Anti-establishment movements are a mess. Whether they're left-wing or right-wing, whether they're statist or anarchist, whether they're organized or decentralized, whether they place emphasis on official or unofficial narratives, any circle of people who are interested in opposing the status quo on a deep, meaningful
Bring a deep, enthusiastic "yes" to whatever feels like the center of your experience right now. Not with your thoughts, but with your feelings.Go on. Try it. You can't do it wrong.If you have a thought rattling around in your head that's taking up a
Outlets like MSNBC and Politico have been excitedly running headlines titled "The military-industrial complex is now run by women" and "How women took over the military-industrial complex". Apparently four of America's five top defense contractors are now women, whose names I will not bother to learn
This is just a post to let the folks on my mailing list know I'll be taking a holiday until January 1st (Jan 2nd in Australia); won't be writing anything unless they try to nab Assange from the embassy or something. Thank you all so
Sustainable Human has once again made an amazing video from the text of one of my articles, narrated by myself, and I'm thrilled with how it's turned out. It's really beautiful and I encourage you to watch and share.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfRhmvIHgmY YouTube link Facebook link
In vulnerable states, like when a bird meets my gaze or after a good knife fight, I will sometimes admit to being a materialist, with the small caveat that I don’t know what material is. I know what time it is, but only when it’s the same time as the broken clock in
The problem isn't just that we are ruled by tyrants, it's that our minds are full of propaganda and cultural mind viruses which cause us to consent to it. Russophobia and an uncritical emphasis on Trump has been used to scaremonger an annoyingly large percentage of
Why do mainstream media reporters within ostensibly free democracies act just like state media propagandists? Why are they so reliably pro-establishment, all throughout every mainstream outlet? Why do they so consistently marginalize any idea that doesn't fit within the extremely narrow Overton window of acceptable
Every so often I like to write an article describing exactly what I'm about in the interests of transparency, and for the benefit of any new followers who aren't quite sure what they're looking at here. It's a good exercise for me because it allows
"To those three soldiers who got killed in Afghanistan the other day," said Ian. "They died fightin' for our freedom.""Freedom isn't free," Bill solemnly declared as the men raised their glasses and drank."That's bullshit," Steve mumbled into his glass."Aww, come on," said Bill."Alright, see this