mark chaffee

@mvchaffee.bsky.social

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Working on a world that trashes most anything so predominantly males can chase 'more-than'...more status, wealth and power...no matter what the social cost. Preparing a 4-book set focused on why we fail to build the world we claim that we value.

Image: Data from two No Kings marches — June and October 2025 — showing attendance and percentage of US population. A newborn baby floats above a protest crowd. Text asks whether we are ready to do the work needed beyond wailing our discomfort — which is all we could do when born. Research across the history of mass movements found that when 3.5% of a population actively resists authoritarians, the effort has never failed to force them out. ‘No Kings’ marches are approaching that number. Millions of people in the streets. Real. Significant. But consider this: MAGA is simply the latest ‘branding’ of a significant subset of the States. In 2020, 81 million Americans voted against MAGA’s ‘savior’…forced him out of office. That's 34% of eligible voters — nearly ten times the 3.5% threshold — using our system's own mechanism, its most legitimate channel, in a historic turnout not seen in over a century. And 4 years later... their ‘savior’s face’ returned…more broken and more of a threat than before. That ‘face’ promising harm was chosen again…because ‘our’ system that created that subset who selects such deeply broken males…was never touched. For some ten thousand years, since agricultural surplus first made it possible to accumulate 'more-than' at imposed collective costs, the positions of power have been filled by people shaped by the same pathological drive. We change who holds the position. The position remains what it was built to be. Oversight…managing and protecting differential benefit. Resistance can remove a face. It alone cannot dismantle the machinery that keeps producing those male faces. What can? People learning — together, face-to-face, in small groups, woven together — how we actually evolved to work as a social species. What we were built to do…before ten thousand years of 'more-than'… reshaped everything around extraction. 'WE' are THE social problem. Not any ‘them’. That's also why 'WE' are the only solution. A Course In 'Us' — werdreams.org
Photomontage of tour-group at the UN beside a long ditch of blue body bags, symbolizing preventable deaths and the cost of elite deception.
Illustration of a long ditch filled with blue body bags labeled with daily global death counts