America the Selfish: This is not a nanny state. The people’s investment is in its government and the government’s investment is in its people. So the government should be saying “get your education because we need you to steer this country.” Education and opportunity were the birth of the middle class – and that made [...]
I don’t know the author or this book, but this is why I love UFO lore. I live for this stuff. It’s entertaining as fiction. But what if it’s real, what if. My very earliest memory, at around 3 years of age, is of being taken up our street by a tall, thin grandmother-type woman [...]
This is an interesting quote. Embrace the dark parts of ourselves, rather than try to alleviate it (via). We are experiencing the initiation of the human race into a new level of consciousness, and that is a very terrifying experience. It does no good to turn and run from the terror of our darkness into [...]
I just created this image. Yep, I’m going to hell. I don’t generally like, um, shitting on people’s faith. But this isn’t faith anymore, it’s a fascist movement. Background on the image.
Very flattered and amazed that Daniel Pinchbeck has chosen to address some of my questions directly on Facebook (1, 2) and Reality Sandwich. He’s been on fire recently on Facebook, talking mainly about new conceptions of sexuality. There’s a reason I begin The American Book with a father discovering his daughter doing porn online – [...]
Frank Zappa on a fascist theocracy. He shows great restraint not punching these weasels in the face.
Amazing letter from Aldous Huxley to George Orwell upon release of 1984. Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people [...]
US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law A bill passed Monday in the US House of Representatives and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests of last year. Several commentators have dubbed [...]
Thought-provoking essay in Salon: America’s endless apocalypse: Over the last decade, we’ve become obsessed with the end of the world — and it’s hurting us all. It doesn’t really get into the species extinction rate, or financial collapse. So fear of the apocalypse is not just paranoia, but rational. It’d be worse if people thought [...]
I’ve been accused of being sour for disagreeing with Daniel Pinchbeck’s recent proclamations. To me, he’s gone from being open-minded to more of a believer. Because this is what he’s implying by saying the world’s going to evolve on 12-21-12 – that Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Islamic terrorists, Barack Obama, and everybody else [...]