About

About Us? This is really about you…

Why are you here? What are you looking for? Information on the implications of globalisation? How banking really works? The insatiable machinations of advertising and how this affects children, media and hence social control? How about the links between Indigenous rights, racism and the police? Or how technology affects the natural environment? How does overpopulation, the myth of perpetual economic growth on a finite planet, and energy collapse fit together? How does the industrial food system work? What are the links between mass extinction of species, climate change, the toxification of the total environment, with corrupt governments, avaricious politicking, and the ever-expanding corporatocracy in this age of screens, propaganda bubbles and an unparalleled global surveillance state of scientific precision never before possible? And what to do about all this?

This website is an online library of films that aims to provoke your thoughts not only about these important issues, but many other pertinent topics relevant to challenging the fundamental ideas of modern society, industrial civilisation and globalised dominant culture.

There’s already a lot of information across the Internet about these issues, but this project seeks cut through the noise and garbage, to present a library of work that is valuable and important, in a way that is contextualised, accessible, useful, and hopefully more easily digested for exploring and understanding.

This is still a massive undertaking though, and we can understand that—especially considering the interconnectedness and complexity of all these issues, as well as the crossing over of perspectives, and the way so-called “new media” can portray these same old problems, but also for the fact that we know that some information here can be incomplete, sometimes contradictory or even controversial. But this is the point. It’s all part of what we’re trying to do: provoke critical thinking, questioning, and…doing.

We’ve fundamentally built this library resource to share, inform and inspire action—and no, we’re not talking about clicking the stupid ‘Like’ button on Facebook, signing online petitions, e-mail writing, or twitting with political figureheads on Twitter as part of the Public Relations machine—we mean informing and inspiring real-world actions that are effective, in the real world; with real-world tangibility, real-world consequences and real-world changes; to take this knowledge away from the computer, away from the screen, to rejuvenate strong networks with people around you in the real physical world; to discuss, plan, act.

This is not a clicktivism website and nor is it a simple collection of popular content, like the other websites available. It’s a 100% not-for-profit library to inform, inspire and provoke radical real-world social and political change, and to help generate a multitude of responses and reactions towards those ends.

We do this because we think that provoking and informing action of a multitude of responses is just some of what is needed to break paradigms, subservience, acquiescence; to cultivate strong communities of resistance, strengthen relationships, and to nourish the inspiration across all to continue to work on the plethora of issues facing us, together.

We live in a time where all these issues are global and have long ago reached critical points, but the good news is that with everything being so messed up—everywhere you look, there’s good work to be done. And we hope that this library will help you go about doing that good work… Because we need it all.

Welcome to the introduction.
— Thought Maybe Team

 
Thought Maybe is a 100% independent, autonomous, not-for-profit, self-directed project that exists to inspire action on a whole bunch of issues surrounding modern society, industrial civilisation, globalised dominant culture.

Here’s the break-down:

Independent

This website does not use nor support corporate “communication networks” such as YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. We think its important to maintain an independent platform for publishing—insofar as it’s possible to do on the Internet of corporate-controlled gateways or ISPs.

We run this project using Open Source Software and embrace the notion of Creative Commons, and supportive sharing.

Self-funded

We don’t run advertising on our site because we find it repugnant, compromising and unwanted!

This project is entirely not-for-profit—an open library funded by a small crew of dedicated media activists throughout the world. This freely accessible library is our labour of love project for positive social and political change. Even though it is a hard job, we don’t get paid.

We don’t receive any outside funds of any type, and we don’t receive nor would we accept money from any corporate or government entities. Our vested interest lays solely with humanity and the natural world, not this culture, not this system.

Let’s get to work!

Autonomous

This library is independent and autonomous. It is a labour of love run by a small crew of dedicated activists throughout the world. We have no affiliations and are not part of any organisation or group, which means no vested interest, which means we can publish what is needed without interference, censorship or vetoing.

We don’t work with any commercial organisations, religious groups, political parties, etc—we’re entirely independent and self-determined in order to remain effective about what we set out to achieve, which is to cultivate and nurture an effective culture of resistance to the pertinent social and political issues outlined in this library. It is why filmmakers make films, it’s why we do what we do to support getting them seen and acted on. Where it goes from here is up to you…

Thank you for visiting.