The “Ripening Beast” Has Left the Building: RIP David Hickey
March 28, 2022
The smartest guy in the room was also the biggest smartass. Harvard and Yale — both places he taught at – were the kind of clubs he wasn’t sure he wanted to belong to. He accepted a MacArthur “genius” grant while remaining deeply suspicious of the word. Nothing in life matters more than beauty, he insisted — even while scarfing hamburgers and living in Vegas. He pissed off people on both ends of the political spectrum, calling himself, at various times, a “bleeding heart libertarian,” and an “egalitarian elitist.” He said what it wasn’t safe to say until everyone else was saying it too (or at least thinking it).
Read articleRead articleThink Big, Graeber's History of Humanity!
March 25, 2022
David Graeber didn’t live to see the fruits of his decade-long labor: the anthropologist, anarchist and Occupy Wall Street kickstarter died suddenly last year. It fell to his co-author, the archaeologist David Wengrow, to finish their collaborative tour-de-force and get it out into a world right when the world needs it most.
Read articleRead articleThe Catalytic Moment of Truth
March 22, 2022
Five years ago, as survivor after survivor of sexual abuse stepped forward, a phenomenon bloomed in front of everyone’s eyes. A random cop in Minneapolis does something heinous and gets caught by chance — and the people are like, how much of this shit is happening under the radar?
Read articleRead articleOpting Out: Antiwork and the Great Resignation
March 7, 2022
Americans quit their jobs this summer at rate never seen before. Gen Z led the charge. The children of Occupy Wall Street — footsoldiers of the Third Force — went full Johnny Paycheck on their crappy minimum-wage employment.
Read articleRead articleGEN Z — Will You Chart a New Course?
February 28, 2022
Gen Z is our last best hope for a sustainable future, but can they muster the gumption to chart a new course for humanity?
Read articleRead articleDamage to Your Soul?
February 3, 2022
What's the real cost of our smartphone addiction? Study after study has shown that using Facebook all the time makes people feel moody, anxious, and depressed. And that's just the start.
Read articleRead articleWhy are you so anxious all the time?
January 31, 2022
Social media platforms are trapping us in Skinner boxes. We keep swiping up and up, hoping for some connection to appear in notification-red that gives us a hit of temporary dopamine. But that endless loop is no accident — we're addicts by design.
Read articleRead articleCold Peace
January 27, 2022
After more than 70 years of diplomatic non-recognition, last year the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco all joined Egypt and Jordan in “normalizing” ties with Israel.
Read articleRead articleGEN Z — Will You Stop Eating Animals?
January 26, 2022
Animal flesh is an environmentally disastrous source of protein. And factory farming is responsible for more suffering than anything else we humans do. Can Gen Z kick the habit?
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Every Country is a Living Organism
January 26, 2022
How do you keep countries alive — fed, secure, self-sustaining? Call it “biopolitics.” Every country is a living body and We the People are its life force. Which means constitutions must be living documents.
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Defund Pentagon
January 25, 2022
America still has a staggering 750 military bases in some 80 countries, truly an empire on which the sun never sets.
Read articleRead articleSpirit of '68
January 19, 2022
First students, then workers, professors, nurses, doctors, bus drivers and a piecemeal league of artists, anarchists, and Enragés took to the streets, erected barricades, fought with police, occupied offices, factories, dockyards, railway depots, theaters and university campuses, sang songs, issued manifestos, sprayed slogans like “Live Without Dead Time” and “Down with the Spectacular-Commodity Culture” all over Paris, shaking the established order to its roots.
Read articleRead articleThe Solution Emerges (PT. 2)
December 2, 2021
The new accounting starts with the little stuff: plastic bags, coffee cups, paper napkins.
Read articleRead articleHumanity’s Moment of Truth (PT. 10)
December 1, 2021
The human race is now a Pachinko ball tumbling through the machine. There is simply no predicting the outcome.
Read articleRead articleIs True Cost a Pipedream? (PT. 9)
December 1, 2021
“True Cost? Great idea! But it’s never gonna work.” That’s what they’ll all say.
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