Attending to the sacred
This is the formidable challenge of our times – to create limits and localism while not creating arbitrary rules of social exclusion.
Society
Too Legit to Quit: Rethinking Legitimacy of Territorial Claims
Eradicating colonization is not a matter of granting sovereignty to native populations, it is a matter of eradicating the right to exclude that comes with European sovereignty, getting rid of legitimate territorial claims altogether.
Climate Politics: The View from Washington (3/12/24)
Will the passage of this current year’s appropriations be enough to convince voters in swing districts that Republicans can govern? That’s yet to be seen.
No, it’s not the Anthropocene
Earth’s new regime, once it has stabilized, will surely be classifiable as a new geological epoch—but currently it’s too soon to name it. We’re still in the midst of the transitory event that is driving the end of the Holocene and the beginning of something else.
Ageing and the climate crisis
The intersection between climate change and an ageing population is not a pretty picture, but every crisis has the potential to generate change.
The Game of Life
Whatever the case, I will continue to play the role it seems I am set out to play, and hope that I happen to be on the “right side of history.” In the game of life, the only way to know is to keep playing.
Crazy Town 79. Escape Routes: Let’s Get the F**k out of Crazy Town
Escape Routes! That’s the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We’re exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maintain their sense of humor while escaping fatalism and finding meaningful ways to avoid collapse.
How to start a mutual aid network
While the dominant U.S. economic system operates on this principle of persistent financial coercion, there is (and always have been) an alternative way to organize individuals into collectives providing essential services, without the need for coercion: mutual aid networks.
Politics (Sometimes it is necessary to wander)
We have forgotten that every politics is an ethos. We have bought the lie that all things are public or private.
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
If we’re going to enjoy the benefits of history, behavior in the contemporary West should not be isolated or considered distinct from the rest.
Dweller-managed architecture as the basis of democratic and ecological urbanism
According to the underlying form of social organization, architecture can promote individualist lifestyles, servitude, submission, or it can encourage communal solidarity, freedom, and dignity.
The Great Unwinding: The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
This thrusting of tens of millions of Americans out of the national healthcare system at a moment when healthcare outfits, pharmaceutical companies, and health insurance corporations are making record profits has been termed “the great unwinding.” And it couldn’t be more cruelly ironic.
