Stars Aligning: The Natural Emergence of a Relocalised Society
For most of human history, you knew where your bread came from. You knew the baker's name, the farmer who grew the grain, the miller who ground it into flour. Economic life was woven into the fabric of community, visible and tangible in a way that made sense. Then came two centuries of relentless centralisation. Today, electricity flows from coal plants hundreds of miles distant, owned by shareholders you'll never meet. Your food travels fifteen hundred miles from soil to table. The land beneath your feet enriches absentee landlords while your community withers. We've built an economy of strangers, extraction, and distance. But something fundamental is shifting. Three seemingly unrelated forces are converging—distributed renewable energy, land value taxation, and artificial intelligence. Together with principles of community governance discovered by Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, they form the architecture of a different future. A future that undoes centuries of centralisati...