The Story of World 5.0 – Jim Prues
So it was August 8th, 2004 when, while walking my wolf-dog, I stopped in my tracks. World 5.0 had just popped into my head. World 5.0, I said to myself…
Mississippi God Damn
The ongoing water crisis in capital city Jackson is torturous for those folks living there, and plenty hurtful to the rest of us who are paying attention. It was a…
Capitalism can not survive the Singularity
Super AI will finally teach us we don’t need money There are four phases to the emergence of AI. The first incantation of simple artificial intelligence was what we call…
The Farmers Awaken (not in the US yet)
A few years ago the farmers of India captured the media’s attention with their blockades of major roads in and out of India’s cities. The Modi government had created and…
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Corporate Boat Versus Life Boat
In the muddle of these times, progressives ’embrace’ the democratic party because they have no alternative. We in the US live in a duopoly, where our votes are limited by…
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Living In Community
Our true destiny…is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places. – David W. Orr Communities are the…
The Permanent War Paradigm
Now that we’re several months into our Ukraine Conflict, we begin to see things a bit more clearly. Putin remains an unstable threat, yet there are undertones and currents which…
2020 Vision
Well, Here we are folks! A pivotal year in so many ways. Climate chaos is upon us. The very fabric of what’s left of our democracy is being hollowed out…
As Our Earth Turns
It’s hard to imagine that there have been times in our civilization’s past where our culture teeters on the edge of an abyss as it does now. We’ve had plenty of…
Woodstock Lives!
The Woodstock Music Festival was held August 15 -18, 1969 in upstate New York. It was in many ways the capstone of an utterly wild time, when young people revolted…