of you who doesn't exist yet. AI can't do that.
November 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Sure, you can train AI to write like you. But even you shouldn't write like you. You should write like the next version of you who doesn't exist yet. AI can't do that.
Things only get easy once you resign yourself to the fact that they're always going to be difficult.
November 25, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Things only get easy once you resign yourself to the fact that they're always going to be difficult.
anyone else feel depressed simply by looking at Elon Musk?
November 23, 2024 at 9:15 PM
anyone else feel depressed simply by looking at Elon Musk?
you know how we watch ‘funny animals’ videos? do you think the aliens are watching us like that and pissing themselves with laughter? ‘omg they voted for him again hahahah I can’t believe it’ ‘they’re just ignoring climate change, fuck that’s hilarious, where’s the popcorn?’
November 23, 2024 at 9:14 PM
you know how we watch ‘funny animals’ videos? do you think the aliens are watching us like that and pissing themselves with laughter? ‘omg they voted for him again hahahah I can’t believe it’ ‘they’re just ignoring climate change, fuck that’s hilarious, where’s the popcorn?’
November 19, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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I can be more provocative.
Let’s see….
I think indefinite economic growth is delusional and building a policy platform on it amounts to complicity in collapse.
I think the political spectrum makes no sense and that it’s intellectually lazy to speak of it.
Maybe I am not built to be controversial?
Let’s see….
I think indefinite economic growth is delusional and building a policy platform on it amounts to complicity in collapse.
I think the political spectrum makes no sense and that it’s intellectually lazy to speak of it.
Maybe I am not built to be controversial?
Wondering what Bluesky disagreement feels like so:
I believe in God.
I am in favour of Scottish independence.
I am sympathetic to aspects of the conservative philosophical tradition.
I feel bemused when people ask for my pronouns.
I think most people don’t understand what climate change means.
I believe in God.
I am in favour of Scottish independence.
I am sympathetic to aspects of the conservative philosophical tradition.
I feel bemused when people ask for my pronouns.
I think most people don’t understand what climate change means.
a cartoon of donald duck with the words " do you want to fight lets get it on then "
ALT: a cartoon of donald duck with the words " do you want to fight lets get it on then "
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:18 PM
I can be more provocative.
Let’s see….
I think indefinite economic growth is delusional and building a policy platform on it amounts to complicity in collapse.
I think the political spectrum makes no sense and that it’s intellectually lazy to speak of it.
Maybe I am not built to be controversial?
Let’s see….
I think indefinite economic growth is delusional and building a policy platform on it amounts to complicity in collapse.
I think the political spectrum makes no sense and that it’s intellectually lazy to speak of it.
Maybe I am not built to be controversial?
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¿Quieres una forma sencilla de personalizar tu terminal de Linux Bash / WSL?
1️⃣ Instala tipografía de NerdFonts (ej: Agave Nerd)
2️⃣ `sudo apt install curl unzip fonts-powerline nano -y`
3️⃣ `curl -s ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s`
4️⃣ Añade unas lineas al `~/.bashrc`
¡Listo!
1️⃣ Instala tipografía de NerdFonts (ej: Agave Nerd)
2️⃣ `sudo apt install curl unzip fonts-powerline nano -y`
3️⃣ `curl -s ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s`
4️⃣ Añade unas lineas al `~/.bashrc`
¡Listo!
November 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
¿Quieres una forma sencilla de personalizar tu terminal de Linux Bash / WSL?
1️⃣ Instala tipografía de NerdFonts (ej: Agave Nerd)
2️⃣ `sudo apt install curl unzip fonts-powerline nano -y`
3️⃣ `curl -s ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s`
4️⃣ Añade unas lineas al `~/.bashrc`
¡Listo!
1️⃣ Instala tipografía de NerdFonts (ej: Agave Nerd)
2️⃣ `sudo apt install curl unzip fonts-powerline nano -y`
3️⃣ `curl -s ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s`
4️⃣ Añade unas lineas al `~/.bashrc`
¡Listo!
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I knew I had gotten this from her first; I finally saw the quote on one of my feeds
November 15, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I knew I had gotten this from her first; I finally saw the quote on one of my feeds
Trying to protect ourselves from future pain is the self, the self which we think we are, the sensation of identifying with the tension in the body which comes from ‘steeling ourselves’ against both past trauma and anticipated future re-runs of that same trauma.
#non-duality #nonduality
#non-duality #nonduality
November 17, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Trying to protect ourselves from future pain is the self, the self which we think we are, the sensation of identifying with the tension in the body which comes from ‘steeling ourselves’ against both past trauma and anticipated future re-runs of that same trauma.
#non-duality #nonduality
#non-duality #nonduality
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You can open up credit cards and all sorts of accounts for children, right? Tax credits, ladies? What we think?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...
Is a frozen embryo a ‘child’? Alabama’s Supreme Court thinks so
And what does this mean for the provision of fertility services such as IVF?
www.aljazeera.com
February 21, 2024 at 8:19 PM
You can open up credit cards and all sorts of accounts for children, right? Tax credits, ladies? What we think?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...
Never mind folks, we do still have the ugly Trump-Elon fallout to look forward to, both of them going on Rogan and complaining about the other while he makes sympathetic yet non-commital noises
November 16, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Never mind folks, we do still have the ugly Trump-Elon fallout to look forward to, both of them going on Rogan and complaining about the other while he makes sympathetic yet non-commital noises