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Stop imagining the apocalypse. Start imagining the renaissance.

Oi Polloi’s manifesto for a better future.

2 min readNov 10, 2020

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Stop imagining the apocalypse. Start imagining the renaissance.

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What Does Not

Thanksgiving in the age of escapism

Indigenous wisdom to come home to ourselves & authentic connection

5 min readNov 23, 2023

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Thanksgiving in the age of escapism

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Mary Valiakas
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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…

7 min readApr 28, 2023

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The butterfly effect of a night out

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Mary Valiakas

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…

7 min readJan 20, 2023

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

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Mary Valiakas

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…

12 min readJan 2, 2022

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Reframing the past to create a new future

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Mary Valiakas

Overview effect to the rescue?

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

2 min readJul 21, 2021

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Overview effect to the rescue?

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Mary Valiakas

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…

7 min readDec 1, 2020

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Why systems change requires shadow work

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Mary Valiakas

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.

8 min readApr 13, 2020

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Kindness as diplomacy

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Mary Valiakas

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…

2 min readOct 18, 2019

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

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Mary Valiakas

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

7 min readMay 27, 2019

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An Almanac of Madness and Redemption

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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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