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Stop imagining the apocalypse. Start imagining the renaissance.

Oi Polloi’s manifesto for a better future.

Nov 10, 2020

Stop imagining the apocalypse. Start imagining the renaissance.

Nov 10, 2020

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What Does Not

Thanksgiving in the age of escapism

Indigenous wisdom to come home to ourselves & authentic connection

Nov 23, 2023

Thanksgiving in the age of escapism

Nov 23, 2023

Published in
What Does Not

The butterfly effect of a night out

Can a pay-it-forward campaign to support free nights out unleash a chain reaction of kindness and save London’s nightlife? Help us keep fun…

Apr 28, 2023

The butterfly effect of a night out

Apr 28, 2023

How fun can change the world: mindful hedonism + spending power = unstoppable force for good

Changing the world can and should be all fun and games. Because all the solutions to the world’s problems exist — we just have to remember…

Jan 20, 2023

How fun can change the world: mindful hedonism + spending power = unstoppable force for good

Jan 20, 2023

Reframing the past to create a new future

What a Roman god, Greece adopting the Euro, the toilet paper panic, the Great Resignation, and the Oi Polloi executive summary all have in…

Jan 2, 2022

Reframing the past to create a new future

Jan 2, 2022

Overview effect to the rescue?

The optimist’s view of the billionaire space race and space tourism.

Jul 21, 2021

Overview effect to the rescue?

Jul 21, 2021

Why systems change requires shadow work

From cancel culture, to rape culture, systemic racism and everything in between — acknowledging our own and society’s skeletons is…

Dec 1, 2020

Why systems change requires shadow work

Dec 1, 2020

Kindness as diplomacy

An open letter to Queen Elizabeth II inviting her to become a United Nations Kindness Ambassador in a bid to spread a kindness contagion.

Apr 13, 2020

Kindness as diplomacy

Apr 13, 2020

What the granddaughters of the witches that didn’t burn, did next

An ode to strong women in the age of rebirthing social structures. Because feminism in its most evolved form is a rallying cry for unity…

Oct 18, 2019

What the granddaughters of the witches that didn’t burn, did next

Oct 18, 2019

An Almanac of Madness and Redemption

A roadmap for a way out and co-created hope as we stand on the brink of human extinction #NoJoke. AKA metaphysics in motion

May 27, 2019

An Almanac of Madness and Redemption

May 27, 2019

Mary Valiakas

Mary Valiakas

Currently rebooting Greece: www.oipolloi.io | Part of a team with a mission to make solidarity sexy: whatdoesnot.com | She advocates user-centred policy design

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