Appendix to Recent Words and Deeds, June 2019
A new paradigm is possible. Trust the instincts that lead to empathetic awareness, that branch understanding. Why not trust our neighbors, our friends, our family? We’re gonna need it, now and when shifting gears.
Read MoreAmerican Update: A Record (in progress)
The insects are dying something fierce. You don’t need pesticides anymore; they are already dead. It’s not going to “maybe happen tomorrow”, it’s happening now. Can confirm personally, as a guy who hikes...
Read MoreRanting Strativarius – March 2019
I’ve been getting a lot of emails from “Variety”, and such a thing seems to “make sense”. Or cents, or scents, and/or across the board. I read the newspaper, the news magazines, the...
Read MoreTransmuting the Immutable
Thousands of choices, of changes, of courses, infinite variety and ever-regenerating LIFE! Live it strong, live it well, live to the utmost. I am doing my best to follow that advice.
Read MoreAn American in Anarchia, Part II
We met at the grocery store, the American, the Anarchist, and the Beauty. We picked the ripest tomatoes, three different types of meats, olive oils, bottles of wine. In the checkout, I gave him cash for my share,...
Read MoreA Letter Concerning Minimum Wage (with calculations)
This is an increase in the minimum wage. If we’d like to keep our governmental functions and stimulate the economy, simultaneously, it’s a winner. When you pay your workers enough to buy their own work, you make equity, as Henry Ford paid his employees enough to buy their own vehicles.
Read MoreEnshrining the Racially-Ignorant
The ultimate truth of fascism and xenophobia is this: it is ultimately self-defeating. Any ideology that excludes “the other” for “one’s own”, and attempts to enforce this, is destined to fail. It will find itself gone, destroyed, and annihilated, for the simple statistical fact that there are more “other” than there are “one’s own”.
Read MoreA Confession: Electrical Infrastructure, Indebted Servitude, the Power of People, and Personal Culpability
Is such a confession enough to assuage guilt? Is this “practicality”, this requirement for monetary compensation, though so short term, sufficient justification for continued deaths overseas, the perpetual pollution of our water, and the poisoning of our land?
Read MoreOrlando’s Lament
The perpetrator is a product of our society.
And our society is anti-intelligence, anti-prosperity, and anti-life.
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