PinnedThe New WorkPlay existed way before people. Music, too, exists independent of people. On earth, the birds are playing, with the crickets doing the evening show along with coyotes doing background alto. The ocean is graced by the elegant sound of the whale. For a while the sounds of people were the didgeridoo…Music2 min readMusic2 min read
5 days agoSuffering By DesignWork should be a joy that we perform for ourselves and our colleagues. Cooperation and efficiency are the strengths that have allowed humanity to grow. Trust and loyalty are values that help a group maintain cohesion and success. Our leaders were part of the group. The group dissolved with the…Philosophy2 min readPhilosophy2 min read
Mar 13War On Drugs Precludes Health CareWe objectify and punish those who practice unpopular personal behavior. We subjectively group substances with repeated but unapproved off label use as “bad”. …Philosophy2 min readPhilosophy2 min read
Mar 12Status Quo Parasites and Undistributed TreasureWhen you hear about “balancing the budget” and references to debt, the subject won’t be about tax cuts or deregulation or sending billions in weapons elsewhere . These tropes are fake responsibility dodges when considering supporting the disadvantaged or strengthening services and infrastructure. …Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Mar 12Global War MachineThere is one country that spends far more than any other country spends on its bloated military and insatiable weapons industry. Unlike other countries, it has hundreds and hundreds of military bases on the other side of the world! It poses as a champion of democracy while leveraging its own…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Feb 20Social Market“It isn’t capitalism that creates economic growth; it’s people” “It isn’t competition that creates prosperity, it’s cooperation” - -Nick Hanauer, Outlier hero and.01% rich guy talking TED It’s pretty obvious to 99% of us that there is a gap between Capitalism and Humanity. Those who can buy elections and warp…Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
Feb 7Media Victimizes Innocent TargetsEd Snowden and Julian Assange exposed important misdeeds of our military and intelligence agencies. Whistleblowers are supposed to be protected, but our government goes after them. Their information was more than newsworthy, but the media has not defended them. The government still unfounded claims of harm were recited, but not…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Jan 2Doing The Human ThingThere Are Better Ways The definitions for motivation and inspiration have overlap, but also some exclusivity. Inspiration is considered to be positive generated from within. We can be motivated externally, which can be negative. (The earthquake motivated the family to leave their crumbling home.) In the USA, we associate Capitalism…Philosophy3 min readPhilosophy3 min read
Dec 29, 2022Unprovoked EvilYemen didn’t provoke us. Yet we are responsible for bombing them. The democratic monarchy of Iran asked for our help in being more democratic, but instead we installed the Shah of Iran. Unprovoked. (Our presumptuous jingo explaining their eventual hostility: “They hate us for our freedom”). 9–11 was mostly Saudi…Government2 min readGovernment2 min read
Dec 27, 2022Unified For Ukraine, Ignorant Of Every Other Damn Thing In This WorldThe United States has manipulated every South American country to advance what is in our (capitalist) best interest. We had Salvador Allende killed to keep Chile from becoming socialist. Ironically, Henry Kissinger, the guy who engineered it, thinks we’re making a mistake with NATO and Ukraine! Our undue influence saw…Government3 min readGovernment3 min read
