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Tag Archives: Progress
Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Loneliness
By Yogi Prateado Source: Adbusters The Silicon Valley in which I live, a culture infused with the cocaine high of technological breakthroughs, grates against my earthly sensibilities. Riding on the crest of adrenalin, discovery, and money, what many in the fair … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Inequality, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged big data, capitalism, culture, Economics, Facebook, Google, Late Stage Capitalism, Progress, science, Silicon Valley, society, Tech Industry, technology
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OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Environment, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged 1984, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Dystopia, Economics, empathy, George Orwell, Global South, happiness, Health Care, Humanity, Literacy, Nicholas Kristof, Progress, science, Sick Care, Statistics, Stephen Pinker, technology, Third World
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Strategy and Conscience: Subverting Elite Power So We End Human Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes Given the overwhelming evidence that activist efforts are failing to halt the accelerating rush to extinction precipitated and maintained by dysfunctional human behavior, it is worth reflecting on why this is happening. Of course, you might … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, corporatocracy, elites, environment, Fossil Fuels, Gandhi, geopolitics, Global Elites, Helsinki, NATO, NGOs, Non-Violence, Nuclear War, Peace, Progress, Putin, Social Progress, society, Trump, Violence, war
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The Search for Meaning in Modern Life
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times Every good story about a search begins with a tale. So, here’s one; it’s a tale about a magician who gave a dinner for his neighbours. There was once a Magician who built … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Health, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Archons, culture, empathy, Entertainment, Gnosticism, Imagination, Meaning, media, modernity, Mystery, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Wetiko
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James C. Scott’s Against the Grain
By chilke Source: The HipCrime Vocab During my long discursion on the history of money, the academic James C. Scott published an important book called Against the Grain: A Deep History of the First States. Regular readers will know that this has … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, History, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Against the Grain, Agriculture, civilization, Economics, Food, Government, Grains, Hunter-Gatherers, James C. Scott, Progress, society, State, Wheat
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A Skeleton Key to the Alt Left
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Last time we looked at the differences between the “Left” as manifested in the mainstream political discourse and those of a number of authors, blogger and thinkers that I’ve (somewhat arbitrarily) lumped under the umbrella of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Alt-Left, Alt-Right, capitalism, Classical Economics, Collapse, Communism, Corporate Globalization, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Eurocentric Modernism, Eurocentrism, Karl Polanyi, Modernism, Neoliberalism, Progress, Rajani Kanth
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Three Paths
By Erik Lindberg Source: Resilience To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged Anthropology, civilization, Conservatives, Degrowth, environment, Globalism, Globalists, Liberals, Peak Oil, Philosophy, Progress, Realism, society, Sociology, Sustainability
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