I choose compassion because I want others to be happy and not to suffer. That is the intelligent way to live. Not that I am infallible, but I strive. Kindness and compassion are also a matter of enlightened self-interest. They bring mutual happiness to both oneself and others. But do
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: 5 Key Points For Understanding The World In 2020 & Beyond
A number of points must be investigated, examined in depth, realized and understood, if we are to understand the events unfolding in 2020 and beyond. A crisis of legitimacy (popular discontent combined with public loss of confidence and trust in ruling elites) was reaching critical mass globally, growing from its
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: And justice for none
Listen to the words of an honest journalist – a rare creature in these Orwellian times: “When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Capitalism will eat democracy — unless we speak up
Here is an open letter to the thinkers, scholars and activists of the world – a letter, unrevised, that I just sent to several friends, colleagues, and mentors. Hi folks, Yanis Varoufakis was right in saying, in 2015, that capitalism will eat democracy, unless we speak up – though it took
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Root of the Problem
Long-winded and verbose, typically does not equate to insightful, or even, necessarily, sane. Often the briefest statements are the most important: such as the Magna Carta, The Declaration of Independence, or the UN Declaration of Human Rights. In the spirit of concision with compellng clarity, and hopefully, a clarion call
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Dystopian Future Of “Education” Is Here
Kunstler is very worth reading, very perceptive, very thoughtful, and his general depiction of the decline and slow collapse of petrochemical industrial modern “civilization” is in broad strokes most likely to unfold. That doesn’t make him omniscient or infallible, of course. He, like most people across the political spectrum, radically
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Top Priority Reading: A Letter To All
Here is the letter I wrote for my son today, on his fifteenth birthday, advising him on important reading, based on my own 50,000+ hours of research, studies, reflection and meditation, over the course of three and a half decades. I would urge anyone, and everyone, to read these twenty-five
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Geopolitics 2020 – Part Two
Extremely important to understand: China is a police state, yet, it is now more free than the Western world, having removed many of the authoritarian restrictions which were imposed globally in 2020, while the West is now literally more authoritarian than China. China’s economy is soaring, primarily because they removed
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Facebook Is Not News. Time For The Exodus From Big Tech To Increase From A Steady Torrent To A Flood
42% of people globally use Facebook as their news source. That should be a chilling fact to anyone who still has some functioning grey matter. “Google” it, has become synonymous with doing a web search. That too, for those who know how Google operates, should chill us to the bone.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Importing From China, Part Two: We Need A Green New Deal, Not An Orwellian Police State
What is the state of China and the West? Here is a brief synopsis and overview. This much, at least, should be perfectly clear: switching off fossil fuels – with a full speed, WWII level effort – is urgently required, and renewables are the clear answer, along with the even
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The War On Democracy
(Comment below after listening to the most important three minutes of info you are likely to hear in decades, or have likely ever heard. Noam Chomsky on The Crisis Of Democracy, via Spotify, is linked below. But note this important synopsis of my political analysis, which pretty much accords with Chomsky’s,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo, omnivore: ethics & ecological realities
Black and white thinking must go. Clannish thinking must go. Refusal to question or change, must be overcome. Factory farming must be banned. Agriculture and food must go organic. Industrial agriculture has been an ecological and public health catastrophe. Free range organic is a must, if you eat animal protein.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Healing the world through gardening
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” – Bill Mollison, permaculture co-originator Many things are required to heal our world. Removing the corporate elite from their current position as the de facto, unelected rulers of the world, is priority number one. There are
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: New Normal Is A Continuation Of The Old War Machine – For The Common Good, Of Course
The Democrats face the same problem as the Republicans – they are corrupt, and owned by Wall St. That includes, of course, the big banks, Big Oil, Big Tech, the military industrial complex & the war machine, & Big Pharma, naturally. The new official enemy is a virus, we are
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Democratic Socialism
I would call myself a left libertarian democratic socialist, but with the emphasis on libertarian democrat. However, no one of reasonable intelligence, with any slight idea of what our history and present realities are, should be in the slightest afraid of the term “democratic socialist”. Ralph Nader explains these basic
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: “Conspiracy Theory”
Remember what Chomsky said, summing it up perfectly: “The term “conspiracy theory” is used to poo-poo institutional analysis.” Exactly. And what does that mean? It means the phrase was coined by the FBI in the 1960’s to discredit the theory that the Deep State, the military industrial
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: White Man, Listen. Modern Man, Listen and learn
Pioneer species that regenerate the entire local ecosystem – what a brilliant, wonderful discovery by biologists and ecologists. Except that, like many things, it is not a discovery, but a rediscovery. Still, it is a truly wonderful, and potentially planet-saving practical idea, nevertheless. This rediscovery of a radically simple method,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Canada, Climate Emergency and Economic Cataclysm: A Proposed Response In Brief
Or, On Trolls and Concision, Sound-Bite Culture, and The Importance of Thinking For Yourself (Please see my recent essay, titled, Canada, eh?, for part one of this present meditation) The following issues require immediate, urgent attention, thought and action, proritized in the highest degree by all levels of society,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: On Rescuing Our Language and Communication Skills From the Dustbin of History – And Our Standards of Basic Courtesy and Civility Along With Them
Texting, instant messaging, online chat, the mainstream media, and the general direction of our modern society and “culture”, are destroying the people’s capacity to communicate, to think, to feel, and hence also, to act rationally….This must be addressed. Here is one response, to one part of that picture. If you
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Know Your Enemy
Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will be victorious. – Sun Tzu * Never underestimate what a few individuals will do in pursuit of wealth, privilege, or power. The danger of a sociopathic powerful few being able to carry out monstrous acts, because the many refuse to believe
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