The ruling cliques of the West have run off the rails, and we all know it. (“We” being productive people.) Who among us would volunteer for the outrages spewed at us over the past several years?
We the productive have been thrown into a deep contradiction: Firstly, we are sickened by the things we see. But if we imagine the systems doing this going away, we feel panic.
What I’m telling you is not to fear the loss of the high and mighty: they’re not helping us and we’d rebalance in their absence anyway. Continue reading “Don’t Panic, We’ll Rebalance After”
A small roll of pages showed up in my mailbox last week, printed on an odd size and type of paper. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000–2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I’m repeating the text here verbatim, sans the header, which mentions only the title of the book. (Or perhaps it’s the title of a chapter.)
A few hundred years ago it was a standard medical practice to bleed sick people: to make cuts in various parts of their bodies and to drain blood from them. Most people submitted to this useless and frequently harmful treatment without question.
You’re in a bad situation; you’re depressed, frightened, and need a solution. I’ll do my best to give you one. But first, please believe me that I know what it’s like to be in desperate circumstances.
The other day a friend contacted me, looking for an article that explained why centralization is bad. At first I was sure there had to be many, but I came up dry. Hence today’s post. 
You work long, hard days, but you never have enough to be secure. Your husband or wife probably works too, and yet you still never get ahead. Now think about this: Your great-grandparents worked hard, and they did get ahead. You work just as hard, but you don’t make the same progress.
For clarity, let’s define “evil” as “the willful abuse of other humans.”
A number of people seem to freak out when I write a piece like this, but it’s a huge mistake to define ourselves by what we’re against, and darkness is not all that exists in the world. 
Most people, sad to say, are too rushed, frightened, and confused to think about what they really want out of life. They are hustled through school, forced into long-term decisions before they’re ready to handle them, then held to those decisions. 
My dream of what could be.