The Industrial Revolution is considered a watershed moment in human social evolution. We’re living another…

The Industrial Revolution is considered a watershed moment in human social evolution. We’re living another one right now, of even greater scope. Hidden from view by the septic drivel of social media. Energy is a social thing, not just technological. /1 https://t.co/IdnOeGUY2Q

The enabler of the tyranny of ‘the economy’ and economic politics more generally is energy. Fossil fuel energy. Concentrated in only a relative handful of locations worldwide, and giving those locations enormous leverage over the rest of the world. /2

That extreme inequality of energy distribution *is* the power and wealth inequality we often speak about. Not only does it concentrate power in a tiny few hands, the energy itself drives the delocalisation of the entire globe. The massive network of transportation. /3

Which decouples people from the land that has been their historical ‘sovereignty’. Now you ‘go to where the jobs are’, and these transport networks allow the pillaging of every type of resource, including people, to feed great centres of accumulation. /4

And we know how much of the mis- and disinformation in circulation is funded ultimately by the holders of these energy resources. This is why the revolution underway with things like renewables is about much more than just changing some technologies. /5

Households, particularly in Australia, are taking some power (literally) back. Rooftop solar is a tsunami disrupting all of the old fossil fuel networks of power. Many, including me, now can to exercise significant resistance to 250+ years of fossil fuel interests. /6

Our houses are able to generate most of the energy they use themselves, and that’s now extending to vehicles too, the greatest users of household energy and the greatest enslavers of ordinary people. The social implications of this shift are only just beginning to be seen. /7

Every projection for this shift significantly under-estimates the magnitude of the tsunami. Governments have been advised by people who understand it to ‘go households’. They’re very slow to do that, because of entrenched relationships with fossil fuel suppliers. /8

The tsunami is ignoring them ignoring the tsunami, and continues to disrupt at breathtaking speed. This is an industrial revolution unlike the famous one, it’s being driven heavily by ordinary people. What a time this is to be alive, as the world transitions…/9

…to being powered mostly by wind and sunshine. The magnitude of that shift again being hidden by these idiot platforms, like the Wormtongues of social life, filling peoples’ heads with brain-deadening slogans. The shift is happening regardless. Nothing is more exciting. /10 https://t.co/yu5b7rYreC

And it’s returning ‘the economy’ to its origins. Households. It’s in the etymology of the word. Economic politics likes to place business at the centre of social life. That’s insane. Business ceases to exist without customers. It provides them with goods and services. /11

Owners of businesses spout hilarious nonsense about how business creates jobs, and makes life possible for ordinary people. It’s completely backwards. Dissolve all businesses today but cash-up the public, and new ones would emerge at speed. /12

But do as the economy says, strip wealth away from ordinary people to protect business, and the whole lot collapses in a ridiculous and unavoidable heap. That’s the ‘cost of living crisis’. Solar in particular gives ordinary people a way at last to reverse this stupidity. /end