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The Problem with Bill Maher: Identity Politics as Low-Hanging Fruit

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

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How Should Biden Win?

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?

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We Are Each Other’s Future

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

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Intentional Communities, Modern Money Theory, Politics & Culture, Universal Basic Income

A Different Game: A New Liberal Playbook

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

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Transcending Trumpism: Breaking the Death Grip of Dualism

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

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Our Next Way of Life: A Thought Experiment

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

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The Cheat Code for Preventing and/or Surviving The Coming Collapse (Part 2)

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)

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The Cheat Code for Preventing and/or Surviving the coming Collapse (Part 1)

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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Reversing The Fall: Our Next Demographic Transition

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable — and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. Daniel Quinn Our way of life doesn’t need to be saved. The planet needs to be saved from our way of life. Lierre Keith In this blog, I have written extensively about the need for building concrete model communities as triggers for wider social change. … Continue reading Reversing The Fall: Our Next Demographic Transition

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Our Civilization’s Crisis of Place

I want to leave my country without leaving my home. Kirkpatrick Sale We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. Joni Mitchell A couple months ago, my wife and I finally got down to Costa Rica on vacation, for 10 glorious days. We have been trying to get there for a while now, but you know… pandemic and post-pandemic and all that. As we … Continue reading Our Civilization’s Crisis of Place

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