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Structure Drives Politics, Economics and most Everything Else

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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

Feeling Good about the Future

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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

From Proxy Money to Real-Value Governance

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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

Standing In Our Power

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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

The Proof Was Always There

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Six degrees of separation. The idea that any two people on Earth are connected through no more than six intermediate acquaintances has been around since the 1920s. LinkedIn built a business on it — and Microsoft paid $26 billion to own it. But here is what that number actually means: the network already exists. It … Read more

Relation Precedes State

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A fifth-dimensional love-field model of time, and its consequences for coordination and value Two short documents circulated recently within the WiseValue group that deserve careful attention. They arrived not as finished arguments but as an unfolding inquiry — the kind of genuine question that carries more signal than most polished conclusions. What follows is an … Read more

The Stable Circus and Beyond

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How Tokenised Money-Market Funds Magnify Systemic Risk and Accelerate Extraction at the Top by Alex Nikolov Following on from Alex’s articles, Borrowed Stability and The Forest of the Order, he expands his critique of stablecoins and the measures granting BlackRock extraordinary privilege and power. I.  The Next Act in the Stable Circus In a previous … Read more

The Inversion

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There is something I should say at the outset. I have been using artificial intelligence to help my writing with increasing frequency since starting to explore what it can and can’t do about a year ago. I don’t particularly worry about what people think, but I am aware of the perception risk: that articles assisted … Read more

An Economy Without Money — published in The Light

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My article linked below appears (page 13) in Issue 68 of The Light, a free, independently distributed monthly paper that asks the questions the mainstream won’t. This edition carries sharp structural analysis worth reading alongside it: Rusere Shoniwa traces the managed transition of global capital through the BRICS framework, while Escape Key dissects how the … Read more

BORROWED STABILITY

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Following on from yesterday’s post on The forest of the Order, Alex explains the current noise around Stablecoins ignores the obvious: stablecoins are neither “stable”, nor innovative or revolutionary but merely intensification of the extractive logic of the money paradigm. There is an alternative coordination layer which is both innovative and evolutionary which is what … Read more