by Shaun Chamberlin
Welcome to LeanLogic.online!
This project emerged from a 2017 Schumacher College course on David Fleming’s work.
One of the attendees was Matthew Taylor, drawn by parallels between Lean Logic and his own project, and he has since given his time and skills freely to developing this new presentation of Fleming’s legacy, just as I gave mine to seeing the original books through to posthumous publication.
Since the format of Lean Logic in many ways foreshadowed the later invention of Wikipedia, it feels so appropriate to see it brought into the hyperlinked internet age to which it is so well suited!
And appropriate too that it now provides a venue for the discussions David hoped to start. He saw each entry in his Dictionary for the Future not as the final word, but as a jumping-off point for… well, in his own words, “do nothing that matters without consulting a conversation”.
So leave comments under the dictionary entries to open those conversations, or to let us know where you find value in the new format, or how it could be improved! And enjoy the new facility of easily scanning the whole dictionary via the search that you’ll find at the top-right of every page; something every Lean Logic fan has longed for.
We very much hope this new format for Fleming’s great work will extend the reach of what of what has already proved an influential and entertaining read for thinkers and doers across the world!
Hopefully helped along too by our ongoing Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time online courses with Vermont’s Sterling College, and by the 2020 film The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?, for both of which see just below…
Opening with a powerful ‘deep time’ perspective, from the beginning of the Earth to our present moment, this film recognizes the fundamental unsustainability of today’s society and dares to ask the big question: What will follow?
Around the world, fresh shoots are already emerging as people develop the skills, will and resources necessary to recapture the initiative and re-imagine civilization, often in the ruins of collapsed mainstream economies.
We encounter extraordinary projects and people from four continents, all cultivating a resilience not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth; developing diverse, convivial, satisfying contexts for lives well lived.
And all inspired by Lean Logic, a work of rare depth that is rekindling optimism in the creativity and intelligence of humans to nurse our communities and ecology back to health.
~~ Visit thesequel.net to see the full film ~~