I'm taking a few days off from writing and social media to do some personal inventory and think hard about how I can take this weird project of mine to the next level. I've asked the hive mind for help gathering ideas and information in
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled "Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement". The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name
There are snakes that eat birds, and there are birds that eat snakes.There are lives that serve death, and there are deaths that serve life.Life spurts out skeletons like a gardener plants tomato stakes, and on them we drape our blood tubes and gut tubes. Life spurts out skulls
You run into a lot of despair in this line of work. The more you learn about the mechanisms of power, the more hopeless things seem at first glance.The political system is totally locked down, with anyone who tries to upend the status quo being
Our weapons will be manufactured by corporations that have pansexual CEOs and Muslim shareholders.The bombers will be emblazoned with rainbow flags and flown by empowered women of all colors who will scream "YAAASSS QUEEN!" as the mushroom clouds arise.The desert sand will turn to glass in the blasts, and
Well hot damn, we've lost a Koch brother! Do your happy dance, call out the munchkins and let your voice shake the heavens with a rousing rendition of "Ding-dong the oligarch is dead!"David Koch, the younger of the two plutocratic faux-libertarian powerhouses who were until
I talk about the power of self-enquiry a fair bit in my musings about enlightenment and human consciousness, so I thought it might be good to tap out a simple how-to on the subject in case anyone finds it useful.Self-enquiry, or self-inquiry, is a practice
Establishment Democrats have been flipping out about Susan Sarandon on Twitter. Again. In 2019.I won't re-hash the vapid origins of the drama here; if you want you can read about it here. Suffice to say that as usual it originated with Neera Tanden, the Center
It's rare to get a billionaire to share their grand plans for the future, which is weird because billionaires pretty much rule the world. Whenever they do, though, it's always something incredibly sociopathic, like replacing all jobs with billionaire-owned automation/AI and giving people a Universal
It's a trip how much mental energy people pour into arguments about world affairs while devoting almost none to the way their understanding and perception of those affairs is happening.People will happily argue day in and day out about what political ideology is most correct