Nov 6War of Cousins“it is a serious thing — just to be alive — on this fresh morning — in a broken world.” — Mary Oliver — I think we are all connected through what Carl Jung called the “collective unconscious” and that through that we are all subconsciously feeling the human anguish and pain of the inhumanity, the mass murder of innocents, now occurring in the world. …War6 min readWar6 min read
Oct 21A Biblical Approach to Economic Justice“Embrace an unapologetic love of justice!” Cornell West I am not a Biblical scholar, but I think many of us realize that the United States needs a moral leader badly, one who can inspire us to a spiritual commitment to justice. We need moral leadership to deal with all the…Money8 min readMoney8 min read
Oct 9The behavioral crisis driving ecological overshoot.Barbara Williams is the activist voice of the Anti-Growth Alliance from the UK. Her work is shared with organizations who share the aspiration to eliminate global ecological overshoot and has written much on the subject. Recently she shared this article World scientists’ warning: The behavioral crisis driving ecological overshoot. “…Money3 min readMoney3 min read
Oct 3How to Create a Caring CultureThis is a response to a conversation series between Charles Eisenstein and Benjamin Life are having on this subject, On “Creating” Culture. My comment got too long to put in the comment section so I thought I would just publish it as an article and share the link with them. …Money9 min readMoney9 min read
Aug 20BARBIE and the Natural Economic OrderI just read this great review by Ellie Griffin of the Barbie movie, (spoiler alert) as well as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 utopian novel, Herland, and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, well worth reading. Herland describes a 2000-year-old isolated and prosperous civilization comprised entirely of women who lost all their men…Money11 min readMoney11 min read
Aug 10Dick-taters and Common-tatersWe Need Agi-taters not Spec-taters Democrats are concerned about Trump winning the election again believing that he seeks to be a dictator, saying that “Dictators rely on propaganda, silencing the free press, manipulating laws and political positions.” I also understand the frustration people have with the government we have and…Politics6 min readPolitics6 min read
Jul 14Greens: Spoiling the Spoiled“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Greens are seen by the democrats as a spoiler but as Ralph Nader pointed out, the current system is already a rotten spoiled mess, how can it be any more spoiled? It is corrupt beyond…Money5 min readMoney5 min read
Jul 13…ng will improve, and the dismal outlook isn't unrealistic hysteria. The future isn't promising, and hopes and prayers aren't a rescue plan. Poverty continually worsens, infrastructure upgrades are overdue, essential items are unaffordable,…The Long, Miserable Descent81916Corinne NitaINDEED. Hopes and prayers are wasted unless you have a rescue plan, then the hopes and prayers are…INDEED. Hopes and prayers are wasted unless you have a rescue plan, then the hopes and prayers are for that plan to succeed. You are right that the people are alienated from government, as well as each other and the natural world. …1 min read1 min read
May 29Texas Gold MoneyChallenging the system? Is Texas unaware that Libya, the most advanced nation in Africa, was destroyed and Qaddafi murdered because he proposed a gold-backed money system for Africa? Challenges to the dominant monetary system are often met with overwhelming force. …Money4 min readMoney4 min read
May 19Has Modernity Expired?Jeremy Lent, Author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, recently writes that modernity has expired, and asks, what comes next? Wait, are we no longer modern? Modernity means “a modern way of thinking” so it seems because thinking would change with the times so would modernity. Some…Culture5 min readCulture5 min read
