By Murray Bookchin
[Originally published in Bookchin’s newsletter Comment in 1964 and republished in the British monthly Anarchy in 1965.]
I am posting part of the essay/manifesto (it can be found here in full):
In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch...
Part I
The internet is not yours, it never was yours. I'm sorry, it just isn't. It is owned by large telecommunication companies that decide who does what with their infrastructure. Like any public infrastructure, users have to adhere to certain rules for the whole thing to function. The problem is it is easy to think that while spending...
A compelling, thought provoking and eloquently written science fiction novel written by Robert Silverberg. It is essentially a dystopian novel, following many of the main themes explored by "We" (by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921), "Brave New World" (by the great Aldous Huxley, 1932) and "A Modern Utopia" (by H.G....
These are the ones who fooled themselves...
"Belief in God is stupid, illogical & insane" They shout. United. Not a bad beginning.
Atheism is becoming a religion. They are uniting against religions, all of them. Wishing to get it abolished, to rebuild the twin towers, undo the crusades. Fuck them right? It's their freedoms,...
I'm guilty.
I'm guilty for living the life I live, for having the things I have.
I'm as scared of global warming as most people, more than most people, probably.
But almost every day, you know, I get in a car, and I drive somewhere.
Somewhere that often is only a mile away from where I live.
I could get on my bike, put on my helmet, ride down...
At my school chapel; where I am forced to visit periodically, The Reverend recently gave a fairly blunt attack on Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion'. While I haven't read his book, I had a fair few problems with some of the things with what our minister was saying. At the end of his speech he invited anyone with their own arguments to get back to...
It has been over two years since i wrote the below.
I have since learned that the will is free. Choice is not merely an illusion, a mechanism of the mind for abstracting meaning. Rather, it is (as I describe above in "Metaphysics" a demonstration of value.
In time I will write the rebuttal to my argument...
This a nice collection of illustrations of the contemporary mind (my tittle), by David Plunkert and Leigh Wells. The illustrations were published in Time Magazine and other places.
Enjoy :-)
clipped from www.time.com
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