Tuesday, March 03, 2015

17 Questions for Revolutionaries

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I'm a big fan of The 36 Questions  that come from  Mandy Len Catron’s recent Modern Love essay, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do T...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Pollyannaism is an act of submission

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Okay so I finally figured out why I hate pollyannaism .  There was always an enormous disconnect for me -- because the most pollyanna peopl...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

So there is still the problem of violence

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People seem to be talking about a Universal Basic Income Guarantee . I think the conversation is a good thing and this idea may indeed be th...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Freud reconceptualized

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Freud got there via a different route (a much more arduous route) but at the end of the day, the Id/It, the Ego, and the Superego are just t...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Greatest break up speech ever!

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Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) and Samantha (Scarlett Johansson) in "Her": [Theodore] "Samantha why are you leaving?" [...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Some thoughts on splitting

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Psychoanalysts will tell you a lot about " splitting " which is defined as " the failure in a person's thinking to bring ...

Some thoughts while reading Higgins and Dow

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Politics Against Pessimism: Social Democratic Possibilities Since Ernst Wigforss  by Winton Higgins and Geoff Dow is a magnificent book.  ...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

Some thoughts on strategy

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So both Gandhi and King, correctly understood: 1.) that society is organized in a sadomasochistic fashion and that 2.) participating in that...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Planning for Utopia, overcoming the contradictions of the human condition

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Okay so there are lots of articles out there on the contradictions of capitalism and the inherent weaknesses of capitalism and the profound ...
Monday, June 23, 2014

On domination

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It seems to me that opportunity is the source of domination not capitalism per se.  People dominate if they have the opportunity and if the...