Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/this-civilization-is-mentally-ill ❖ It's time for another US presidential race where populist factions on both sides spend a few months angrily decrying the establishment before voting for candidates in the general election who will fully serve that same
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-word-presstitute-is-insulting-to-sex-workers ❖ Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO.Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship.Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda.Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy.Defending Europe from Russia by bombing European pipelines. ❖ Twitter has dropped its
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/there-is-always-hope-and-there ❖ I often hear talk of how depressing it is to learn the truth about what's really going on in our society and in our world, including in the comments sections of the places my own writings appear. I'm always
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/there-are-no-innocent-americans ❖ If the logic that "there are no innocent Russians" because the Russian people have a moral obligation to overthrow their warmongering government were evenly applied, it would also apply to Americans. Even more so, really, since their government is
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/you-are-home ❖ It can be hard to feel your roots as a westerner.Many of us live in countries built on relatively recent colonization by Europeans, so our ancestral connection to the land only goes back a few generations. Our spirituality is
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/weve-been-dominated-by-narrative-control-since-the-dawn-of-civilization ❖ The science of modern propaganda arguably got its start over a century ago during World War I when a young Edward Bernays was recruited to help sell the conflict to a reluctant American populace, after which he took what he'd
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/growing-up-means-extracting-the-beliefs-that-were-placed-in-your-head-by-others ❖ Most people never grow up. Not really.Growing up means maturing. It means becoming independent. It means developing into your own person and standing on your own two feet.Few people really do this. Because few people ever get around to
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/opposing-war-is-the-first-step ❖ Forcefully opposing the warmongering and imperialism of your rulers is the very first step toward political morality. It's not the only step, but it is the first step, because if you haven't taken that step then no other ostensibly
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/robbing-the-global-south-then-scorning-its-poverty ❖ Michael Parenti has said that "Poor countries are not 'under-developed', they are over-exploited." The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations,