Human social systems and technology are not capable and never will be capable of understanding land on a large scale in a sustainable fashion.
Where does the desire for understanding foreign lands come from? A desire to understand the other. To participate in, specifically to dominate, the exotic…By understanding the scale of [...]

“All systems are necessarily abstractions, and all generalization violates the living reality of the individual”-Bakunin
“When People are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The People’s Stick’.”
My history is strongly rooted in the working class.  I think I get my radical tendencies from my father who was a [...]

“I’m not speaking to Pamela,” said Beezus.
“Why not?” Ramona often yelled at people, but never refused to speak. Nothing could happen if you didn’t speak, and she liked things to happen.
-from Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary

“Addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia.  The drive to return to the past isn’t an innocent one.  It’s about stopping your passage to the future, it’s a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience.
And the love  of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage [...]

My Sister died from clogged arteries at the age of 40 about 6 years ago.  She weighed over 500 lbs.  She couldn’t walk more than a block without resting, had really bad knee problems and ate all the time.
My father is diabetic.  He gives himself insulin shots like 5 times per day and he still [...]

My Ass. Some guys think it is fat, some guys think it is phat. Black boys like to stare at it and talk about it. White boys don’t. Regardless, men almost always seem to have an opinion about it. They either love it or they hate it.

Some people use it to judge [...]