Growing the future: ways forward, together

10 April 2025

Systems of Power, by Drager Meurtant

Those in power know how to gain control: First, intimidation is an effective means to suppress the voice of opponents. If necessary, step up and use terror: this works by paralyzing opposition.

class, economics, ethics, media, patriarchy, philosophy, politics, state, theory

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29 March 2025

Capitalism as socioeconomic cancer

You don’t have to look too far to see the heinous environmental and social damage capitalism wreaks on every shore it infests. Read on to find out what you can do about it.

altruism, charity, climate crisis, economics, environment, gift economy, politics, protest, state, theory

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28 March 2025

Most people don’t understand

A reblog from Canadian writer windupmyskirt. What’s something most people don’t understand? That there’s really nothing that hasn’t already happened in this world. Which is why studying history is so important. For instance, what is currently happening between Canada and the USA has happened before. We’ve had trade wars, and we’ve even had literally invasions…

patriarchy, philosophy, politics, state, theory, voting, war

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26 March 2025

‘Fruit of a poisonous tree’

Today I share a timely article on the US situation, by Dan Rodricks.

ethics, patriarchy, politics, state

autocracy, corrupt, corruption, crime, death to democracy, democracy, dictator, dictatorship, Donald Trump, judiciary, law, Mitch McConnell, politics, president, punishment, separation of powers, state, trump, us politics, usa
26 March 2025

Mitch McConnell, the greatest enabler in U.S. history, kept Trump out of prison

I’ll employ a legal metaphor — “fruit of a poisonous tree” — to trace the path of one of the worst failures in U.S. history: The failure to hold Trump criminally responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Congress, a failure that kept Trump eligible to run for president a third time.…

ethics, patriarchy, politics, state

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20 March 2025

Effective altruism

A friend brought this idea and the following article to my attention recently. Please enjoy and share your thoughts in the comments below. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768/

altruism, charity, class, ethics, gift economy

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19 March 2025

What to do next

an article by qpoc activist elly befort-mattos i always go on about how we need to abandon capitalism someone asked me what we should replace it with i wrote a response that i’m happy with. these are not original thoughts, but my words on a current of thought that is relatively new to me still,…

class, climate crisis, environment, patriarchy, politics, state

activism, capitalism, change, first nations, mourning, solution, solutions, system, system change
3 October 2024

Kari’s letter/ or a paradigm-shifting discussion with ChatGPT

A new theory of everything to help us forward.

artificial intelligence, ethics, philosophy, politics, state, theory, war

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28 September 2024

Awakening from the machine of history: a manifesto

We find ourselves in an age of immense contradiction. On one hand, we possess the capacity to reflect, to imagine, to transcend the immediate demands of survival. On the other, we remain trapped in patterns of behaviour that drive societies toward conflict, exploitation, and collapse.

class, climate crisis, environment, patriarchy, peace, politics, state, war

consciousness, mental-health, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, state, system change
12 September 2024

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras member and community consultation, September 2024: my responses

Should police be allowed to march in the Sydney Mardi Gras? Categorically no! Here’s why.

class, patriarchy, police, politics, protest, queer, state

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