Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. Joe Biden, March 2020 Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere. Mehmet Murat ildan Disclaimers: First, I am not a registered Democrat. I used to be, but in 2020 I changed over to the Green Party, and I’ve been voting those candidates ever since. Living in … Continue reading Bridge to Nowhere: Democrats After the Debate Debacle
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7 With the 2024 election looming like an autumn iceberg in the mist, many people, liberals and conservatives, are wondering: “How did we get here?” How is it that, with the world collapsing around us on multiple fronts, we’re again stuck with two doddering octogenarians, who no one really wanted, vying for … Continue reading Reaping the Whirlwind: The Conservative Dilemma
The Democrats should move on from identity politics. It’s not working. They are hemorrhaging the very voters they think they’re pandering to. Bill Maher It is somewhat customary now for liberals to criticize other liberals for being overly infatuated with identity politics. Bill Maher is typical of this sort of lecturing, recently opining, “the more you obsess over identity, the more you ignore the bread … Continue reading The Problem with Bill Maher: Identity Politics as Low-Hanging Fruit
No plea to return to ‘normality’ or the ‘everyday’ is now worthwhile. Only the extraordinary can save us. Gregory Claeys The real question is: How much truth can I stand? Nietzsche The 2024 presidential race is an unusual animal, in that there are really no On-the-Fence voters this time around. A recent Quinnipiac poll had Undecideds at 1%, the same number that refused to answer, … Continue reading How Should Biden Win?
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools Martin Luther King, Jr. Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect Chief Seattle Community is the only heaven we can reasonably look forward to, the only … Continue reading We Are Each Other’s Future
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller This past week, Donald Trump won the NH primary, all but locking up his candidacy for the fall. So we’re fated for a rematch that most Americans want no part of, and the odds are that Trump will come out on … Continue reading A Different Game: A New Liberal Playbook
Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. Edward Conze The only illusion is division. Wald Wasserman As 2023 winds down, the specter of a Trump-centric 2024 looms large. Despite the general suckiness of this past year, I haven’t met too many people eager to turn the calendar page, because they … Continue reading Transcending Trumpism: Breaking the Death Grip of Dualism
People never leave a sinking ship until they until they see the lights of another ship approaching. Buckminster Fuller You have to see it to be it. Billie Jean King Before getting into the meat of this new post, let’s just do a quick recap lap, to level-set our starting assumptions. Evidence is mounting that we’re in the midst of a massive, not-so-slow-motion system collapse, … Continue reading Our Next Way of Life: A Thought Experiment
Last time, we looked at how bad things are from an ecological perspective, and how a universal cognitive dissonance has emerged, coming from the lack of congruity between the pending collapse we all sense and the various delusional stories we are being told about possible paths to the future. This creeping sense of disoriented dread is exacerbated by the lack of any workable points of … Continue reading The Cheat Code for Preventing and/or Surviving The Coming Collapse (Part 2)
Utopias are often just premature truths. Alphonse de Lamartine The Bad News I haven’t looked into any concrete stats on this, but my sense is that there is growing popular suspicion that something very big is coming to an end. We might not know what that ‘something’ is, exactly (Civilization? Industrialism? Capitalism?), but with every passing season, the lurking shadow of collapse is taking shape … Continue reading The Cheat Code for Preventing and/or Surviving the coming Collapse (Part 1)
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