Upward Spiral – #1 – Slavery and Freedom
In our first episode we explore the themes Slavery and Freedom in response to our recent viewing of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Co-hosts Ken Vallario and Eric Duffy, with special guest star Byron King. Also featuring a surprise visit from Downward Spiral co-host Geoff Feder. Enjoy!
Marriage and Politics
My wife and I recently celebrated our 7 year anniversary. I am very proud of this, mostly because my wife and I worked very hard to develop what has become a strong and happy marriage. Anybody who knows us well knows two things. One, that we are both very strong-willed individuals and that we struggled [...]
Silver Lining
After hearing news reports in the background of my distracted morning driving of European countries downsizing their governments under economic pressure I realized that there is a global deconstruction of representative government. That is what is really happening. Anybody who knows anything about economics (like me) knows that there is plenty of ‘capital’ out there, [...]
New Tactics for OWS #2 – ONE WORLD CURRENCY
HEY OCCUPY WALL STREET! PUT OUT A CALL AROUND THE WORLD FOR A SINGLE GLOBAL CURRENCY. From the beginning of my participation with Occupy Wall Street I have advocated for an absurdist approach to demands. Why? Not because I want chaos, but because the problems we face are too large for singular or systemic legislative [...]
Revolutionary Tools … puns for fundamentalists…
If I have a gift, in the realm of revolution, it is for creating linguistic frames that allow us to perceive the problem in a way that implies a next step. And one of these problems is found in our use of the word Solidarity. There are two forms of solidarity; negative and positive. Negative [...]
Admission of Guilt
April 5, 2011 Most of the things about me some consider great exist because of some neglected responsibility. I was thinking of my wife this morning and how we met, working together for a week at a camp for underprivileged children. That whole week was spent neglecting my duties in favor of pursuing the object [...]
The Physics of a Movement
As I continue to watch this Occupy Wall Street movement unfold, I cannot help but feel it is time to create a movement within a movement. It is time for us to move from solidarity that arises from dissatisfaction toward the unity that comes from shared vision. This is difficult, but it is made [...]
Open Letter to David Graeber and Chris Hedges…
After watching the video interview of Chris Hedges, and reading the follow up letter by David Graeber (both below) concerning the Black Bloc occupy tactics, I wrote my own open letter. Please share. Open Letter to David Graeber and Chris Hedges Dear Distinguished Dudes, As a member of this ‘struggle’ I cannot help but see [...]
Huge Numbers…
If you will watch the video, you will conclude, i hope, as I have, that our president is lying to us…that he is misrepresenting something that is fatal…his ineloquence is symptomatic of the difficult role presidents face today of speaking without saying anything…it is more difficult than one might assume… Look at his first statement: [...]
The Terminator
1. I’ve argued before that the current Occupy Movement is a struggle against an economic system driven by computational devices…machines. Now, we see the development of a computational/mechanized army. In other words, the machine war is becoming more real by the day…it is no longer a metaphor. 2. People who are versed in history are [...]
The Anonymous Survival Guide
For your reading pleasure I recently found this…Be warned, it’s a little frightening…click the link below to download the 15 page pdf… Click Here for Main Page
The Horror – Suicide and Condiments
For the last 2 years suicides among U.S. Troops were greater than the number of troops killed in battle. I heard this on the Smiley and West show on NPR…as they reported the top under-reported stories of the year. Click Here to Listen (relevant story at 10:30) As I was sitting in a diner [...]
Framing the problem #1 – The Idiot
Hundreds of years after the Enlightenment we still suffer from the same issue – Assholes and Idiots in leadership positions. Because we all are products of a scientific society it is always tempting to get bogged down in the details, in the schemas, in the isms…but at root is the perennial problem of dealing with [...]
On the first day of a new era – 2012 begins
I awoke this morning with a feeling that perhaps there is no word for…a mixture of cautious excitement and an intention to focus on the tiny sensations of being, as I knew this was the start of a momentous year. I bless this year with a video of Terence McKenna asking the question that will [...]
THANK YOU OWS
This is an official Thank You video approved by the New York General Assembly. I am so thankful for what OWS has given me personally. It has both awakened me and created a community that I am proud of. I thank you organizers for your tireless commitment to justice, equality and community spirit.
Disney praise…
Just saw this video on facebook, a Disney produced video showing universal support for those people who have felt bullied because of their sexual orientations. I was proud to see a major corporation make such a clear declaration of love, and I think this represents another moment in the global awakening that is occurring. I [...]
Ken Vallario named Time’s Person of the Year
This morning I awoke to an email from my good friend Byron King saying ‘You made it!’ And I went to this link announcing that Time’s Person of the Year was The Protester and realized that ‘Yes, I had made it.’ I have been telling people for the past few months that the best analogy [...]
Parallel Evolution
Universaltron and I talked about this exact model after the spill…i cannot remember the post, but maybe he will embed it here…but the idea we had was that much could be done with a small army of bots…whelp, it seems our idea was a good one, and that somebody else, better equipped, went forward… i [...]
Globatron Saint
more hope, found within the machine…this young woman is a saint in my mind, and will serve as a model for my work this year on globatron….we must get out there again, and let our society know that we mean to be heard…bravo!!!! for speech full text click the link here
Reductio Ad Absurdum
My dear Globatron Citizens, I am very happy to present my latest book Reductio Ad Absurdum – Five Considerations for the 21st Century Philosopher Sage. It is available for purchase from lulu.com at the link below. I will be giving a free preview as a series of posts through the next few weeks. After the [...]
Ode to Greedy Greg
My dearest Greg, You, like so many in our time, having seen a speech from Wall Street, the movie, have made a mistake that many 10 year olds of my generation used to make, wanting to dress up like Darth Vader for Halloween…Because you see, Gordon Gekko, representative of human greed as a source of [...]
Utopian Fantasies
The fact that most are unwilling to face is that the rise of technology has decreased dramatically the necessity of work, and thus the driving force of exploitation. So, those in charge are finding it more and more difficult to justify the exploitation of the masses, but they are still succeeding in doing so by [...]