Observations on the human condition
One of the most important videos anyone can watch This video needs little qualification other than this: Who is your family? Everyone. That is the reality of human existence. This resonates so powerfully with me that I have no desire to analyse or critique it. It is imperfect precisely because it is using contemporary money … Read more
I was invited to talk about the context of expanding conflict, on Saturday 22 August 2026, as part of a three hour global conference organised by Moeen of Global Vision 2000. I start around 21 minutes into the following video, after Moeen’s introduction, and talk for about 15 minutes. The full video provides different perspectives … Read more
I’m often asked, at short notice, to be interviewed for Press TV on a range of topics and events. In those interviews, I try to provide global context — something seldom offered by media outlets incentivised to focus on the minutiae of the drama rather than on what drives those with power and wealth to … Read more
A colleague from the WiseValue group, Tim, has been part of our weekly conversations exploring what a post-money coordination system would need to do — not just what it would need to displace. What follows is his own working-through of that ground, in his own voice: starting from foundational principles of voluntary participation and non-compulsory … Read more
Last week I spent 24 hours around Hemel Hempstead. Waiting for the World to Catch Up (video 1hour, 34minutes and 44seconds)Living in our power — in spite of the system we must still, from time to time, treat with A talk by Clive Menzies · 8 July 2026 in Kings Langley I was invited by … Read more
AI, Matching and the Propagation of Knowledge Tim, an active participant in our weekly WiseValue discussions, produced this article which offers his unique perspective on the transition from money as the basis of organisation to direct value handling: Recent discussions about AI, Direct Autonomous Cooperative Social Organizations (DACSOs), and post-money systems suggest that we may … Read more
Two ways of standing before the machine, and why they no longer meet Two pieces landed together this week, arriving from opposite ends of the map. One traced £5 billion of drone spending back to the familiar question of who owns the systems and who becomes dependent on them. The other traced the same data … Read more
Hundreds of millions are already participating in a new economy I posted my article in the Light in May this year, promising a follow-up article on how we handle value at scale is changing. To read this second article, click here – see page 2 There is a third article, awaiting publication, which explains how … Read more
Quantum Physics, Institutional Mystification, and the Reality Beneath the Equations Also available on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@Outersite.org:7/Quantum-Physics%EF%BC%9A-Disentangling-Fantasy-from-Reality-%EF%BD%9C-A-Critique-by-Steven-A.-Young-PhD–YoP_KAOTCo4-:1 There is a moment in every system of thought when a useful tool becomes a doctrine. The map, which was drawn to help us navigate, is declared to be the territory. From that point, questioning the map is no longer … Read more
For those who feel the transition is still somewhere ahead, it may be closer than it appears Something is becoming visible that the dominant narrative has no language for. Not a protest, not a movement, not a political programme. Something quieter and more durable: a parallel way of organising life that has been growing, largely … Read more
A Short Story The farm smell was the first thing — not bad, just animal and green and older than anywhere Isla had lived, which was quite a few places. Mum had said it would be different. Mum always said that. They’d arrived after dark, which meant Isla had seen nothing properly — just shapes, … Read more