Sunday, January 22, 2012 economy <=> ecology (2 comments)
the extreme imbalance of both the (world) economy and ecology is a consequence of how we, humans, have removed ourselves from the reality of the planet. Politics will not help, money spent will not help, we need to rethinl who we are in relation to the reality of the planet
Friday, September 30, 2011 Fiddling While the Planet Burns (3 comments)
Why don't we talk about climate change?
Globalization but not Global Warming?
We have become a species hell bent on destroying the planet, forgetting or denying that we are of the planet. We are racing full speed to our own extinction, taking as many species with us as we can. According to at least one Holy Book once we were all but erased but cleansed by water; this time it will be by fire and all other extremes...
Saturday, August 13, 2011 The Last War, Having vs Being (3 comments)
The last war is the Haves against the Have-nots, fought on many fronts as if it is about having. But it is really about BEING. Our being heard, listened to. About Life itself.
Sunday, August 7, 2011 Money, money (4 comments)
a divided country, split by money -- on one side they have all of it, on the other we the people who get less and less.
Saturday, July 23, 2011 BE PREPARED (22 comments)
Be prepared for the shock of the loss of innocence, the thought that "things will work out" they may not.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 "Let them eat cake" (3 comments)
this is not about politics, or even religion, it is psychology, sociology, but above all needing to be heard.
Saturday, January 1, 2011 one one eleven (1 comments)
happy new year!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 NOW WHAT? (7 comments)
the gap between the two Americas -- can we talk?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Is there an alternative to constant economic growth? (8 comments)
growth can never be forever. Growing requires dying. How can we change to a sustainable life style -- quickly, while we still can?
Friday, July 23, 2010 What I Look At Looks At Me (2 comments)
In an ecology everything is related to everything - and in ecologies there are no bosses - there is no better. We're all in this together.
Saturday, July 10, 2010 ADAPT (11 comments)
"What can we DO?"
Adapt to a rapidly, probably dangerously changing world. Global warming is global-- as our economy -- but the effects, and adaptation will have to be local
Friday, July 2, 2010 Evolution -- Devolution (9 comments)
That one species (and actually a few individuals of one species) should willfully destroy a planet should be unthinkable to a thinking species. But, that is what is happening here and now
Thursday, June 24, 2010 REALITIES (3 comments)
One way of trying to understand why we, humans, are busy destroying our planet, the only home we have.
Saturday, June 19, 2010 War on the World (7 comments)
The disaster in the Gulf reminds us that Big oil and all the other Big industries have waged a war on Mother Earth -- and so on We the People of the world
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH (4 comments)
global warming, climate change
modern civilization versus indigenous people
extremes of rich and poor, developed - developing
dangerous loss of biodiversity
Saturday, January 23, 2010 SMILE (3 comments)
When John Roberts sat for a photo with the other Supremes he smiled. He could barely suppress from bursting into a guffaw.
Smiling is a very American thing. The first thing that any American baby learns is to stretch the mouth on command, and as the teeth come in, show teeth. No other country has so many glaring white teeth to show. In fact, there are many cultures where showing teeth is a sign of aggression.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 War (4 comments)
This past summer's supposed 'debates' showed how far some people are willing to go to destroy discussions that should be the ground of a democracy. The 'some people' may be a minority but in a world presented to us by the Media mayhem has a louder voice than we the people.
Saturday, September 5, 2009 Eight Months Into a new Administration -- What's Next?
We are in the eighth month of a new Administration, a new president, and not much has changed. We still wage some visible and a number of invisible wars. The loudest war is between the two parties —yes, in America we define “democracy” as a two party system. As somebody said, both parties have slid to the right
Saturday, November 29, 2008 Interregnum means between reigns (2 comments)
Why this interregnum between election and assumption of power? In this dead season -- I don't know where lame ducks come in --
Thursday, October 9, 2008 Money
Once there was a saying You have to have money to make money.
Now it is: You must make money with borrowed money.
That feels unreal to me, somehow dishonest.
How about revamping the financial system so that it only deals with what there is, and not with what they wished there were. Borrowing is really gambling on the future, isn't it?
Monday, September 22, 2008 A Modest Proposal (5 comments)
We live in the time of lies. The Media have taught us that the slide from advertising to propaganda is really just a matter of meaningless words. The Media also demonstrated that a lie, said with conviction & repeated a few times, becomes accepted fact. We, the people, accept that where there is smoke there must be fire. Oh yeah?
And yet we humans are more confused than ever. We drown in the lies from the right & the left
Thursday, August 21, 2008 WHAT THERE IS - IS ALL THERE IS (12 comments)
Sustainability, "why worry about the price of oil, why not consider how to do without?"
Thursday, April 24, 2008 We the People? (1 comments)
perspective on primaries and elections and where that leaves We the People
Thursday, February 14, 2008 These Times, February 2008 (1 comments)
The indigenous people I knew thought important decisions should include the will of all people. It sometimes took a while, but eventually, all agreed on a certain course. That system worked to keep peace for long times. And, incidentally, even in Muslim countries, women were never excluded in times of considering, thinking about, talking about, important issues.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 Questons, questions
questions we don't ask -- but should ask, for our own survival
Saturday, March 24, 2007 Sailing to the Moon (2 comments)
when we, humans, create a world that is not doing well, we -- and others -- feel the stress, making us more extreme. How are we dealing with these manmade stresses.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 LOCKS & KEYS
Our entire nation--the world--seems to be locked into the idea that better locks give us better protection. Yet, anyone looking at how we live our lives must see that all these multiple, ever more sophisticated locks, don't do much to protect, only make us more paranoid. Thinking "security" makes life unnecessarily difficult and complicated. We talk about protecting our liberty but it is our freedom we sacrifice.
Saturday, July 15, 2006 Politics Is Not Enough (1 comments)
how to change, repair, go in a different direction
Thursday, June 8, 2006 CONUNDRUM; Climate Change, world culture and "democracy." (2 comments)
Where western culture, the WTO and globalism go, people essentially lose their identity, their religion, their values. That is a worldwide story. Everywhere westerners have settled, or even visited on a regular basis, cultures and languages have been swept away, leaving people living in a void, between partially remembered song and wisdom, and the crude materialism of western so-called culture.
Monday, April 24, 2006 War on Terra (4 comments)
We like to think that we lifted ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in reality, of course, we grabbed more of what we wanted by stepping on the backs of others.
We have a myth that we conquered an empty land; but of course it was not empty at all. Abusing slaves and other humans by force of gunpowder is bad enough, but the consequences of abusing the land we stole will turn out to be a greater catastrophe.
