“Rude music,” empathy, and the case for localism
If we want a future different from the one now bearing down on us with a full load of menace, we must fight for it as localists.
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Review: The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer
I found Dennis Mombauer’s supernatural eco-novella The House of Drought to be both captivating and confusing.
Beware the Phalse Prophets: Reflections of a Recovering Taxonomist
If I were to meet in person with the Phalse Prophet specimens I encountered in my research, I’d suggest that they take a long, long hike to a distant mountain top.
Jodi Archambault: “Relationships, Reciprocity and Resiliency”
On this episode, Jodi Archambault, a member of the Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota tribes, joins the podcast to share her experiences as an activist, government official, and someone who has lived amidst many cultures.
Tough Times for Wandering Luddites
But there’s at least one other important thing that gets me out on the rails. In a way that no other kind of transportation does, trainhopping satisfies my Luddite sensibilities.
Columbia Gorge musings: Vision rising from place
Pay attention to context, sight tells me. Design our society, lives and communities within the ecological framework, and we will prosper, maybe even find some genuinely founded happiness in this life.
Deadly train collision in Greece reveals the dysfunctionality of State and capitalism – time for self-management
A major social change is urgently needed, one based on total political equality and direct participation, that requires moving beyond statecraft and capitalism
We are all modern now
We can salvage the good things that modernity has brought that can be taken with us. We can mourn the good things that we will lose.
On the Other Side of Separation: Individual and Collective Steps Towards a Post-Patriarchal Way of Living
I offer, here, a feminist vision of a global maternal gift economy and describe pathways to moving towards it from exactly where we currently are, both collectively and individually.
Fabricating our future
Throughout human history we have faced many challenges, but the greatest danger of social disintegration was when lies and disinformation were accepted over the truth.
The supersedure state revisited
Supersedure situations in which the zombie state fails to deliver welfare locally and people have to start innovating their own local solutions can take many forms and by their nature are always going to be locally specific and deeply contextual.
Nina Simons: “Dancing With Contradictions – A Systems View”
On this episode, author and social entrepreneur Nina Simons reminds us that in a fact driven culture, sometimes it’s important to return to the emotional, physical, and even spiritual in order to balance the conversation.
