January 2009
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The Politics of Optimism: Excerpt from...
“Optimism is a political act.
Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the seeds of mistrust between those you would rule...
November 2008
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Virtual Love? Video-Games of Tommorow
Video-games are a landmark of our cohort.
Months spent eagerly waiting the next-gen console release, saving up to buy the latest sequel to a favorite game series, or meeting up at a friends house to either tag-team in virtual reality or fight to the ‘death’ invoke nostalgic memories within our generations collective memory. And who could forget fervently fighting against the...
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Thoughts on Obama Win
This morning I woke up to my cynicism getting a white hot blow to the teeth. Is the darkness of the Bush years finally over? Is this really happening?
Obama won the 2008 elections by a landslide. And I, no doubt, am excited.
But don’t get me wrong. I’m no Obama fan-boy, I don’t hang by every eloquent re-phrase of ‘Yes We Can’ that comes out of his mouth.
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WatchHarnessing the Power Of The Brain
The Triumph Of Ignorance by George Monbiot
By George Monbiot
29 October, 2008
Monbiot.com
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and other such gibbering numbskulls get to where they are? How could Republican rallies in...
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October 2008
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“An idea is something you have;
an ideology is something that has you.”
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– A Memetic Lexicon
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*5 WORLD-CHANGING Projects & Inventions to Watch...
http://www.verticalfarm.com/ The Vertical Farm Project: With the unsustainable demands traditional agriculture places on the land, along with the demands for food placed by over-population and the urbanization of our agragian areas, Vertical Farms are our answer; indoor solar & wind powered sky-scraping vertical farms.
http://www.starsightproject.com/ The Starsight Project: Solar powered...
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Made in China?
Pick up any item near you, and look on its underside, what do you see? ‘Made in China’, ‘Made in Taiwan’, or sometimes ‘Made in Vietnam’. Most of our clothes and every-day objects were made elsewhere outside the U.S. for dirt-cheap slave-wages. On the flip-side, unemployment rates here in the U.S. are higher than they have been since the great depression. What...
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Welcome to the Future
Within our personal lives, nothing moves us, motivates us, and embodies our potential more than the interior domains of the mind. Within our cultural matrix, the underlying currents that move, motivate, and embody our collective potential exist within a sphere we can call our ‘collective mind’. To know thyself is the name of the game, and to know ourselves is to know our world. There...