3 months-not bad. I’ve been swamped, both at work and at home. Things are compressing and getting worse. No money, just bad. The boys are getting more difficult and nothing helps. I wish there was an easy solution. At least the Steiner stuff is going well. Still working on it.
Honestly, I don’t know what to say anymore. No one is really listening, and it really doesn’t make much of a difference even if they did. I’m just not that important to the way things are right now-my voice is really one in the wilderness, and very few are listening among the clamour of a very loud culture. After so many years, I’ve just given up, and resigned myself to working on myself, and posting here just to make sure I remember events in my life, time as it passes. I’d like to get my dreams and essays up here, but blogger seems not to like the xml I generate. Eventually I need to develop the entire bit here, so that it’s much more accessible than on my regular homepage. I’m hoping that I can get this all done-I want there to be growth and movement in our world so that more people will come to this place-the whole standing on the shoulders of giants, basically-our world requires this of us, and needs it too. I need to develop myself, so that I can communicate these things.
Recap (as much as I can remember-I didn’t make a draft this time): dentist’s, filling, kid’s too. Salem rash, Christmas, very cold. Salem in church play. Conflicts. Einstein on the Beach streamed from Paris!!! We got our mail hijacked. Gamelan-working on the mass. Mathias, Dr.’s visit, project and high school. Worries. Not much else.
I have a big list of links:
www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue64/Smith64.pdf, Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans, Something Is Really Wrong with the USA | Alternet, As America Slides Toward Dickensian Nightmare, Novelist of the 99% Is Trending Big-Time | Alternet, An Open Letter to You, Noam Chomsky: America Is a Terrified Country | Alternet, Inequality Is (Literally) Killing America | The Nation, “We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis | Alternet, “We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis | Alternet, An Economic Cancer: The Top 1% Earns More Than the Bottom 50%, We Live in an Era of Zombie Politics: Bill Moyers Interviews Henry Giroux | Alternet, “We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis | Alternet, Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet, Shielding a Flickering Flame, Understanding Warsaw: Capitalism, Climate Change and Neocolonialism, Pope Says Unfettered Capitalism is A New Tyranny (It is about time), How to Escape the Awful Feeling of Being Trapped in Life | Alternet, Capitalism is the new tyrrany, proclaims Pope Francis, Rich People Actually Don’t Create The Jobs – Business Insider, How America Continues to Suffer the Male Rage of the ‘White Wing’ | Alternet, A Pope’s Pointed Message, Corporate Elites Are Witnessing a Growing Wave of Resistance to the ‘Walmartization’ of Our Economy | Alternet, Dialectical Communitarian Anarchism as the Negation of Domination: A Review of “The Impossible Community”, From Rome, Five Basic Insights on Inequality, Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism, Global Elites Getting Nervous About Skyrocketing Inequality (But Won’t Spare a Nickel to Fix It) | Alternet, Why Americans Are So Ignorant — It’s Not Only Fox News, There Are Some Understandable Reasons for it | Alternet, 6 Signs Our Culture Is Sick With Greed | Alternet, The ‘Axis of Evil,’ Revisited, How the Christian Right Plays Victim While Imposing Its Ideology on America | Alternet, Creator of ‘The Wire’ Says ‘There Are Now Two Americas. My Country Is a Horror Show.’ | Alternet, Time to be Afraid in America: The Frightening Pattern of Throwing Police Power at Social Problems | Alternet, Jesus’ Mom was a Punk., 3 Ways the Super-Rich Suck Wealth out of the Rest of Us | Alternet, Henry A. Giroux | The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy, Look at the Stats — America Resembles a Broken Banana Republic | Alternet, What Happened On Easter Island – A New (Even Scarier) Scenario : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR, Time to be Afraid in America: The Frightening Pattern of Throwing Police Power at Social Problems | Alternet, Machines of Loving Grace, The Time for Wealth Redistribution Is Now | Alternet, Why the Christian Right Is Obsessed With the Collapse of Civilization | Alternet, Bill Moyers | The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy, For Republicans, a Homeless, 11-year-old Black Girl Named Dasani is a ‘Useless Eater’ Who Should Die | Alternet, America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet – Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way? | Alternet, Conservatives: Always On The Wrong Side Of History –, Are Economic Royalists Leading the US Over a Precipice?, Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction, It’s Not OK That Your Employees Can’t Afford to Eat – Peter Cappelli – Harvard Business Review, Rich Man’s Recovery – NYTimes.com, When Happiness Died in America…, The GOP Is in Total Denial About America’s Soaring Poverty Problems | Alternet, States of Consciousness, Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons, The GOP Is a Cult Worthy of Jim Jones, Why the GOP Is So Extremist and Reactionary | Alternet, Any Hope Of American Equality Died In The 1980s (And Here’s Proof), 5 ways the Christian right is twisting religion to push conservative dogma – Salon.com, Why High Unemployment Actually Destroys the Fabric of American Life | Alternet, Why the GOP Is So Extremist and Reactionary | Alternet, The Illusion Of Matter: Our Physical Reality Isn’t Really Physical At All, How Our Food Has Become a Dangerous Addiction | Alternet, Massive Inequality Didn’t Just Happen-It Was Engineered by Conservative Government Policies | Alternet, Merry Christmas Satan… | Ronni Thomas, Capitalism, Ecology and the Official Invisibility of Women, 3 Shocking Ways Inequality Keeps Getting Worse in America | Alternet, Noam Chomsky: The Richest Countries Are Racing Us Towards Disaster While ‘Primitive’ Societies Are Trying to Stop It | Alternet, Climate Change Worse Than We Thought, Likely To Be ‘Catastrophic Rather Than Simply Dangerous’, You Won’t Believe Conservatives’ Absurd Theories They Think Will Cure Poverty | Alternet, Stephen Herrington: Why Reaganomics Fails — Succinctly, Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer Than You May Realize – How Do We Finish the Job?, The Real Reason the Middle Class Is Dead | Alternet, Capitalism in Crisis: Who Are the Real “Takers”?, Humanity in Flux: Would a Species That Recognizes Its Own Worth Be Actively Destroying Itself?, Dumbing America Down, Conservative Style | Alternet, American Jihad 2014: The New Fundamentalists, Chomsky: How Can We Escape the Curse of Economic Exploitation and Political Enslavement? | Alternet, Inside the Right-Wing Love Affair with Conspiracy Theories | Alternet, Noam Chomsky: U.S. Politics Are Now ‘Pure Savagery’, Why So Much Religion Is Oppressive | Alternet, Everything You’ve Been Told About How to Eat Is Wrong | Alternet, Skeptics Gone Wild: Navigating America’s Conspiracy Theory Culture | Alternet, Why So Much Religion Is Oppressive | Alternet, Some Folks Say It’s the Beginning of the End for the Christian Right — Dream On, They’re Getting More Powerful | Alternet, What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend? – NYTimes.com, Economic Growth Is Killing Us, Walking into the World | Centre for Social Poetry, How Three Decades of Reaganomics Destroyed the American Economy – Yahoo Voices – voices.yahoo.com, Why Aren’t We Having a Middle Class Revolt? | Alternet, The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies