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  • Commentary: The Ongoing Technological Threat to Human Sanity and Freedom

    See, this is our problem right here. We don’t seem to know it, but our minds are also partly an electrical field phenomena. We are not only our biological physiognomy, and our touch screen devices are now disrupting the sorts of natural processes this linked article describes in addition to all the malicious behavioral psychology…

  • Hot Take: On “American Exceptionalism”

    In its original historical conception, the idea behind “American Exceptionalism” was that, since in its founding, the America nation broke with the Old World culture of inherited social class and political authority, America began life as a potentially classless society in which the traditional distinctions between the ruling class (the “right wing”) versus the ordinary…

  • Poem: A Long Walk Home Sick Home

    I was walking A long winding roadWith nowhere to go Only somewhere To leave As far behind meAs I couldWhen suddenly itStarted to snowTurned bitterly coldBut I had no warm coatI was a single mote of snowSpinning in the wind’s flowAll alone in a howling voidThen I woke up Back on the roadBut now my…

  • Poem: Freedom Train

    “There is no accident,” the train conductor saidAs the train foundered off the tracks and plungedStraight down the side of a mountain so steepIt seemed to have no bottom, only disappearedInto a mist, forever, until small birds even started flapping around your head as you hung there, Upside down in your seat belt–on closer look,…

  • Poem: Phantom Limb Pains

    Suddenly you’ve got them, onlyNot the usual way, where youFeel an ache in a lost limb you Once had but misplaced, yourself, No, you never had these limbs But all at once, from thousands Of stray memories–a drowsy sortOf shared, animal memory–you feelIt all, all limbs from all kinds of beingEvery gesture ever made in…

  • Hot Take: On the Heresy of So-Called “Christian Nationalism”

    In reality, Separation of Church and State is one of the historically defining features of real Christian nations (for the obvious reasons that Jesus was tortured and brutally executed by one of human history’s most vicious mergers of state and church authority and Jesus himself explicitly taught against mixing state and religion in his own…