November 2010
8 posts
“Once we reject the old, depressing Stalinist ideal of the grim, calculating...”
– David Graeber; History is made up of those events that couldn’t have been predicted before they happened - an interview (via sambowman) (via newleft)
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Why I Hate Baby Boomers, Reason #137
So the other day I’m stuck in a meeting, trying to decide whether it’s appropriate to hang a framed photo of me playing volleyball with Saddam Hussein on my cubicle wall, when the discussion turns to Mad Men. Pretty soon some of the older people in the room start reminiscing about their first boss, who would head down to the corner pub around noon and take his calls at the bar the rest...
October 2010
5 posts
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10... →
larssss:
1) It’s going to get worse
No silver linings and no lemonade. The elevator only goes down. The bright note is that the elevator will, at some point, stop.
2) The future isn’t going to feel futuristic
It’s simply going to feel weird and out-of-control-ish, the way it does now, because too…
History Is A Weapon (and a blog): Five and One →
lowendtheory:
curate:
AMY GOODMAN: And if you’re teaching young economists, the principles you would teach them, what they’d be?
MANFRED MAX-NEEF: The principles, you know, of an economics which should be are based in five postulates and one fundamental value principle. One, the…
September 2010
9 posts
The FBI has been raiding peace activists again.
historyisaweapon:
Let us join the chorus of people publicly condemning the FBI’s continued harassment of peace activists again. Protests are planned, let’s not forget our history.
August 2010
5 posts
The Paradoxical Commandments
The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you...
You Want a Social Life, with Friends - Kenneth...
You want a social life, with friends. A passionate love life and as well To work hard every day. What’s true Is of these three you may have two And two can pay you dividends But never may have three. There isn’t time enough, my friends— Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends— To find the time to have love, work, and friends. Michelangelo had feeling For Vittoria...
July 2010
8 posts
A New Look at the Left Wing: Consumer Activism →
The problem with activism at the level of consumption is that it’s inherently limited by the commodity form. You might plausibly change most or even all of the products you buy- but you’re still buying commodities. They remain disguised by outward appearances. Even if you limit your shopping to…
A Scientist Takes On Gravity →
youmightfindyourself:
By DENNIS OVERBYE NY Times Published: July 12, 2010
It’s hard to imagine a more fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on the Earth than gravity, from the moment you first took a step and fell on your diapered bottom to the slow terminal sagging of flesh and dreams.
But what if it’s all an illusion, a sort of cosmic frill, or a side effect of something else going...
A Hole in the World →
newleft:
unburyingthelead:
If Katrina pulled back the curtain on racism, the BP disaster pulls back the curtain on something far more hidden: how little control even the most ingenious among us have over the awesome, intricately interconnected natural forces with which we so casually meddle. BP cannot plug the hole in the Earth that it made. Obama cannot order brown pelicans not to go...
“This Knowledge is free and available to all; that’s why so many people...”
– The Soul Controller
June 2010
10 posts
'Too Big To Succeed' May Be Our Biggest Problem →
newleft:
Why and how has everything gotten so big? Is it the hubris of humanity that urges us to concoct dilemmas we cannot decipher? Predicaments from which we cannot extricate ourselves? Are we driven to build cars too big for parking spaces? Airplanes too big for their hangars? Metropolises too big for metro systems?
Do we develop corporations, institutions, governments, ecosystems that...
Required Summer Reading →
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
May 2010
14 posts
