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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I like it. I am a private person who has always shuddered at the idea of putting my head above the parapet, but thinking about it, I realize each of us can exercise leadership in our personal interactions with our fellow human beings. It is easy to do this, and it costs nothing. Simply treat everyone we encounter with dignity, kindness, generosity, and love. Joy is infectious. Building relationships thusly builds trust, and building trust builds community. You are right on the money that hard times are ahead, but we will survive by working creatively together. We nobodys are smarter and more generous than the morons currently in charge. I'm with you that education is crucial; this love of learning is deep within my genetic endowment, generations deep. Attaining optimal health is crucial, too. It is mostly a matter of doing the opposite of what the government says. Building soil health is essential, too. In the 32 years we've resided on this little plot of land, soil organisms have built 2-3 inches of topsoil by my speeding up the process of soil building by giving them nutrients in the form of recyclable plant material. Plants, especially the trees, bring minerals up from deep in the soil. The leaves, when they fall, make those minerals available to the feeder roots, assisted by the fungal symbionts.

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

First of all Mathew, you are a somebody and I have read your substacks for a while now, so I can say that with certainty. Secondly, your idea of gathering people who think alike, who question the narrative, who have leadership skills is a brilliant idea. I live in the UK and would love to have access to such a group. There are many controversial topics on the table these days, in the UK including 15 minute cities, CBDC, strikes by teachers, border patrol, postal workers, train staff, civil servants, nurses, paramedics/ambulance staff. The government is stoically ignoring all the strikers, as if they did not exist. We know of two in top gov’t jobs are WEF puppets. The concerns are growing, and yet, I only have substack and twitter and other social media outlets to interact with like minded people. I did attend the Better Way Conference in Bath, England last year. It was a tonic. Finally, I admire what you are doing and please know you are a somebody💕

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Thank you for taking a leap of faith with me Mathew, I know hosting and meeting so many strangers in person was WAY out of your comfort zone and I appreciate that you pushed past your discomfort and did it anyway. Delighted to be part of this journey.

For those of you who want to tune in live tomorrow or join the live-audio conversation, please download a copy of Clubhouse (or revive your dormant Clubhouse account) and come say hello. If you're on Twitter, please retweet/quote-tweet the above announcement and help us reach a larger audience.

We appreciate all the folks who came on out to Austin for the dinner, and are bummed to miss those who nearly made it to our evening of thought-criminal conversations at Fogo de Chao. We will host more of these soon, and we'd be honored to see you at the next one.

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Nailed it... I had a dream about my friend who I told about your dinner. I have to be more pro-active about getting you guys to meet. :) Sending a message soon (email).

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Feb 5, 2023·edited Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

The idea that you're "just another nobody" is really pretty funny because it's so not true. You are obviously one-of-a-kind, and in a good way.

You might be the perfect person to be one of the leaders of nobody's leadership network, where everyone is a leader.

It's worth a try! Nothing else seems to work.

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Rev. 11:15 says Man's governments will become God's governments. It doesn't say we commoners can't help make that happen.

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I really, really like the sound of this. I think, to some degree, this is starting to happen everywhere. People are starting to wrest back their sovereignty in all sorts of ways, big and small. We are learning to look for the leaders in our midst. Even the small acts inspire those who have been touched by the hopelessness. Good luck with your endeavour, from down here at the tip of Africa.

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Thank you Matthew. This looks good.

Check this out, re: Distributed Networks:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deschmitt/episodes/2021-01-16T18_45_12-08_00

I am confident that you will do a fantastic job.

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The Catholic church has a principle something like what you are describing. It's called subsidiarity. It means that all issues should be managed at the lowest level of society possible. So, the vast majority of issues should be dealt with in the family. Then, only if that is inadequate do you move to the local community (i.e. the neighborhood), then to the town or city, then the state, and then, only if there is no other way, the national government. It's the model we used to follow in the US, in fact our government was set up to act this way, until we let the federal government usurp so much power, even reaching into the family to override the authority of parents (think our current education system, run by the Department of Education out of Washington, and the schools role in changing the gender of kids without their parents knowledge.) If we are to survive the "reset" we have to go back to this earlier model. The problem is, most people no longer have intact families, nor do many even know who their neighbors are. There has been a many generations long effort to destroy these very basic building blocks of society, and it's been very effective. I'm lucky enough to live where a very intentional community has already formed, and where a home-schooling co-op and other community groups already exist. We are making plans. Everyone needs this.

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I had filed the following away in file called: Leaders

Reading what you wrote reminded me of it:

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Grand Theft World 072 | Special Guest Matthew Ehret

https://youtu.be/EpQ1NC7uIQs

Why Richard Grove's Autonomy Course Stands Out

Matthew Ehret - Aug 26

https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/why-richard-groves-autonomy-course

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It seems that Richard Grove would be a good facilitator for finding / empowering some functional leaders?

Whistleblower Richard Grove: Creator of “Autonomy”

No Lies Radio Live Streaming Published March 12, 2022

https://rumble.com/vx796o-whistleblower-richard-grove-creator-of-autonomy.html

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I am a builder and would like to attend the conference in Miami.

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Matthew, Looks like a great idea -- and what is the downside? I would join but will be flying at that time. But fingers crossed that there will be more such events/

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Ok Mathew, this inspires me enough to upgrade to paid status. HOPE is such a wonderful thing!

I am a retired system architect and would like to bring my architecture skills to this table. Not many people have heard of this specialty as it is only about 20 years old although the Air Force started the initial concept in the 1980's (and no, it is not specific to defense). I'll do may best to tune in this afternoon

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If those at the conference could come up with some material about how we got here and maybe something about possible solutions, then some intrepid volunteers could book conference rooms at local libraries, advertise, however possible, workshops, and lead them. Any controversy attracted would be free advertising.

imo:

non-violence should be stressed

nothing done in secret

strategies for dealing with provocateurs should be prepared

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OK, fuck it. I was going to start on my own with a local group first, but if I can get the clubhouse app to send me the SMS required for installation, I'll maybe join in. So far 4 tries, no luck.

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Feb 5, 2023·edited Feb 5, 2023

The way everyone can become a distributed leader is simply taking responsibility in your local space as the opportunity presents itself, that is, to step up when action is helpful or required. That depends on proper parenting which I've noticed Europeans and the Japanese do much better than Canadians, Chinese, and Americans, who hang back and wait to be told what to do. These latter seem afraid to take the risk of executive decision-making. I speculate this may be because the Kardashians have replaced John Wayne.

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