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political praxis & catalytic communications

  • Mad Tea Party

    In attempt to better understand current political events, I’ve been reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Our nation’s politics have clearly gone down the rabbit hole and just get curiouser and curiouser. This Tea Party is mad in more ways than one. Confusion is contagion. Time stands still; no progress is possible. The confused are played… Read more

  • Not Your Grandfather’s GOP

    One thing that gets lost in the 24-hr news cycle of political reporting is a longer view of political developments—not just for today, this week, or this election cycle, but over a span of decades. One of the most significant political developments over the past half century has been the extreme rightward shift of the… Read more

  • Declarations of Independence and Interdependence

    Declarations of Independence and Interdependence

    When in the course of human events certain social constructs outgrow their original purposes, and instead serve to undermine the public good in myriad ways, it becomes necessary for natural people to reclaim their power usurped by such constructs. Corporations were originally created to enable various types of large-scale, collective economic activity beyond the capability… Read more

  • Unpublished notes from a reluctant class warrior

    Unpublished notes from a reluctant class warrior

    As I try to collect my thoughts & find the time to publish something current, I just found this piece I wrote in early fall that for some reason I never published. In the hopes that late is better than never (& since class war has not disappeared in the ensuing months), I offer it… Read more

  • Bad blogger! Good uprising! Catching up on a year’s worth of events

    Dear reader (hello? anyone still there?), I warned you that this would be “slow blogging,” but I never intended for my blog to go dark for more than a year. In the immortal words of Rick Perry, “Oops!” I feel especially remiss since, in my postings right after the 2010 elections (here, here, & here),… Read more

  • Hot buttons of progressive populism

    Of course there is a class war, but it’s my class, the rich class, that is waging the war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett, third richest man in the world A couple days after the midterm elections I wrote about reasons to get mad over the growing influence of Big Money in our elections, and… Read more