Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/cultivate-a-habit-of-small-acts-of-sedition ❖ It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo. It's a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and worse.The
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/our-entire-civilization-is-structured-around-keeping-us-from-realizing-we-can-do-this ❖Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The video footage coming out of Sri Lanka right now
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/revolution-awakening-and-leaving-abusive-relationships-all-happen-in-unexpected-ways ❖ People don't generally leave abusive relationships in egoically satisfying, Hollywood-friendly ways.I point this out because those of us who are watching the people's abusive relationship with predatory power structures and hoping for revolutionary change often tend to envision the
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/well-either-rise-as-a-collective-or-perish-as-individuals ❖ Everyone who's freaking out about wokeness and identity politics can relax. Liberals are 100 percent certain to get bored with that schtick and forget all about it without having helped a single member of any minority or marginalized group.
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/you-can-never-do-everything-but-you-can-always-do-something ❖ Whenever I talk about the fact that our world is ruled by psychopaths who have our species on a trajectory toward annihilation via climate collapse or nuclear war, I get people asking the very understandable question, "What can we
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/rent-is-a-scam ❖ A poor person in the US has to bend over backwards and degrade themselves in all sorts of official and unofficial ways for a few bucks in welfare, but the Pentagon can spend trillions on a 20-year war that
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/theyre-normalizing-robot-police-by-calling-them-dogs ❖ Hawaii police are defending their use of pandemic relief funds for a robotic "police dog" made by Boston Dynamics which scans homeless people's eyes to see if they have a fever."If you’re homeless and looking for temporary shelter in
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/a-race-between-revolution-and-robotics ❖ Basically we're looking at a race to see if the deterioration of material conditions inherent in capitalism leads to mass-scale revolution before the plutocrats have the technological and legal ability to roll out robot and drone security forces. ❖ We're fed
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/consciousness-and-dysfunction-cannot-coexist ❖ If you are reading this, it's likely the result of a long and ongoing process where at some point you got very curious about what's going on in the world and managed to punch through the fog of mass
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/our-rulers-have-all-the-power-and-none-of-the-responsibility ❖ As the world burns, as ecosystems die off, as the insects vanish, as the forests disappear, as soil becomes rapidly less fertile, as extinction takes over, as the oceans gasp for air and become lifeless deserts while continents of plastic form in