"What we get to see with Trump is that capitalism has nowhere to go other than into the darker reaches of itself." From Charles Liburd

Jonathan Woolley, on Trump as the big-daddy boss archetype.

On the delusions of American exceptionalism.

Tourism is not just an industry. It is a worldview, a way of life that amplifies an already alarming affliction of being elsewhere, everywhere and, therefore, nowhere.

It’s easy to subscribe to business gurus and generic finance tips that don’t address the fundamental question of how to achieve an authentic and fulfilling existence in this world.

Cities have been the center of social change, art and exchange of ideas since their beginning, right up to the present moment and yet radical thought on the topic of cities focuses almost entirely on critiques of the city, that they are dirty, dangerous, antisocial, violent, full of social inequity.

The eight circuits are basic mental programs, imprinted at vulnerable moments in our development, on which our personalities are built.

Distinguishing opinion from misinformation requires critical analysis from everyone, not just legal professionals or employees of tech companies.

The British ruling class is old, and it is clever. No one else in the world does the pomp and ceremony like us.

Oppression takes many forms, and there is little use in ranking them. But it is possible that something we see every day looks less oppressive than something we almost never see in real life. There is oppression that becomes normalized, and we mistake that for it being “less oppressive”.

The idea of being a civilized human, sustainable and developed, is harnessed to domestication as exploitation, with domestication providing the necessary resources to sustain growth and civilization, because ‘nature’ is finite.

Implementing a foreign principle on weapons policy can further exacerbate economic inequalities.

Here then we can begin to see the pub not only as a place where people consumed alcohol and got drunk but also as a place that served the community. Many pubs and alehouses served food and provided lodging as well. More than that though, the pub gave those outside of the political elite and the ruling classes a place where they could exchange ideas and debate politics with their neighbours, and not only in an abstract way, but through the lens of their own lives and the issues affecting them.

The terror and urgency of this global paradigm of democracy and the struggle for freedom is that it threatens the survival of vulnerable people.

The problem was not the music, imagery, or movements themselves, but their treatment within our capitalist paradigm in which cultural practices are taken out of context, commodified, trademarked, and sold.

This pandemic isn’t a random mutation of Nature. It’s a living product of imperial imagination

There has been a tug-of-war between those who want to use the Gods as tools of oppression and those who see them as a path towards liberation for as long as there has been reconstructionism.

It’s astounding how little the average citizen knows about nature and their local ecosystems. It has become easier for us to imagine a mosquito that is genetically engineered to be sterile, than to learn about which animals in our area are their natural predators.

At the time of writing this article, the #witchtok on Tiktok has more views than #biden, the current president of the United States. This is quite clearly a shocking development, one that those who worked in metaphysical stores in the 1990s never would’ve anticipated.