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I'm an old Pogo fan. For some unknown reason I persist in outrage at Feudalism, as if human beings can do much better than this. Our old ways of life are obsolete and are killing us. Will the human race wake up in time? Stay tuned...
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Because of the algorithms in Great Googly-moogly and the Book of Faces (our externalized brain), most of the traffic is not coming from the Internet to our screens. Of course not: the purpose of Information is no longer to inform. It was superseded by aggregated Attention, which moves so much faster, albeit in the opposite direction.
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We can't tackle these catastrophes in the usual way, as if they were separate problems that just happen to be coming to a head at the same time. They cross too many boundaries that are really insubstantial, just arbitrary boundaries of thinking, a legacy of bureaucratic departments and academic disciplines of the past. They're too hopelessly interrelated, like the Rubik's Cube puzzle, solving one problem un-solves another.
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Meanwhile, as Tulsa braces for a convention that's certain to go down as a "super-spreader" event, we're being divided into two camps. One is for people who just don't believe there's a problem; Well, ok, only one camp. The other camp is all the normal, reasonably sane people -- most people.
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As to identifying an evil perpetrator, you and I have nothing to go on, and no knowledge, and no access, and no tools or weapons with which to do anything at all about that. And most of the people who claim such knowledge have a vested interest in our believing them, and scant actual credibility, except maybe a large following. Like the President. That's not going to make me drink the Clorox.
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Under our present culture of untrammeled profit-seeking, a rising level of poverty is absolutely guaranteed, and democracy is not. One will constrain the other, and when democracy is constrained by commerce, it doesn't exist at all. The true measure of our success lies in the ordinariness of rape and child abuse and enslavement.
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There is no way any problem-solving organization can solve the problem of proliferating problem-solving organizations. We're back to what we came in with: our own sensibilities, our tendency to project our own traumas on others, our automatic snap-judgments, our ulterior motives, our hidden agendas. All the mechanisms we evolved for mere survival in a world full of large predators, that got us this far.
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Hospitals and prisons in America are now run as a sector of the Hospitality Industry. The product is not, as the name suggests, a warm and friendly sojourn for your family or business associates, much less healthy and safe outcomes for people in medical or legal difficulties.
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We are not the pinnacle of Creation, or the high point of evolution, depending on your religious orientation. Or the descendants of extraterrestrials from Remulac. God, or Darwin, or Remulac, did not wind us up and set us ticking through the world repeating the same old crap under a different name, expecting different results. Each of these purportedly omnipotent sources is by definition way smarter than that. Series: The Big Mirror (12 Articles, 16727 views)
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human beings create paradigms. We don't do that by the ways we vote. We do that by the ways we live. And we live according to what we perceive as reality. And that's a function of the paradigm...
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Politicians are riding the ambient terror that's now normal in America for all it's worth. We are led by opportunists and con-artists drumming up business among the most uninformed. Not "misinformed" or "disinformed" or yet "malinformed" but just benumbed and hypnotized with fear, ripe for plucking. This has bankrupted democracy, and thrown public discourse into chaos.
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Some of these important films are free online now. But just reading the short synopses in this list may change your views on this critical issue.
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"In today's dominant culture the bottom line is that you only get a good job if somebody else makes a profit by hiring you on terms that afford you a decent living. There is no reason why that auspicious outcome should befall every job seeker. It doesn't." - Dr Howard Richards Series: Sources and Resources (5 Articles, 6557 views)
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Nobody has ever gotten very far with a brute-force attack on the system. Until now. Only one person on the planet can get away with this one. It's an action that negates every notion of justice, whether retributive or restorative, technical or philosophical. Ok, or moral (but that was gone before this clown showed up).
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it is not a battlefield, on which a machine that actually could bring peace and harmony to this war-torn world evolves within the profit-imperative of our global culture. That field is thoroughly colonized. It is claim-staked territory, trampled and dusty under the thundering hooves of the latest gold rush.
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Digital ads are not a good ROI these days. The window-dressing is falling away from the attention-mining machinery. Series: The Big Mirror (12 Articles, 16727 views)
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The dead are disproportionately infants and young children, blown to rags, buried under buildings, shot, suffocated, etc., while occupied, imprisoned, detained, surrounded, besieged, starved, orphaned and helpless. Series: Reports from Palestine (58 Articles, 46152 views)
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