Category: Control
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Justice Sotomayor Ain’t Having the SCOTUS Ruling that Extends the Police State
One by one, [Justice Sotomayor] ran through instances of a Supreme Court all too willing to grant police more power to detain, arrest and search citizens — based on pretextual reasons, the way they look, or even suspicion that they had broken a law that doesn’t exist. She underscored that all bets…
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Republicans cannot even be honest about what happened in Orlando
If you are about to defend Republicans in this country on their anti-LGBTQ platform, please refrain from the “Hate the sin, love the sinner” bullshit and the “family values” poppycock. If you think Republican words and actions do not add fire to the biases experienced by LGBTQ, you simply refuse to take seriously…
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Quiet and meditation as pedagogy
In 2007, James Dierke, then the principal of the Visitacion Valley Middle School in a troubled neighborhood in San Francisco, was determined to improve both the quality of education and student behavior in his school. He adopted a system called the Quiet Time Program, developed by the David Lynch Foundation…
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The Donald as unifier
Here’s what Donald Trump is not: He is not us. He is not all of us. He is not the best of us. He is not inevitable. Let us take Trump at his word. Let him be our Unifier. Source: Let Donald Trump be our unifier | Eve Ensler |…
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Expulsion of the White Working Class
This exemplifies how the superstructure dominates every aspect of our lives. The neoliberal policies of the two plutocratic parties, Democrat and Republican, keep folks separated along racial lines so that the bottom 50% of citizens will not communicate with each other. Neoliberalism succeeds when the majority of the working class–white workers…
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Why Some Societies Practiced Ritual Human Sacrifice – The New York Times
Nice to see that neoliberal doctrines of global financial capitalism in the society of control keep alive at least one grand old tradition from our forebears: sacrificing lives to ensure social stratification. [A] new study published Monday in Nature revisits the ancient practice [of human sacrifice] to look for fresh insights… scientists…
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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 the says, “Look-come on-the folks want to vote for me…
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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 news? It’s like Santa Claus – all that so-called supernatural…
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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.” There I am finishing the last bit of my tasty…
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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 global protests, “The current surge of protests is more global than…
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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] rather than accept that Millennials, like most people, have much,…
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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 night. While I am still uneasy with all politics, Sanders…
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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, and whether Robert Anton Wilson is a philosopher or a…
CALL ME MAGGIE 
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