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Book Review, Twilight of the Elites: Meritocracy says “there must be one who rules, so let it be the best”; egalitarianism responds “why must there?”

I really appreciate this review, and will definitely read the book. As I tell people over and over, “It’s not that there aren’t enough jobs. It’s that nobody should have to “do a job.” Let’s re-structure society into a gifting economy that eliminates the rat race and opens space for full self-expression of our beautiful […]

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Are we being programmed by “soft disclosure” now?

While being herded up a stairwell through I think it was the Minneapolis airport last month on my first summer trip to Seattle, my eyes happened to glance at an enormous advertisement that had a disk-shaped UFO in it, large and plain as day. Can’t remember the subject matter of the advertisement, but I do […]

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Sixteen-year-old musician on tempo, compassion, fractals and YOU

Thanks for the pointer for this video to another commentator, “Cassiel97,” on the latest Cobra missive. That a 16-year-old should speak this way resonates beautifully with the 5-year-old girl’s courage. Truly, out of the mouths of babes . . . Let us listen, and learn. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAf0buGpBfk]

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Five year old Palestinian girl to Israeli soldiers: “Why are you coming in the night? I can’t sleep at night. You are coming, coming . . .”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63vJvn-PlA] Published on Jul 18, 2012 by AkyasEasu {Palestinian girl Jenny (5 years) from the village of Nabi Saleh north west of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers courageously online on one of the entrances to the village in English and talk about the enormous injustice perpetrated against them by the Israeli occupation. These soldiers and tried to […]

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Seattle again, with family, July, 2012, day two: the folks and the nukes

It turns out that I can do this blog in my folks’ apartment at Mount. St. Vincent’s which is run by the Sisters of Providence. And now that I’m still stoked from the Sisters of Earth Conference, I’m much less surprised then when last here at the palpable love that binds together everyone who works […]

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