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TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It
THIS IS THE JOURNAL of Andrew MacDonald
- Mistake Expert, Fool
- Aspiring Master of Possibility
- 60ish human living through TEOTWAWKI, the End Of The World As We Know It*
*The End because peak oil and climate change and much more are making a sure end to what we used to know for sure.
This is my journal, regular observations and outbursts from ground zero, stories of stories about the times.
I’m involved with wonderful “relocalization” efforts elsewhere. I want to speak more about the personal and foolish side, partly because The End Of The World As We Know It does get kinda personal.
And it’s paradoxical and foolish counter-intuitive too. Mere reason can retreat jibbering before it. The staggering complexity of what’s involved is a feature.
But also because there’s a foolish delirium that the whole enterprise suggests that feels like part of what’s good about it. Each time I muffle that message and get too serious, I feel short-changed, and on good days I really like change.
What’s here? Denial, grief, fear, seizing opportunity, love, meditation, new friendships, living out of possibility, the unknown, encounters with personal demons and angels, and more.
Welcome! Fools love company!
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Hi, I am from Big Rapids, Michigan and am currently part of a leadership development group. We are currently using Peter Blocks Community book as a study guide. Our assignment this week was to go out and find some one outside of Mr. Blocks core people and see how the small group concept was working. I found your blog and now I am hoping that you can give me some feedback on the real world practice. I love your idea on a local skills exchange. I am going to steal it if you dont mind. Thanks for your time and I look forwrd to your response.
I love Block’s book and need my own cop;y . . . my borrowed one was returned, so full disclosure: I haven’t read it all. His ideas about the value of questions and living out of possibility was very inspiring for me, and continues to be. Our local group which looks at the future has met monthly since June. I brought forward questions at all, especially at the first but I had a sense of pushing the river a bit. People had their own pacing and history, so I often felt a bit bossy, or unskilled in leading with questions, even though I have lots of group experience. Many ideas, including the skills exchange came out of it. (Please do use the idea; it’s a regular column in our local paper and is a very very useful connector!)
I’ve largely surrendered to letting the group go where it will lately, knowing that much good will come from it. I do think there’s more elevated personal exploration we can do, and will when the time is right. I’d like to hear your takeaways from your course and how we can use Block’s ideas better.