Zen Buddhism is full of stories about practitioners staring death in the face in order to cut through their mental habits and force a direct confrontation with the fundamental matter. Monks doing zazen on a cliff's edge to keep themselves alert, rōshis telling frustrated students
In a solid new article titled "Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor" on the cross-platform silencing of The New York Post's publication of Hunter Biden's emails, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald writes the following: That is always how it will
Humanity will continue along its self-destructive trajectory until the masses use the power of their numbers to force real change. Humanity will not use the power of its numbers to force real change as long as it's being successfully propagandized not to do so. The
The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating day making it clearer than the day before that what we are watching is nothing other than a staged performance by the US and UK governments to explain why it's okay for
To oppose power is to set yourself on a collision course with despair.You set out, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, charging full speed at the man all set to overthrow the status quo, and then what happens?You splat headfirst into a solid steel wall.Your plans fail.Your
Do you want to win this thing? Actually win it?By that I mean, do you actually want to create a healthy world instead of a world where we are ruled by lying, murderous, warmongering, oppressive, ecocidal, omnicidal sociopaths? Is that something you truly, deeply want?It's
Narrative is crumbling. It's difficult to understand what's going on in the world.It's difficult to understand what's going on in the world because powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what's going on in the world.Powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what's going on in
QAnon is one of the most annoying things on Twitter and its followers are morons. And, also, it is dangerous and unacceptable that monopolistic Silicon Valley tech plutocrats are exerting more and more control over human communication.I criticize QAnon constantly and find its acolytes intensely
If I had to put a label on my politics and I was being 100 percent straightforward about it I'd probably call myself a "satori populist" or something. I believe humanity wins by awakening from its dysfunctional relationship with mental narrative and moving into enlightened
There are no moderate, mainstream centrists in the US-centralized empire. They do not exist.It's not that moderate, mainstream centrism is an inherently impossible position. In a healthy world, that's exactly what the predominant worldview would be. But we do not live in a healthy world.There