I wonder ( Read more... )

The future of Michigan is grim. At this point in time, as I surmised and began talking about three years ago, the domestic automakers are on the brink of bankruptcy ( Read more... )

Derrick Jensen's lecture Endgame details the dire situation we've gotten ourselves into, and posits that we will not change our ways, at least not of our own accord. Only a doomsday, of sorts, will be enough, a great crisis, to get us to wake up and change our behavior. While the Ancient Maya may have believed that the year 2012 A.D. would see ( Read more... )

"The Story of B" is a novel written by Daniel Quinn regarding the ultimate flaw of our culture. Quinn defines our culture is that which has adopted "totalitarian agriculture". This form of agriculture obliterated all former culture, which had lived sustainably as part of nature. Now, with peak oil upon us, the goal of finding the secrets to a ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Daniel Quinn's famous novel "Ishmael". The book is a mind walk back into the past to find the solution to our current problems. Quinn suggests several reasons on how things got this way. After reading, it is proper that a summary be in order ( Read more... )

In the last handful of years, I have began wondering about the realities of it all. Who among us is speaking the truth? Who among us has the conviction to speak without restricition ( Read more... )