The Brink is a concept. It is the culmination of decades of dreaming and talking about a space where community, nature and quality of life become the goals, not the victims of a system that consistently tears them down in a perpetual drive towards more production and economic growth. Profit over everything. The worship of money above all else. It is the opposite of that, it is a simplification and slowdown that allows one to stop and breathe. Where interactions mean more than money.
It is also a place. In Tasmania.
It’s called The Brink because this term lives on a constant edge of positive and negative connotation depending on the context it is used. You can be pushed to the brink when things become too much, or, you can be on the brink of something wonderful. This interplay between two extremes captures the essence of living in this always connected Quantum culture where everyday both horror and beauty can be observed literally at the same time. Some of us want to get off this roller coaster now.
As this journey progresses there will certainly be many moments where these extremes are felt but on a more micro level due to more interesting problems to solve other than how to make a faceless, exploitative corporation richer.
Fitting that this is posted November 5th.
