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"Hope is like a road in the forest. There never was a road, but when many people walk that way, the road comes into existence." Lin Yu-Tang
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Until We Can Deal With Death: We’ll never deal with COVID-19
I believe we will cope with pandemics and other threats if we focus on living and making life better for current and future generations and less on preventing death at all costs. Continue reading
Posted in healing, Reasons to Live, Uncategorized
Tagged aging, balance, Coronavirus, death, Health, lockdown
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The Boxes We Live In
Corporate media managers work day and night to surround us with narrative walls that function like distorting mirrors in circus fun houses. Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, fear, illusion, personal growth, politics, trauma
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Listen To The Donkey
It could save your life Image: Iva Rajovic instagram.com/eklektikum Do you ever feel like some unseen force is blocking you? Self-help books, therapists or coaches might help you find a different way forward, but wait! Maybe the world wants … Continue reading
The Human Costs of the Shutdown
“The response to the Pandemic has been the worst assault on the working class in 50 years.” Martin Kulldorff Continue reading
Talking Down to People Won’t Convince Them
I used to wonder why conservatives called liberal academics and entertainers ‘elites’, If professors and actors are ‘elite,’ what do you call billionaires and heads of corporations who actually run the world? Well, now I know Continue reading
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Tagged conservatism, culture, elitism, liberalism, politics, public health
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9 Good Questions About UBI – And one great answer
Where UBI supports capitalism and strengthens markets, an federal jobs guarantee (FJG) is more socialist, because governments would decide what jobs would be available. Both are good. Start with UBI now; work toward an FJG. Continue reading
Zoom School Is Like Regular School – Only Worse
Kids live in a physical reality, of which other people are the primary part. Our tech overlords’ dream of a virtual world does not fit their needs. Continue reading
The Blessings of Capitalism — and How they’re killing us
Capitalism is not conservative, it’s not liberal. It’s a religion. A Costco store is a capitalist temple. The shelves are altars; the checkout lines are our communion. Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, ecology, economics, Protestantism, religion, spirituality
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Science Is A 4-Year Old Playing With The World
Capitalism’s need for growth and profit may be the force driving the world over a cliff, but science designed the train, and technology built it. Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, environment, indigenous, religion, science, wisdom
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Jonah in the 21st Century
Your calling may appear impossible, but if you run away from it, it will torment you for life. There may be no way it could happen, but it still might happen. Continue reading