Category Archives: delusions of progress

These are the Good Old Days

Posted on March 4, 2018 by randomyriad

Wait until now becomes then, then you will see how happy we were. Paraphrased from Susan Sontag, Unguided Tour  

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Science, Silence and the Sound of Spirit

Posted on February 25, 2018 by randomyriad

Two Poems by Jane Hirshfield   ON THE FIFTH DAY On the fifth day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers. The scientists who studied the air were told not to speak of … Continue reading →

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The Problem is Civil Obedience

Posted on February 18, 2018 by randomyriad

via Video: Matt Damon reads from Howard Zinn’s “The Problem is Civil Obedience”

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The Opposite of Civilization

Posted on January 24, 2018 by randomyriad

It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, … Continue reading →

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Quotes from the Tao Te Ching #3

Posted on January 9, 2018 by randomyriad

75 Greed People are starving.  The Rich gobble taxes, That’s why the people are starving.   People rebel.  The rich oppress them, that’s why the people rebel.   People hold life too cheap. The rich make it too costly, that … Continue reading →

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