The Second Time As Farce
“… to borrow the phrase my friend Alley Valkyrie is fond of using about every apparent “contradiction” within liberal democracy: “it’s not a bug — it’s a feature.” In other words, the problems that seem to keep the capitalist liberal order from making good on its claims can never be resolved, because it needs to create them in order to exist.”
On Falling
What I'm inviting is for us to take our psyches and our power back from derangement and doom.
Winter Solstice Musings: Howling in the Darkness
It’s not late, but the gloom of the late afternoon deepens. The morning star, or rather the evening star, Venus, is like a diamond shining bright, rising in the deepening darkness of the sky, even as the horizon is splashed with a fabulous orange light.
Stealing The Elephant
I am inspired by the example of those early socialists, descendants of revolutionary Romanticism, who saw no absolute divide between the struggle for a socialist society and contiguous efforts to heal the wound of human alienation from nature.
Why “the left” didn’t buy what the Democrats were selling
The Democrats failed to understand that some of us actually believe the things we say we do, and that we refuse to betray our deepest values no matter how much we’re threatened.
Editorial: Murder in My Name
From Rhyd Wildermuth: " I'm not the sort of person the police or military exist to protect...why let them murder in my name?"
Nobel in Economics Awards Proof that the Whiter, the Wealthier
Three Caucasian-American men were awarded a million dollars for a research project which concludes that wealth is where Europeans are.
Equinox Recipes For Autumn
Food is one of the most basic needs for all living things. But food is more than that. It connects us to our history, our ancestors, the land and nature.
Israelis for Peace and the Global Citizen Festival, are they saving the world?
There is no real solution that isn’t provocative, that doesn’t turn this planet, and its systems, on its head.
The Importance of Listening
People should always insist on having free speech, free thinking and expression as inviolable rights.
A People’s Guide To Tarot
A People’s Guide to Tarot shows how the skill of reading cards — and the mindset that comes with it — is available to everyone.
Veblen’s critique of Capitalism, part 2
If only we could pray and shop our way into feeling complete.
Demographic Collapse and the Legend of the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
The potlatch and gift economy, both indigenous practices, are forms of exchange that don’t require abstract capital, debt, reciprocity, or enforcement.
The Beauty of Trump
"What we get to see with Trump is that capitalism has nowhere to go other than into the darker reaches of itself." From Charles Liburd