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Intentional Communities, Politics & Culture, Uncategorized

Fighting Fire with Fire: Virtual vs. Embodied Tribalism

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.  African Proverb Over the past couple weeks, Donald Trump has rapidly ramped up his war against all things foreign, liberal, and modern. I am writing this on the morning of June 14th, so his ridiculous Kim-Jong-Donald military parade is scheduled to run concurrently with the nationwide No Kings … Continue reading Fighting Fire with Fire: Virtual vs. Embodied Tribalism

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Poison Pyramid: The Tyrannous Tiers of Trumpism

There is tyranny in the womb of every Utopia. Bertrand De Jouvenel We’ve had about four months of Trump 2.0 now, and the most staggering thing about his new term is the sheer volume of damage he is able to do, mostly just from speaking and tweeting off the cuff. The overall sense is of a bloated and bored sultan, lying on a mountain of … Continue reading Poison Pyramid: The Tyrannous Tiers of Trumpism

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Ecological Collapse, Intentional Communities, Politics & Culture, Uncategorized

The Illusory Future of Trumptopia

Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind. King Lear Those who are most asleep think they are most awake, being under the power of vivid and fixed visions, so that those who are most ignorant think they know the most. Theodotus (2nd century C.E.) The dizzying pace of Trump’s rampage through the tattered hallways of American precedent continues. The Walmart Price-Fixer-in-Chief can wreak … Continue reading The Illusory Future of Trumptopia

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Convergence & Cataclysm: The Tectonic Plates of Trumpism

Clinging to politics is one way of avoiding the confrontation with the devouring logic of civilization. John Zerzan The only paradise is paradise lost. Proust In the big picture, the pandemic was probably the best thing that could have happened to Donald Trump. Had there been no Covid, he would have cruised to reelection, mainly due to the favorable conditions inherited from the Obama years. … Continue reading Convergence & Cataclysm: The Tectonic Plates of Trumpism

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Politics & Culture

Stop the Steal Redux: Why Conservatives Are Pushing All-In on Election Fraud…Again

When combined with mail-in ballots, the system is *designed* to make it impossible to prove fraud. Elon Musk Tweet from 7/8/2024 We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections, but it’s not something that is easily provable. We don’t have that number. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, 5/8/2024 Even before the baton pass from Biden to Harris, when … Continue reading Stop the Steal Redux: Why Conservatives Are Pushing All-In on Election Fraud…Again

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Strange Expectations: The Age of Magical Thinking Hits the Wall

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. Arthur Miller Those who are most asleep think they are most awake, being under the power of vivid and fixed visions, so that those who are most ignorant think they know most. Theodotus (2nd Century C.E.) There is, I think, a growing, deep, general awareness of a massive systems failure in our … Continue reading Strange Expectations: The Age of Magical Thinking Hits the Wall

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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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Ecological Collapse, Economics, Politics & Culture, Universal Basic Income

After Trump: Is there any common ground?

Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable. Milton Friedman As I write this (Jan 2nd), there are … Continue reading After Trump: Is there any common ground?

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Politics & Culture

Setting the Table

In the last couple posts (here and here), we established this general framework: our country is being artificially split into two warring factions, mainly due to our electoral machinery (winner-take-all) and the partisan media that feasts on the resulting confrontational style of politics. As economic conditions on the ground deteriorate for regular people, narrative theodicies arise to explain why things are so screwed up, and … Continue reading Setting the Table

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