The biggest lie and founding myth of the economy is that mobility = freedom. Whether it’s our obsession with…

The biggest lie and founding myth of the economy is that mobility = freedom. Whether it’s our obsession with roads and cars, or travel, the more mobile we’ve become the less free we are. Another way we don’t understand Covid too. /1 https://t.co/Z0QfU4cK3I

The moment we can go anywhere easily, is the moment every location loses any agency it has. The moment place becomes space. The moment a cultural attachment to land, built up and enriched over generations, becomes just a line on a GPS. Our attachment to land is our freedom. /2

Everything else is spin. The place you will always be most free is in your home. The people who are the least free - refugees - do nothing but travel, to find somewhere to stop moving. To find a home. To become re-attached to land. /3

Work-from-home is a hot topic politically because it challenges the foundation of what we call ‘the economy’. The function of the economy is to separate people and resources from their locations. To create a ‘global market’ of ‘free trade’. /4

Including in people. Where nothing can stand in the way of unfettered movement of people and resources, mobilising them towards large centres owned by a tiny handful of people, who accumulate the wealth this mobilisation creates. It’s the old empire method, with new branding. /5

Wales is changing speed limits. It’s sent the economy crowd into fits of rage. Anything that restricts or slows movement is the enemy. We stopped fighting a pandemic because it restricted the shrine loyal workers for the economy worship at - travel. /6 https://t.co/ucHi82MvfH

We need to flip this. Our greatest and only freedom is the freedom to be attached to some piece of land. To not have to go anywhere. There’s a physical thrill that movement creates, no doubt, but underneath that it strips away any agency we all have, it takes away our homes. /7

In the deepest sense of that word. Not the economy version, ‘real estate’. Our place on the Earth. Ask a refugee how excited travelling makes them. Only those with settled homes can enjoy travelling. Somewhere that is theirs, to return to. Nearly all of our trips, for work…/8

…or pleasure, are circular. Return trips. But let that shift to mobility happen long enough, and even that breaks down. People now live in their cars. Which reveals the true function of all of that movement, of all of those roads. /9 https://t.co/Ybpj7A2HhK

To gradually separate us from our places, our homes, so they can join the other vast accumulative mobilisations, towards that tiny number of centres of accumulation of wealth. As we get close to this idiot referendum, it’s worth remembering this. /10

That its really a battle between two cultures. One of endless displacement and mobilisation - an economy - and one of the sacredness of place. Of land. Between servitude, and freedom. /end