Category: Big thoughts
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Seeking sense from the senseless
After lifetime of trying to understand stuff, I’m not sure I understand anything anything anymore. Is it just me? I devoted six years of college to understanding American society from a systems perspective, and then another 40 years learning about social change from a grassroots perspective, as a participant-observer in…
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Make Earth Cool Again
Made a meme of words from James Koehnline and an Earth image from NASA in 2012. We need to make Earth cool again in more ways than one. Let’s do it. Some people might object to this meme as deriving from and evoking a horrible person with a horrible slogan…
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Guns & cars & rules, oh my!
I’m not a big fan of either guns or cars. I believe both produce a lot of unnecessary harm in our world (and our country, specifically). But I’m realistic — I know that neither one is going away any time soon. Certainly not here in the good old US of…
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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…
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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…
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Unpublished notes from a reluctant class warrior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…
freelansing in Seattle 