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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: Currents 049: Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder on Doomer Optimism
Description: Jim talks with Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder about the growing movement of Doomer Optimism...
Jim talks with Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder about the growing movement of Doomer Optimism. They discuss Ashley's coinage of the term, doomer optimism as an open-source structure of feeling, avoiding pathologies of despair & naive optimism, balancing philosophy with action, cosmopolitan localism, healthy skepticism, theory-of-change pluralism, building local capacity toward the meso-scale, the social power of skill-building, Tucker Max's surprise embrace of the movement & what to do when movements take unexpected turns, doomer optimism's mainstream potential, recentering the hard-won knowledge of longtime homesteaders & builders, and much more.
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