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A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good...

The Ecocidal Feedback Loop of Consumerism

24/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapcocide. Methane feedback loops. And perpetual, low-grade war for the planet’s resources that will render her hostile to human...

Watching: Bourdieu [Vid]

09/11/2014

Sociology is a Martial Art follows the day to day mental life of Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist at the forefront of Post-structuralist theory until is death in 2002....

Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS

17/07/2014

To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death...

Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

05/05/2014

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text....

Patriotism and Silence

07/04/2014

How can the U.S. not be a haunted land? The country's blood-soaked soil chants songs of lamentation. ...

Imagination in a Soulless Age

24/02/2014

Often a collapse, a breakdown, a depression—some sort of unsolvable crisis is required before the soul's message is heard. ...

Mindfulness starts at School

29/03/2013

Mindfulness at school reduces likelihood of depression-related symptoms in adolescents...

Locomotion

26/12/2012

The trick of getting a lift is not in persuading someone to stop. It is in being at exactly the right place at the right time such that the person who would give you a lift and is heading your way...

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...