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#Trumpdacity
I mean, folks are still going to be voting for this schmuck because his populism completely outstrips the need to tell anything even resembling the truth. This speech basically performs a hearty fuck-you to the world, a dance of shameless audacity… Continue reading
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Global climate change, local hard choices
“Development” multiplies desires and transforms them into needs. But we are the ones who are under-developed – spiritually shallow, debilitated by needs, distracted by things. I wonder about climate change and children. How and when to tell them the bad… Continue reading
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eating oats
Well… I need to write something. Odd that I do not care to write but can be spurred by watching the beginning of a film—Mr. Holmes—after eating a bowl of steel cut Irish oats… suddenly this desire to “record something.”… Continue reading
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Is the age of globalization also a new era for protests?
A spate of studies and meta-analysis in recent years depict how large-scale citizen mobilisations have been intensifying for more than a decade, reaching a new peak in the past five years. According to the conclusion of an extensive study examining the complexities of… Continue reading
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Millennial diversity of interest and opinion
It’s theoretically possible to… support an overall tax cut that raises taxes on the rich too. But it’s worth questioning the value of trying to force these answers into a coherent political framework [as the poll talked about here does]… Continue reading
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Millennials, Struggle, and Bernie
Corey Robin does an excellent response to a piece by Alexandra Schwartz at the New Yorker concerning the hope millennials find in Bernie Sanders. I want to thank my buddy-friend-guy Chris for talking over these things with me last… Continue reading
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Man Bites Dogma – A RAW Conversation
He’s been called a cult figure to various lunatic fringe groups, Tom Robbins calls him “a dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness,” he calls himself an iconoclastic comedian,… Continue reading
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Nootropics or Smart Drugs
Important caveat for those thinking smart drugs can make a person more intelligent: Like any performance enhancer, there has to be a core level of intelligence or athleticism to be augmented. Welcome to the world of nootropics, or smart drugs.… Continue reading
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Sufficiency Economy
Everyone has been affected by the #economiccrisis and some of us know folks who are still reeling from how banks played dice with our futures. If you have an hour, you might want to learn a little about how Buddhist’s… Continue reading
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Academia as mechanical productivity
like the Whatever Etc page if you use Facebook. It is amazing how the machinery of academia has been turned on by someone and just left running… Like a Charlie… Posted by Whatever Etc. on Friday, January 22, 2016 Continue reading
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Public memory, propaganda, and ethics
My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was… Continue reading
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Memories without rememberers
Film by Alba Mora and Anna Sanmartí about the disappearing shamanic rituals of the Lanjia Sora Tribe after the arrival of the Christian missionaries in eastern India. Continue reading
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The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Happy birthday RAW! If you have about 90 minutes to spare, you would learn a great deal from watching this little documentary. Continue reading
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The richest 62
There are 62 super-billionaires at the top of the top of the 1% who are wealthier than half of all other people combined. Leading figures from Pope Francis to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, have called for… Continue reading
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Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.… Continue reading
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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money. Source: Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons Continue reading
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