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Short answer: everywhere. Honest answer: the ideas are still a blip in the daily discourse. We need to be honest with ourselves. The discourse around how to organize lives is dominated by the current capitalist operating system and supported by a hard-wired power structure. If you try to start speaking about After Capitalism to power, you will get ignored or eye rolls.
With that motivational speech (haha) ,,, Seriously, I believe strongly in Jim Collin’s observation in Good to Great that we must “confront the brutal facts.” That said, there is good news. The images and the evidence and ideas for them that I gathered over the last decade-plus did in fact come from a wide range of sources. In the book, I focus on those that were more developed, typically in book form. I went through more than a hundred books, and focused upon 27 that had significant ideas for After Capitalism and analyzed them using an “Image Analysis Template” that I crafted for this work. The book also had 454 references. I didn’t make this up.
My horizon scanning library collecting signals of change for After Capitalism is up to 970 hits or entries. That’s a lot, but numbers really aren’t the story.
What are some of the themes? Young people are looking at their parents and the society and not liking what they see. Sure, that’s always true to some extent, but there is a very specific disenchantment with capitalism. It has not yet come together into any sort of ethos or movement, it is potential energy not kinetic energy, that is, it’s not mobilized yet.
I look back at pandemic era as providing some very telling evidence of where the mainstream is. It gave us time to stop and really think about what we were doing – and the answer was that we were not very happy about it (see Great Resignation) Life resumed and people went back to work and back to the grind. But they aren’t happy about it.
What might be most interesting are the weaker signals toward opting-out, checking out, walking away, or off-the-grid.” I want to cover this in more detail later as well. For now, these are still small-scale activities and most of life is still within the system. It is extremely difficult to disengage. Any movement not comply comes with a great cost and the vicious cycle is that we’re over-worked and exhausted to the point that making the effort to disengage doesn’t seem worth the trouble. One recent example is more and more places refusing to take cash. The “for your safety’ rationale is nauseating. It’s convenience and profit, period, and we all know it. And our digital footprints get tracked more and more. I put the timeframe fro After Capitalism at 20-30 years for a reason – it aint’ gonna be easy. – Andy Hines
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