New Year’s Eve, 2025 Suddenly, it is New Year’s Eve. Are your resolutions lined up for after the gluttony and consumerist excess of the “Holiday Season.” Can we make 2026 a good year? Opinions vary, as well they should, given the diverse indicators suggesting multiple sources of chaos emerging. Are you determined to live the … More Living the Good Life in 2026: A Difficult Choice
The perceived need to promote a growth economy is one of the deepest held meta-beliefs underpinning industrial civilization. Capital formation and accumulation is the highest goal of the economy, and debt is the vehicle. But whose debt? Well, just about everyone’s. The vast majority of citizens must take on debt to own a car, a … More Seeking the Good Life: Growth is Not Development
I suppose it is not reasonable to speculate on the limits of human creativity. But one thing is certain. We all have an initial capacity for creative expression, if only in one way and not another. For some, it is crushed by their earliest experiences of life-conditions that I would not wish on anyone. For … More Living the Good Life, Somewhere
Robert MacNeil Christie, Author 