Martin Kirk
Head of Strategy, /The Rules
Martin Kirk is Co-founder and Director of Strategy for /The Rules, a global collective of writers, thinkers, coders, farmers, artists and activists of all types dedicated to challenging the root causes of global poverty and inequality. Prior to /The Rules Martin was the Head of Campaigns at Oxfam UK, and Head of Global Advocacy for Save the Children. He has written extensively on issues of poverty, inequality and climate change, including co-authoring Finding Frames: New Ways to Engage the UK Public in Global Poverty to help bring insights from psychology, neuroscience, systems theory and other academic disciplines to bear on issues of public understanding of complex global challenges.
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
Journal Article
Alnoor: …There is no doubt that we are in the midst of unprecedented moment where there is no return to old certainties. Part of this pain that we are facing in the world is a pathway toward transformation. Or will we perish in the horror of the onslaught that we are facing?
The Future of Activism
Article
If we want to craft a form of activism that has a chance of engaging at the level of root ideology and worldview, it will need to have both the clarity of understanding and the tools to target far more of its firepower at the true root cause of our poly-crises: global capitalism.
The Power of Wetiko: Looking in the Mirror to Solve the Global Crisis
Article
Given that we have invited people from all over the world to ‘see wetiko’—because by seeing it, we gain power over it—it is only fair that we do the same ourselves. So this is how I personally see wetiko and why I find it so enlightening and powerful.
Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
Article
By Alnoor Ladha
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?