Category Archives: delusions of progress

Lena Dreams of the Wetlands

Posted on September 5, 2015 by randomyriad

Lena hadn’t thought about manatees in several years, but that did not stop her from dreaming about them that night in July. The merganser is the kind of crested duck that will rip your heart out of your living body, and then … Continue reading →

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It Is The Time of Monsters and We Keep Feeding the Monsters

Posted on August 4, 2015 by randomyriad

“Perhaps the most succinct characterization of the epoch which began with the First World War is the well-known phrase attributed to Gramsci: “The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Survival, Questioning the Obvious and The Rejection of Complicity in the Madness: We Need to Think About These Things.

Posted on July 4, 2015 by randomyriad

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of … Continue reading →

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Education Does Not Necessarily Lead to Wisdom

Posted on July 1, 2015 by randomyriad

human dignity cannot be taken away by the government. Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity … Continue reading →

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Pieces of a Puzzle

Posted on June 22, 2015 by randomyriad

The crisis before us is the culmination of a 500-year global rampage of conquering, plundering, exploiting, and polluting the earth— as well as killing by Europeans and Euro-Americans of the indigenous communities that stood in their way. The technical and … Continue reading →

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