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Excerpt from Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom
On the correlating rise of capitalism and individualism: “All human relationships were poisoned by the fierce life-and-death struggle for the maintenance of power and wealth. Solidarity with one’s fellow men...
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On Abstaining from Asceticism: A Repost from scifi.global
I want to return to my post, “Solarpunk and Vestiges of the Ascetic.” My primary point, which I believe I failed to communicate is the suffering required to attain the...
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A Note on Open Access
I recently came across a text, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety, that like far too many scholarly texts is far overpriced. The book is $180 and the eBook is...
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A Note: Lose Your Career Building Skills as a Practice of Degrowth
Degrowth has blossomed into a lively topic. Depending on where you are hearing about it, you may or may not be influenced in positive ways. Well, this post is not...
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Capitalism and Violence-Customs
There is the potential movement today for even the brightest types of democracies to normalize into a hybrid totalitarian, democracy-lite, formational violence. Of course, whether these institutions were ever true...
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A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations
The world population wonders how people will continue to aspire to create great things and embark on great achievements without money. It is rather embarrassing to be a human when...
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Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World
Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all...
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Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts
I. In Hortense J. Spillers essay, “Notes on an Alternative Model – Neither/Nor,” from Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, she surveys William Faulkner in...
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Complaint Memo: Star Trek and Climate Change – Ways to Improve
These are just a few short notes that I already made elsewhere. Given time I will elaborate on them more completely, perhaps even individually, but I thought I should post...