Independent funders with actual power, if you are not very worried yet you should be. Luckily there are some equally brilliant genius you could invest boldly in, that are using their insight for good, they don’t fit your boxes though. PLEASE. https://twitter.com/ImmyKaur/status/1212814258532163591

Get £100 million into @DarkMatter_Labs, @projectsbyif, @ODILeeds, Open Systems Lab ... & more quickly.

Get another £100 million quickly into the @FutureGov’s, @KateRaworth’s, @rufflemuffin’s those we know will double down for good & have the skills.

As @AlastairParvin always says, you’ve got to put them out of business, get £100 million to him quickly too.

Give @indy_johar, @AlastairParvin, @Adewunmi, @FINOkoye, @KateRaworth, @dominiccampbell, @sarahtgold, @rufflemuffin, @anabjain, @DerekABard, @khankfarza £100 million collectively, & £10 million individually in 2020, dying billionaires hand it over, they’ll put up a good fight.

I know you think I’m mad & flippant. But, you get the point.

When you tell a lot of the real futurists & cognitively diverse leaders that you don’t understand their work, can’t find genius & alienate it on the ‘left’, you just make this easier for those capitalising on it, & harder to put up alternatives.

It’s not that all the other on the ground participatory community work doesn’t matter, it’s just that there’s only a small talent pool who understand this world, this fight & they know the talent required to design alternatives, but ain’t no one going to fund that, not really.