The rag-tag tent cities, cardboard signs, communal kitchens and barter stations of last autumn’s occupy camps didn’t look like the shiny, antiseptic future we’d once been promised, but they were nothing short of the beta version of the next stage of human consciousness. They were a remixed form of democracy that the visionary author Jose Arguelles referred to in his last work as the noo-cracy, “a government of the mind that is unitive and telepathic in nature, intuitively grasped and without ultimate need of external laws, parliaments, or any other of the inhibiting paraphernalia of civilization as we know it today.” This spring the seeds that were planted blossom forth.

The rag-tag tent cities, cardboard signs, communal kitchens and barter stations of last autumn’s occupy camps didn’t look like the shiny, antiseptic future we’d once been promised, but they were nothing short of the beta version of the next stage of human consciousness. They were a remixed form of democracy that the visionary author Jose Arguelles referred to in his last work as the noo-cracy, “a government of the mind that is unitive and telepathic in nature, intuitively grasped and without ultimate need of external laws, parliaments, or any other of the inhibiting paraphernalia of civilization as we know it today.”

This spring the seeds that were planted blossom forth.

The Yes Men’s campaign to “Become BFF’s with a Banker” is protest art activism on a one-to-one scale.  The revolutionaries advocate creatively pranking the executive 1 percenters, and while I agree that a good joke and a stubborn presence will get their attention (especially if that presence is camped outside their front door) I advocate that it’s immediately followed up with something with a bit more kick—perhaps like unconditional love. Let’s make them gifts and leave them in front of the gates around their houses or with the concierge at the base of their pyramid penthouses.  Let’s send them loving, encouraging emails (the Yes Lab page includes a handy contact list of bankers and CEO’s for you to contact) asking them to tell us about their dreams and desires, in addition to letting them know what our lives are like, and the reasons why we wish better things for life on this planet. We can let them know there will be someone there for them when they come over to the other side. We can promise to hold them close while they shed the layers they no longer need. Inspired in part by The Love Artist

The Yes Men’s campaign to “Become BFF’s with a Banker” is protest art activism on a one-to-one scale.  The revolutionaries advocate creatively pranking the executive 1 percenters, and while I agree that a good joke and a stubborn presence will get their attention (especially if that presence is camped outside their front door) I advocate that it’s immediately followed up with something with a bit more kick—perhaps like unconditional love. Let’s make them gifts and leave them in front of the gates around their houses or with the concierge at the base of their pyramid penthouses.  Let’s send them loving, encouraging emails (the Yes Lab page includes a handy contact list of bankers and CEO’s for you to contact) asking them to tell us about their dreams and desires, in addition to letting them know what our lives are like, and the reasons why we wish better things for life on this planet.

We can let them know there will be someone there for them when they come over to the other side.

We can promise to hold them close while they shed the layers they no longer need.

Inspired in part by The Love Artist

I believe in nonviolent disruption as one of the most effective ways of waking people up. Waking up is the equivalent of disconnecting from the Matrix.  It usually happens in fits and starts, in a process that can be drawn out over years, or even lifetimes.  But eventually you take the plunge and become born again into a world of pure potentiality.  Everything becomes very flat and clear—like you’re standing in a desert.Abundance, Beauty, Peace.  It feels so good to believe a new story about yourself. 

I believe in nonviolent disruption as one of the most effective ways of waking people up. Waking up is the equivalent of disconnecting from the Matrix.  It usually happens in fits and starts, in a process that can be drawn out over years, or even lifetimes.  But eventually you take the plunge and become born again into a world of pure potentiality.  Everything becomes very flat and clear—like you’re standing in a desert.

Abundance, Beauty, Peace.  It feels so good to believe a new story about yourself.