Civic Renewal Initiative
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Exploring the Civic Renewal Initiative & The Dignity Economy—where story meets system, and data meets dignity.
Joseph Campbell thought myth wasn’t superstition, but information.
I argue myth was humanity’s first field theory—a way to describe invisible forces before math could.
This piece connects myth, field dynamics, and the Civic Renewal Initiative. Check it out!
I argue myth was humanity’s first field theory—a way to describe invisible forces before math could.
This piece connects myth, field dynamics, and the Civic Renewal Initiative. Check it out!
What Campbell Saw: Myth as Humanity’s First Field Theory
Joseph Campbell spent his life doing something initially unfashionable but quite radical: he took myth seriously.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Joseph Campbell thought myth wasn’t superstition, but information.
I argue myth was humanity’s first field theory—a way to describe invisible forces before math could.
This piece connects myth, field dynamics, and the Civic Renewal Initiative. Check it out!
I argue myth was humanity’s first field theory—a way to describe invisible forces before math could.
This piece connects myth, field dynamics, and the Civic Renewal Initiative. Check it out!
New Substack: on disentangling fairness and structure in the Civic Renewal Initiative, and why conceptual clarity matters more than speed when you’re building something meant to last.
Untangling Intertwined Concepts: Saving the CRI
Separating perception from structure in a growing systems model
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December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
New Substack: on disentangling fairness and structure in the Civic Renewal Initiative, and why conceptual clarity matters more than speed when you’re building something meant to last.
Modeling fairness as geometry, dignity as equilibrium, and opportunity as flow. That’s the work.
Designing for Dignity: Modeling the Civic Manifold
When I first began outlining Curvature Economics, I wasn’t trying to reinvent anything.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Modeling fairness as geometry, dignity as equilibrium, and opportunity as flow. That’s the work.
Been quiet these past two weeks, but not idle. The Civic Renewal Initiative has entered its most complex stage yet—the point where theory begins to touch simulation. I just posted an update on what’s changed (and what’s next) for The Civic Renewal Initiative & the Dignity Economy.
Where the Civic Renewal Initiative Stands — and Where It’s Headed
An update following the hiatus
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November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Been quiet these past two weeks, but not idle. The Civic Renewal Initiative has entered its most complex stage yet—the point where theory begins to touch simulation. I just posted an update on what’s changed (and what’s next) for The Civic Renewal Initiative & the Dignity Economy.
What if hope could be measured — not as emotion, but as motivational social energy that changes neighborhoods?
We just published “Measuring Hope”, exploring how invisible acts of care and cooperation can be modeled like physics.
🧮 Read it here → open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
We just published “Measuring Hope”, exploring how invisible acts of care and cooperation can be modeled like physics.
🧮 Read it here → open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
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Documenting the ideas, concepts, and mathematics behind the Civic Renewal Initiative & The Dignity Economy—bridging narrative insight with analytic depth. Click to read The Civic Renewal Initiative Su...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What if hope could be measured — not as emotion, but as motivational social energy that changes neighborhoods?
We just published “Measuring Hope”, exploring how invisible acts of care and cooperation can be modeled like physics.
🧮 Read it here → open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
We just published “Measuring Hope”, exploring how invisible acts of care and cooperation can be modeled like physics.
🧮 Read it here → open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
Hope isn’t sentimental—it’s labor.
Every unseen act of care or organizing reshapes the field of opportunity.
The Economics of Hope explores how human effort itself becomes value—what old economics neglected to count.
#CivicRenewalInitiative #EconomicsOfHope #DignityEconomy
Every unseen act of care or organizing reshapes the field of opportunity.
The Economics of Hope explores how human effort itself becomes value—what old economics neglected to count.
#CivicRenewalInitiative #EconomicsOfHope #DignityEconomy
The Economics of Hope
Part I
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hope isn’t sentimental—it’s labor.
Every unseen act of care or organizing reshapes the field of opportunity.
The Economics of Hope explores how human effort itself becomes value—what old economics neglected to count.
#CivicRenewalInitiative #EconomicsOfHope #DignityEconomy
Every unseen act of care or organizing reshapes the field of opportunity.
The Economics of Hope explores how human effort itself becomes value—what old economics neglected to count.
#CivicRenewalInitiative #EconomicsOfHope #DignityEconomy
Why is the president sending military troops into cities with guns, instead of with hammers and nails to rebuild houses?
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Why is the president sending military troops into cities with guns, instead of with hammers and nails to rebuild houses?
You don’t own the farm.
You just work harder on it than anyone else.
The Small Potato Fallacy
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You just work harder on it than anyone else.
The Small Potato Fallacy
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October 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You don’t own the farm.
You just work harder on it than anyone else.
The Small Potato Fallacy
🔗 echoesfromthemargin.substack.com/p/the-small-potato-fallacy
You just work harder on it than anyone else.
The Small Potato Fallacy
🔗 echoesfromthemargin.substack.com/p/the-small-potato-fallacy
A story of quiet collapse: a teacher’s day, a child’s hunger, and the machinery that feeds on both. This isn’t about schools — it’s about the violence of economic precarity & the draining of meaning for efficiency.
#DignityEconomy #EconomicViolence #FORCE #EchoesFromTheMargin #CivicRenewal
#DignityEconomy #EconomicViolence #FORCE #EchoesFromTheMargin #CivicRenewal
Ms. Carter’s Daily Offering & the Violence of Extraction
A story of one teacher, many systems, and the quiet brutality of an economy that feeds on care.
echoesfromthemargin.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A story of quiet collapse: a teacher’s day, a child’s hunger, and the machinery that feeds on both. This isn’t about schools — it’s about the violence of economic precarity & the draining of meaning for efficiency.
#DignityEconomy #EconomicViolence #FORCE #EchoesFromTheMargin #CivicRenewal
#DignityEconomy #EconomicViolence #FORCE #EchoesFromTheMargin #CivicRenewal
Economists call it “rational” to cut jobs, offshore cash, or price medicine out of reach.
What happens when care is chosen over extraction?
Mr. March laughed at the first headline that mocked him:
“Lottery Winner Burns Through Millions — Economists Cry Lunacy.”
What happens thirty years later?
What happens when care is chosen over extraction?
Mr. March laughed at the first headline that mocked him:
“Lottery Winner Burns Through Millions — Economists Cry Lunacy.”
What happens thirty years later?
https://echoesfromthemargin.substack.com/p/mr-march-and-the-morning-papers]
October 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Economists call it “rational” to cut jobs, offshore cash, or price medicine out of reach.
What happens when care is chosen over extraction?
Mr. March laughed at the first headline that mocked him:
“Lottery Winner Burns Through Millions — Economists Cry Lunacy.”
What happens thirty years later?
What happens when care is chosen over extraction?
Mr. March laughed at the first headline that mocked him:
“Lottery Winner Burns Through Millions — Economists Cry Lunacy.”
What happens thirty years later?
😨 Sometimes the fear of change feels heavier than the system itself.
💥 Every system looks unbreakable…until the first crack.
🕰️ The moment between fear and resolve decides everything.
Read here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
💥 Every system looks unbreakable…until the first crack.
🕰️ The moment between fear and resolve decides everything.
Read here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
The First Crack in the Dam
Turning Fear into Resolve
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September 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
😨 Sometimes the fear of change feels heavier than the system itself.
💥 Every system looks unbreakable…until the first crack.
🕰️ The moment between fear and resolve decides everything.
Read here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
💥 Every system looks unbreakable…until the first crack.
🕰️ The moment between fear and resolve decides everything.
Read here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
What if the year 2000 split into two futures?
➡️ One where anger calcified into endless wars and corruption.
➡️ Another where civic literacy & dignity reshaped democracy.
A story about the cost of ignorance—and the possibility of renewal.
➡️ One where anger calcified into endless wars and corruption.
➡️ Another where civic literacy & dignity reshaped democracy.
A story about the cost of ignorance—and the possibility of renewal.
September 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What if the year 2000 split into two futures?
➡️ One where anger calcified into endless wars and corruption.
➡️ Another where civic literacy & dignity reshaped democracy.
A story about the cost of ignorance—and the possibility of renewal.
➡️ One where anger calcified into endless wars and corruption.
➡️ Another where civic literacy & dignity reshaped democracy.
A story about the cost of ignorance—and the possibility of renewal.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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In 2000, I wrote an undergrad paper arguing that American higher ed wasn’t cultivating intellect—it was stalling labor.
I called it: The Indentured Replacement Theory of Credential Inflation.
25 years later, data says I wasn’t cynical enough.
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I called it: The Indentured Replacement Theory of Credential Inflation.
25 years later, data says I wasn’t cynical enough.
Check my new Substack: open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
OSF
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August 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
In 2000, I wrote an undergrad paper arguing that American higher ed wasn’t cultivating intellect—it was stalling labor.
I called it: The Indentured Replacement Theory of Credential Inflation.
25 years later, data says I wasn’t cynical enough.
Check my new Substack: open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
I called it: The Indentured Replacement Theory of Credential Inflation.
25 years later, data says I wasn’t cynical enough.
Check my new Substack: open.substack.com/pub/echoesfr...
I'm trying hard to write a horror novel but non-fiction is more terrifying. Imma halfta switch genres.
December 2, 2024 at 4:42 AM
I'm trying hard to write a horror novel but non-fiction is more terrifying. Imma halfta switch genres.
Although I have a very captivated audience at home, I really do love listening to anything besides purring. Check out my YouTube channel and comment on some crazy shit I may have said. www.youtube.com/@Joe_Sharpe_...
November 21, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Although I have a very captivated audience at home, I really do love listening to anything besides purring. Check out my YouTube channel and comment on some crazy shit I may have said. www.youtube.com/@Joe_Sharpe_...
Plans to Eliminate the Dept of Education Don't Make Sense, Despite Need for Reform
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Plans to Eliminate the Dept of Education Don't Make Sense, Despite Need for Reform
YouTube video by Joe_Sharpe_Untethered
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November 20, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Plans to Eliminate the Dept of Education Don't Make Sense, Despite Need for Reform
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