Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/you-dont-have-to-choose-between-happiness-and-being-informed ❖ I write about some dark, dark things in this space, and it's common to receive expressions of despair in response to the subjects I focus on.This is perfectly understandable. Not only is our world hurtling
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/look-with-both-eyes ❖ Years ago I watched a video clip by a philosopher named Ken Wilber that I still find myself referencing from time to time. In it, Wilber is asked about the plight of our world and
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-power-serving-myth-that-anti-war-protests-make-no-difference ❖ Thousands of people from across the political spectrum gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC to protest US militarism, proxy warfare and nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine on Sunday.I've been seeing some people try to downplay the numbers on
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/i-dont-want-a-sci-fi-future ❖ I don't desire a future for humanity like the ones imagined by our culturally designated future-imaginers. I don't want humans living in Elon Musk Mars colonies or Jeff Bezos space cylinders. I don't want us to fly out into
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/thoughts-that-should-probably ❖ I wonder if my own government is being truthful about its actions in that part of the world?I wonder if my own government is in the wrong on this issue?I wonder if the news media are telling the truth
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/untitled-9 ❖ Once upon a time there was born a baby universe.Like most babies, it didn't have a lot going on for itself at first. It existed as nothing but a plasmic ocean of energy roaring outward from its point of
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/nothings-more-important-than-avoiding-nuclear-war ❖ Avoiding nuclear war is the single most important agenda in the world. The single most important agenda in history. It is more important than your political faction. It is more important than how Vladimir Putin makes your feelings feel.
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/this-would-be-a-wise-stopping-point-for-this-war ❖ At the risk of upsetting the entire internet, the annexation of those four Ukrainian territories seems like a great time to end this war to me. Does anyone honestly believe a significant percentage of the people who live there
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/in-this-disaster-we-are-all-ultimately-innocent ❖ Whenever I talk about the way our species is sliding toward annihilation via nuclear armageddon or environmental disaster I always get a few people saying something along the lines of, "Good, humans are horrible. The planet will be better
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/capitalism-has-no-solution-to-ecocide ❖ "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible get to just stay in power indefinitely and suffer no meaningful consequences of any kind." ~ John F Kennedy (paraphrased) ❖ Ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable. No possible iteration of capitalism can