Tag Archive | "economic crisis"
Feeding at the trough of television
Joe Bageant's recent piece, Escape from the Zombie Food Court, is a classic. He clearly and concisely dismisses the notion that our lives are lived in anything resembling freedom. The corporate media and their primary brainwashing device, television, have taken care of that.
Continue reading...Illegitimi non carborundum
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Teaching? I'm doing the best work of my life. Scholarship? Likewise. Outreach? Ditto. Obviously, it's time for me to move along.
Continue reading...Community, community, community
Monday, March 30, 2009
As we pass from the industrial age to the post-carbon era, the mantra of real-estate agents comes to mind. But the important factor less "location, location, location" than "community, community, community." The latter can be created in any location. Well, except for those locations the United States bombs into the stone age. It's tough to build community when the U.S. military is carpet-bombing the 'hood.
Continue reading...Are we there yet?
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
In a classic case of better late than never, an international panel of scientists has warned that we've passed the global-change tipping point. Actually, in this case, it's not better late than never: it's so late, it might as well be never.
Continue reading...Adventures at the mud hut: an overdue update
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Prophet of Doom is a tough sell, as it always has been. Nobody appreciates a prophet in his own time, I suppose. On the other hand, there's no need for a prophet in these times: the newspapers are filled with far more economic doom than I can keep up with, much less write about. So this post will focus on my personal approach to an economy rigged to fail.
Continue reading...The prototypical disaster
Thursday, February 5, 2009
In the final pages of Earth Abides, Stewart gives us great hope. He envisions the day civilized humans will give way to worldly humans, abandoning dominance and arrogance for coexistence and humility. He imagines humans living with the world, instead of apart from it. He imagines us becoming part of nature, so that, when nature bats last, we'll still be on the planetary stage
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
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