Defending Democracy: Next Steps
Here’s one history professor’s list of things to do to prevent an even worse situation. It gets patriotic at the end, but I like these bits: “Look out for the…
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Defending Democracy: Next Steps
Here’s one history professor’s list of things to do to prevent an even worse situation. It’s gets patriotic at the end, but I like these bits: “Look out for the…
What Exponential Growth Looks Like
It’s a mesmerizing 6 minute video: It’s interesting what they focus on and what they leave out. Here’s where we’re headed:
What Exponential Growth Looks Like
It’s a mesmerizing 6 minute video: It’s interesting what they focus on and what they leave out. Here’s where we’re headed:
Monbiot’s Impossible Crises
George Monbiot lists 13 crises, but warns you should only read the list if you’re feeling very strong. It’s an appropriate warning. He’s barely even talking about climate change here,…
Monbiot’s Impossible Crises
George Monbiot lists 13 crises, but warns you should only read the list if you’re feeling very strong. It’s an appropriate warning. He’s barely even talking about climate change here,…
Standing Rock Resistance
Chris Hedges is in Standing Rock, back to his original career as a war correspondent. The natives there are preparing for winter, and I’m struck by the contrast to the…
Standing Rock Resistance
Chris Hedges is in Standing Rock, back to his original career as a war correspondent. The natives there are preparing for winter, and I’m struck by the contrast to the…
More on Critical Thinking
Owen at Northern Reflections wrote about Crawford Kilian‘s recent article in the Tyee about the need for critical thinking in schools, which referenced Jeet Heer‘s twitter essay on Sartre where…
More on Critical Thinking
Owen at Northern Reflections wrote about Crawford Kilian‘s recent article in the Tyee about the need for critical thinking in schools, which referenced Jeet Heer‘s twitter essay on Sartre where…
Water as a Human Right
In a recent article in my local paper, Peter Shawn Taylor says that anyone who wants to stop Nestle from draining aquifers doesn’t understand economics and is hostile to capitalism.…
Is This the Sixth Estate?
The “Fourth Estate” is an antiquated term for unofficial social and political forces, primarily the media. Use of the term recognized, over two centuries ago, that the media affect social…
Back to Work Boobless
I’m really glad I decided to go back to work part time for a week. I highly recommend that path for anyone getting this surgery. I thought I’d be completely…
Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy
Charles Taylor gave a lecture on the “Crises of Democracy” two years ago, as part of a “Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity” program where he explores the very…
A Genius Kvetching Ring
An article, three years old, was in my facebook feed today. But it was insanely timely. It’s a little lifestyle piece about how to talk to people who are sick…
On Being Useful: a Necessary Shift in Radicalism
“Oh, what can we do in a case like that? Nothing to do but sit on your hat, or your toothbrush, or your grandmother, or anything else that’s useless.“ Those…
Pie and Goldblum on Trump’s Win
Two videos for a Saturday: Jonathan Pie argues that the left is responsible for this result because they’ve given up putting up any argument at all: “Clinton…a candidate who’s been…
On Missing the Girls
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen (Everyone’s using that bit today,…
HyperNormalisation or Welcome to The Age of Absurdity
I added the subtitle above because this is one trippy film, but it’s important to see (or read this summary in about 15 minutes) after last night. It actually helps…
On the Nature of Gifts and Help
Being helped so much by so many has led me to thinking about the idea of help and of gifts and Derrida’s idea that gifts are impossible in that, in…