commit 6eefbc6973130e42277a2f15e4a97a4515f10389
parent 948bd803c9ab5a3bf6537800fc729548b0e30848
Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:19:43 +0100
templates for brewing collectives
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diff --git a/add_the_starter.mdwn b/add_the_starter.mdwn
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+Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and
+keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are
+(animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what
+they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people
+aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them,
+and I think most of my readers are too.
+
+Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
+
+But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and
+specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive
+exploitation both of natural and human resources.
+
+This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
+synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
+meaningful sense.
+
+We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
+expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
+computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
+were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
+aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
+as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
+glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+
+
+
diff --git a/brew_the_base.mdwn b/brew_the_base.mdwn
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+Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and
+keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are
+(animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what
+they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people
+aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them,
+and I think most of my readers are too.
+
+Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
+
+But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and
+specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive
+exploitation both of natural and human resources.
+
+This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
+synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
+meaningful sense.
+
+We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
+expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
+computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
+were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
+aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
+as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
+glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+
+
+
diff --git a/brewing_collectives.mdwn b/brewing_collectives.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and
+keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are
+(animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what
+they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people
+aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them,
+and I think most of my readers are too.
+
+Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
+
+But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and
+specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive
+exploitation both of natural and human resources.
+
+This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
+synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
+meaningful sense.
+
+We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
+expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
+computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
+were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
+aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
+as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
+glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+
+
+* [[brew the base]]: stories about how groups started
+* [[add the starter]]: early organizing & infrastructure
+* [[let it ferment]]: governance, challenges, and ongoing culture
+* [[pour and share]]: reflections, advice, and spreading practices.
+
+
diff --git a/let_it_ferment.mdwn b/let_it_ferment.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and
+keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are
+(animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what
+they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people
+aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them,
+and I think most of my readers are too.
+
+Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
+
+But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and
+specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive
+exploitation both of natural and human resources.
+
+This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
+synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
+meaningful sense.
+
+We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
+expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
+computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
+were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
+aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
+as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
+glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+
+
+
diff --git a/pour_and_share.mdwn b/pour_and_share.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and
+keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are
+(animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what
+they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people
+aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them,
+and I think most of my readers are too.
+
+Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
+
+But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and
+specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive
+exploitation both of natural and human resources.
+
+This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
+synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
+meaningful sense.
+
+We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
+expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
+computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
+were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
+aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
+as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
+glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+
+
+
