Meandering home

Looking for a rapper

we will make heard the voices of the exploited whose land and livelihood is being destroyed but who don't have the dollars to fight the white collars we will make heard the voice of the suffering grasses don't mistake me for a gangsta rapper or some fake flashy fast car leper stuck in his McMansion ...

29 September, 2013

ecocide, gangsta rapper, indigenous, planet, rap, rapper, resistance, Turtle Island

Activism, Poetry

Planning book to help save the world. Got ideas?

Lately, I was reading "Eaarth" by Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, and enjoyed it a lot. It accurately describes our predicament, as a society that has breached the safe limits of carbon in our atmosphere. It's key proposal, to take to local solutions, is something I completely underwrite. At some points of the book ...

10 June, 2013

book, capitalism, publication, resistance, solidarity

Activism

Mixed revolutionary ramblings

Every day now I become more averse to the system. I observe how my own mind struggles, and how it always shouts the word "local" in both my ears as the key to a solution. A local community is larger than a Greek oikos (etymological origin of the word economy) or household, but smaller than ...

8 May, 2013

capitalism, resistance, solidarity

Activism

Ecobook Introduction (Draft)

Below is a draft of the introduction to a collaborative e-book (e.co.book) that I instigated on Facebook. This needs work, but I shared it here for the purpose of inviting constructive criticism. Over the last few years, many of us have been active on the Internet sharing information about the damage that the current system ...

26 March, 2013

appropriate technology experts, collaborative e-book, collapse, e-book, e.co.book, Earthship, ecosystem, Environment, greenhouse gas emissions, Keystone pipeline, resistance, Social philosophy, Sustainable building

Activism

Infinite gross, revisited

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that we cannot grow the material economy indefinitely on a finite planet.* Such growth however, is exactly what is needed to keep the economic system from falling apart, as many studies have shown.**

What about the "service economy"? Could it be the solution to grow an economy indefinitely? Of ...

20 January, 2013

capitalism, David Harvey, end:civ, endgame, resistance, Tim Jackson

Activism

The Decade of Inertia

Obama was perhaps catapulted into power by nifty social media outreach and a moderately credible promise of change we can believe in. When I look at the news, I don't believe in " real change" any more. Isn't the 'outcome' of climate conferences, such as those in Rio and Doha, always the same: empty promises ...

16 December, 2012

climate change, inertia, Korea, Morsi, Obama, Palestine, resistance

Essays

Very Bad vs Downright Catastrophic Climate Change

Image courtesy of realclimate.orgOn this blog I find myself often describing the psychological features of our climatic predicament. I mean, we know the facts, people are working around the clock to get the facts straight, and have succeeded in spite of the heavy lobby in favor of 'the economy' and against the facts. You can ...

12 December, 2012

350.org, activism, Bill McKibben, catastrophic, climate change, James Hansen, realclimate, resistance

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Safehouses against capitalism

I'm penning these words while the election in the US is underway. Both candidates seem to give absolute priority to 'repairing the economy', to creating jobs, install the necessary pipelines, wage the necessary wars and destroy the necessary wildlife sanctuaries to keep gas conveniently low at the pump. This is insane and disgusting. What are ...

6 November, 2012

alternative, capitalism, economy, fighting back, Jensen, resistance, safehouse

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Bullying!

Bullying! that's the solution. All we need is thousands of anonymous people following the decision makers of the big corporations (Monsanto, DOW, Bayer, Pfizer, Shell, Chevron, Conoco, Vale, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, BP, Coca Cola, Nestle, Apple, Samsung, Goldman Sachs, ...) everywhere they go. Make graffiti, pee in their gardens, block their garages and lawns, ...

24 October, 2012

bullying, corporations, resistance, wallstreet

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Best of humanity

"This is not a vacation, gentlemen" sounded the speaker of the space shuttle. A group of five distinguished white males looked at each other but didn't seem the least uncomfortable. "You have been democratically elected because you are the most promising individuals to continue humankind. We the people have voted for you. Don't let us ...

14 October, 2012

bankers, Barclays, FED, parody, Paulson, resistance, Rothschild, saturn, Tillerson

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The real truth of infinite growth

Extinguish everyone that is not us, everything that is not human, let every organism go extinct, with the exception of us, homo sapiens, let the mammals die, the reptiles, the bees, the plankton - never mind our primitive ancestors once were dependent on them for their survival. We won't be. We will have machines ...

29 September, 2012

infinite growth, irony, otherness, parody, resistance

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Idea of Do NOT consume

I did it. I have alluded to the greatest possible crime against "the Economy". I have created a facebook page entitled "do not consume" on which I post a prohibition sign with the picture of a consumer item. It is intended to be a repetitive, mind-numbing message in exactly the same way the big ...

18 September, 2012

consumer society, Consumerism, corporations, do not consume, resistance

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The assassination speech

The president prepared a speech, but never gave it. His advisers told him that giving this speech would be "unwise with respect his security situation". In plain English: they were afraid it might get him killed.
Instead, he entrusted me the manuscript to "do the right thing". I don't know exactly what he meant by that, ...

14 September, 2012

America, Dreamerica, idealism, permaculture, president, resistance, speech, wikileaks

Essays, Laughs

What is needed?

Some call it the greed at the heart of the capitalist system, others call it the impossibility of infinite profit on a finite planet, still others call it the dead-urge of our entire industrial civilization. What we can - and should - all agree on, is that we are heading towards the biggest disaster in the ...

11 August, 2012

debris, dismantle, dream, eco-village, permaculture, resistance

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Peep!

I saw a brilliant movie the other day. It featured a highly sophisticated critique of both the prevailing intellectualism and the corporately hijacked political elite. Its protagonists presented in part woolly, but mostly toothy arguments supporting the view that our system is undeniably adrift and we are headed for imminent disaster.

The name of the movie ...

26 July, 2012

Continental Drift, Eddie, Film, Ice Age, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Jensen, List of Ice Age characters, Ray Romano, resistance, Weasel, Zizek

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Mad Max World

Cover of Mad Max (Special Edition)We have been taught to accept whatever choices people make, as long as they are lawful. Within an essentially unquestioned framework called "The Law", we believe, people (I mean citizens) can live out their valuable freedom, and choose anything they want and cannot do in-justice.

Of course, "The Law" ...

6 July, 2012

destruction, Mad Max, resistance, responsibility

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The Lightness of Being

"Recently I had contact with a scale. Not an old squeaking household scale, but an industrial-grade scale with metal footholds and a very precise digital display boasting accuracy in the hundredths. I was naked, and the scale was thus threatening to tell me the only truth. I waited for a short moment, then gathered ...

4 July, 2012

Kundera, lightness, metabolism, resistance, scale

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