Writings from Phycomycism

Ideas from the network.

Phycomycism is the mythology. These writings are where the mythology gets used as a lens for looking at the world, society, economics, technology, culture, and the strange stories humans tell ourselves about being separate from everything else.

A restored coastal city where human and living systems coexist in renewed balance
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Phycomycism | The Pursuit of Better Problems

Phycomycism doesn’t promise a perfect world. It asks us to stop using the impossibility of utopia as an excuse for accepting unnecessary suffering, and instead work toward a world with better problems—less harm, more dignity, and tradeoffs actually worth having.

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Gardeners of Balance — early human gardeners cultivating food while giant mushrooms supervise

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The Myth of Separation

We call nature something we visit, send consequences “away,” and treat people far from us as though they inhabit a different world. Phycomycism argues that all three ideas come from the same mistake.

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