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dissent v acquiescence


If, as they say, you're not angry, you're not paying attention.

Seems to be a more and more reasonable thing to say right now. Because unless we maintain our sense of outrage, testing though that might be, we end up sliding into the sludge of acquiescence.

Here are some people who are absolutely dissenting. Cognitive Dissidents.
(possibly the polar opposite of cognitive dissonance...).

​Time to be inspired. 

First up: Greta.



And then a veritable smorgasbord of delicious dissidence ... have a browse.
Fireworks for the mind...

Kevin Anderson: Proper, dissenting, arsey, northern professor bloke daring to say the unsayable. If you listen to anyone on climate, listen to him. Really.
Noami Oreskes. One of the best cognitive dissidents on climate, along with Kevin Anderson and Eric Conway. You can see more in the fantastic Merchants of Doubt: click here...
Kate Raworth. Baddass economist. Her recent book, "Doughnut Economics", has actually been banned in some universities. For gawd's sake...
The Futurenauts: Ed Gillespie (old Cafe Dis mate) and Mark Stevenson. If you haven't caught their podcast with Jon Richardson: this is critical listening. No apologies.
Rebecca Solnit: writer, disruptor, creative and divergent thinker. Accidental inventor of the term "mansplaining" ... need I say more...
Naomi Klein. Big thinker, courageous voice. Author of the book This Changes Everything, now also a film ...More here...
Hannah Arendt. One of the most compelling, incisive voices in political science, feminism, philosophy, totalitarianism and justice in the last century. Check her out.
Anne Pettifor: outspoken dissident economist - author of the Case for the Green New Deal.
Wilkinson and Pickett. Kicking ass on inequality and how we're actually creating it ... inside and out. Authors of the Spirit Level and the Inner Level. Awesome.
Douglas Rushkoff. Taking on Big Tech in the name of Team Human. On the nail.
Tim Jackson: has been saying very sensible stuff for bloody years. Author of the splendid Prosperity Without Growth. You'll see him elsewhere on this site...
Rob Hopkins: Imagination, Imagination and Imagination. :)
Jem Bendell. Wrote the very recent Deep Adaptation Occasional Paper. Says in it he knows he might be destroying his own career. Sorta has to be read. Probably with a stiff drink.
Eric Holthaus. Named his grief. Brave dude.
Jeremy Heimans: The New Power.
Ken Robinson: breaker of icons, shaker of minds - education, and everthing it involved. Click here for his fab RSAnimate...
Steve Keen: eco-nomics rethinker. Check out his ideas ...
Joseph Stiglitz: author of the Price of Inequality


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  • hello
  • The psycho-sociology of change
    • the importance of transgression
    • society: disrupted
    • environment: disrupted >
      • climate: disrupted >
        • CORNWALL VCSE CLIMATE RESPONSE
      • climate emergency declarers
      • climate truths and myths
    • thought: disrupted >
      • disruptive words
      • events calendar
      • the art and science of critical thinking
      • only bloody connect: why it's so dfficult to communicate the most crucial stuff on the planet
      • the art of change
      • cognitive dissidents
      • disruptive reads
    • economics: disrupted >
      • economics: disrupted - atlas of pro-sperity
    • gallery of disruption >
      • contact us
      • andy
      • chris h
      • faraday
      • jeremy
      • joey
      • pat
      • louis
      • manda
      • stephen
      • oliver
      • ruby
      • simon
      • natalia
      • sara
      • chris j
      • lynne
      • luke
      • mod
      • ian
      • rosie
      • matt
  • cafe disruptif gatherings
    • Autumn 2021: Climate and Health Skills Lab event TWO
    • Autumn 2020: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Cornwall Doughnut Collective
    • Autumn 2020: climate and health skills lab event
    • Summer 2019: Climate Catastrophe: Dr Rupert Read
    • Summer 2019: Negotiating the Surrender: Dougald Hine
    • Winter 2018: Polyglot: The Art of Change
    • Autumn 2018: Climate Disrupted : in Good Company
    • Autumn 2018: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Doughnut Hack
    • Summer 2018: Economics disrupted: reclaiming the ground
    • Summer 2018: The Psychology of Change II : Now It's Personal
    • Winter 2017: Launch - The Wet Fish
  • who we are
    • resilient us
  • Blog