It begins with a brief look at small experiments that flickered but never scaled. It follows with large-scale cultural movements and theoretical frameworks that shaped discourse, but failed to anchor into institutional or structural power. Then it turns to four specific case studies:
- Tzar Monk, a bold political reframe of post-authoritarian continuity in Russia
- The Apocalypse Aversion Project, an early warning signal turned slow resignation
- The Transformative Trinity, a major proposal of the Hipster Energy movement
- The Church of Earth, a platform for spiritual economics and cooperative governance
The Big Visions That Shaped Eras (but Didn’t Work)
Some ideas are too big to be ignored. They don’t ask for attention—they generate it. These are the macro-myths of the early twenty-first century: efforts to name the brokenness of the world and offer alternatives that spanned continents, ideologies, and disciplines. They weren’t fringe. They shaped discourse, redirected careers, and altered the internal narratives of tens of thousands of people. But none of them built structures that lasted. Their failures echo more loudly than their insights.
The Venus Project, Occupy Wall Street, The Zeitgeist Movement, Game B, Web3 as movement, Effective Altruism (EA)
