Is the tale a premise for the struggle between ‘fascism’ and ‘the wild’? Is fascism a polarity to the wild? Or is the tension between the two more complex? What do we mean by ‘fascism’? And what do we mean by ‘the wild’?
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‘Trans’ comes from the Greek ‘across’, and ‘librium’ is from the Greek ‘libra’ which connotes both balance (equilibrium) and freedom (‘libre’, liberty). Whereas ‘homeostasis’ assumes a return to an initial state as a descriptor of health, ‘translibrium’ assumes continuous adaptation as a requisite for survival.
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Addictions are dark angels you must wrestle to win their blessing.
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This IGNITE Talk (5 mins, 15 secs per slide – GO!) was presented at the Web of Change Conference Sept. 2013, at Balcones Springs just outside of Austin, TX. Huge thanks to the WOCMob for welcoming this errant pitch! In response to my opening statement “I’m curious why orgs and people fiercely protect outrageous poisonous
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The current Canadian government’s energy policy, as espoused recently by Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver, is so out of touch with climate change science, and so aggressively opposed to it, that it can only be deemed pathological. The pathology is addiction, and the addiction is to oil.
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By ‘free speech’ some folks mean not ‘freedom’, or more specifically the ‘freedom to speak to power’, they mean speaking without constraint: saying whatever you want, whenever you want, about whoever you want, wherever you want. The notion that ‘freedom’ equates with ‘no constraint’ or ‘doing what you want’ is a notion that’s workable until
‘Free speech,’ ‘freedom,’ the CRTC and Sun News Read More »
If, as Chogyam Trungpa wrote, “Disappointment is the best chariot on the road of the dharma”, does that mean that enlightenment is best defined as ‘ultimate disappointment’?
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A mild rant in response to someone trolling comments in Tzeporah Berman’s article ‘Let’s Stop Catering to big Oil’. “’Climate Change’. A Chicken little story so bad they had to change the name from ‘global warming’ to something that must always happen; climate change.” The debate over human caused climate change is over. There is
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The abstract heirlooms in which our infant minds are wrapped, swathed and swaddledare like cocoons;perceptual wombs which may,initially,protect, prepare, and secure us,but may,eventually,contain,then condition,then regulate,then restrain,then constrain,then restrict,then constrict,then strangulate,then finally entombthe revelation of possibility. Unable to fulfil their metamorphosis the cocoons corrupt.Fledgeling minds wither within eggshell tombs.Their aborted blooms,well preserved,are quickly conveyed to serve
Addiction is freedom from choice. cf. Sartre’s “You are condemned to be free.” + Dostoyevsky’s ‘Grand Inquisitor’
Addiction is freedom from choice. Read More »