Intellectual Self-Defence: Time For A Reading Sabbatical
To be brief: The obsession with quantity and volume has to end. More is not always better. Quality matters most. But people in the 21st century are addicted to endless…
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Tim Hortons has become the ultimate symbol of Canada
Canada is not a great country for symbols. Sure, there’s the maple leaf, but how many times do you actually see a maple leaf tree in Western Canada? There’s the…
Alberta’s War on Rights Will Become Poilievre’s War on Rights
Alberta’s War on Rights Will Become Poilievre’s War on Rights The post Alberta’s War on Rights Will Become Poilievre’s War on Rights first appeared on Excited Delirium.
The Death Of Materialism & The Rebirth Of The World
The Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, or world view, of atomistic, dualistic, mechanistic reductionism, is a very recent, 400 year old delusion, a recent blink of the eye, and is now crumbling as…
A Trump Presidency In 2025: Fascism, National Rebirth, Or Civil War?
Let me start by saying that I speak from the libertarian left – meaning, I fiercely believe in freedom, compassion, voluntary mutual aid, decentralization, and the sovereignty of individuals, communities,…
Defeat The Fascists! Unite The People Now!
The anti-authoritarian grassroots left and right are uniting – at last, as I’ve been urging for decades; and which is absolutely necessary, if we are to halt and reverse our…
A Sinking Ship On Fire: The Dismal State Of A Civilization (sic) In Slow Motion Collapse
(Written this morning as an open letter to a fine independent journalist) Patrick, I found you on 21st Century Wire and was very impressed. Before I listen to this TNT…
Socialism, Capitalism, Corporatism, & The Future Of Humanity: Ideology vs Reality
A few thoughts on the recent, very thoughtful and interesting discourse and debate, between Professors Brookes and Wolff, linked in the video below: To Professor Wolff:Bravo – brilliant crystalization. To…
Canada’s Version of McCarthyism Begins
Canada’s inquiry into foreign influence will be a misguided and misdirected mess. The post Canada’s Version of McCarthyism Begins first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Plague Update: From The Past
It’s January 27th, 2022, but you’re reading this in the future. I’m writing this after my intended bed time, having just helped a friend learn how to purchase an NFT.…
Fossil Fuel Companies’ New Evil Strategy
There’s an effort underway by Conservatives and Fossil Fuel companies to suggest that fossil fuels are “sustainable”. This is an attempt to rebrand fossil fuels as non-harmful, when the reality…
Whither the Alberta NDP?
During the provincial election of 2015, Rachel Notley was everywhere. Literally. The party – which, going into the election, had just four seats – was desperate. Their candidates were so…
Oh, Canada: A Funeral Dirge – And A Prayer
Travelling the world recently again, I am struck by the staggering ignorance among the great majority of people in the world, as to what Canada is like today. All of…
Trump Hysteria
Trump did little good in his first term as US President, and much that was bad – but he didn’t turn the US into a fascist police state: Cheney, Obama…
Renaissance, Resistance & Revolution
In terms of social movements, the Left is dead, for the time being, at least in the formerly industrialized, formerly “leading”, “developed”, First World nations of the (North-) West. The…
Teachers Prepared To Strike For Smaller Class Sizes
In recent years, many teachers are dealing with 40 kids, in unsafe classrooms, while the Sask Party Education Minister posts about a mining company on the day the strike is…
“Thankful For” List
Happy New Year! What is on your “thankful for” list at the start of 2024? 2023 concluded for me with a bang – I became a grandma! So far, a…
Money: It’s Value & Nature In A Time Of Collapse
Larning more about the nature and history of money, we eventually realize that money is simply a promissary note, valuable only because we agree it is valuable, a useful social…
Cutting Through The Chaff
A brief metaphysical musing on the nature of enlightenment, being and reality There are indeed many paths up the mountain. Sectarianism is juvenile and problematic at best; and dogmatism is…
My 2023 books worth reading (and one to avoid)
Happy New Year, readers. And since you are readers, I thought I would give you the New Year’s gift of a list of my favourite books of 2023. (You will…