Back to Basics: “Green Transition” Imaginaries and the Limits to Growth

October 8, 2025

[Photo credit: World Economic Forum] Industrial-consumer modernism is often infused with glorified techno-imaginaries, unconstrained by the boundaries of scientific knowledge or by the requirements of achieving a society based on the wellbeing of people, not the accumulation of more capital by the hyper-rich. But what if we were to step back and take a look … More Back to Basics: “Green Transition” Imaginaries and the Limits to Growth

Categorical Consciousness: Imaginaries and Experience

September 10, 2025

What? Well, I was just thinking about how people deal with habits and addictions when either may have both pleasurable and self-destructive consequences. Some folks may be victims of another’s categorization, or of their own. Of course, categorization is a linguistic mechanization that is closely involved with both framing the world for many purposes, and … More Categorical Consciousness: Imaginaries and Experience

The Missing Debate: Modernist Illusions and the Urgency of Now

July 30, 2025

Photo credit: NASA, via Unsplash Earthrise viewed from our moon gave many a broader perspective on the living Earth. There are so many well written and seriously researched analyses of where we are today and where we need to go, that there is simply no way to read them all. Most debates within that literature … More The Missing Debate: Modernist Illusions and the Urgency of Now

A Pain Poem

July 2, 2025

DISCLAIMER: I do not consider myself a poet. I don’t think I’ve written a poem in over forty years. However, the confluence of events in this past week or two, the two eloquent lines bracketing the text I wrote here, and reading the book on immigration, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, … More A Pain Poem

Categorical Consciousness: Imaginaries and Experience

June 4, 2025

Photo credit: R.M. Christie ~ ~ ~ What? Well, I was just thinking about how people deal with habits and addictions when either may have both pleasurable and self-destructive consequences. Some folks may be victims of another’s categorization, especially if it causes them to be ‘disappeared.’ Of course, categorization is a linguistic mechanization that is … More Categorical Consciousness: Imaginaries and Experience

It’s Only the Beginning: Tyranny and Resistance

April 23, 2025

Political power disintegrates when the people withdraw their obedience and support. ~ Gene Sharp The Musk’s hyper-tech-bro ruffians storm-trooping through the federal government has moved as fast as phantom fairy dust from the Wicked Witch of the West. The initial response of widespread protest has moved fast too, but not nearly fast enough to have … More It’s Only the Beginning: Tyranny and Resistance