I’ve been writing about the absurdity and degradation of buying and selling human time for a quarter century. Sometimes it feels like whistling in the dark, but other times I get a jolt of the incredible vitality of sticking to such a basic truth in the foggy blizzard of daily news and ridiculous obsessions that […]
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These times are dispiriting, and to pretend otherwise is delusional at best. That said, we are all still very much alive and as capable of changing the course of history as anyone who came before us. We face impediments, of course. I’m particularly interested these days in trying to dig into the ways we reproduce […] I’ve been pondering the politics of science lately. The Earth Island Journal has an excerpt from a book called Divine Destruction, which runs down the loony Xtian right wing schism called “Christian Reconstructionism,” tracing it from Gifford Pinchot’s original use of the term “wise use” and its later co-optation by GOP strategist Ron Arnold on […] |
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