Thoughts on the megamachine
A fundamental concept of the Green movement, I believe, is the idea that there has been a Great Schism of Lifeways in the human experience.
On the one hand we can talk about the Old Ways (as Gary… more
LIVING GREEN IN COHOUSING event in PA
LIVING GREEN IN COHOUSING
Saturday, June 3 - 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
West Chester, PA
(20 miles west of Philadelphia)
Featuring:
LIZ WALKER
Co-founder and director of… more
Requires too much drone work, too many hassles
It’s all too hyper out there . . . too high maintenance!
All the work, all the stress, all the hurry . . . wherever do we think we’re going?!
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The Chinese have… more
There is a Third Way
Neither corporatism nor statism . . .The solution is renewal of community
Book review:
EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture
by Liz Walker
Review by Steve Welzer
From Green… more
Ideology/Big Government - reply to reader
In response to my post “Ideology and Big Government II” someone wrote:
> You rather routinely try to portray
> conservatives and even libertarians
> as having something positive to say.
>… more
Ideology and Big Government II
The Green Party needs to be careful about falling into a pattern of sounding too much like a liberal or social democratic party, especially around the issue of big government solutions to problems.
In Germany we saw a… more
Fromm and Goldsmith: Toward a Sane Society
In his book The Sane Society, Erich Fromm conjectured that a whole society could go insane. He suggested that the growth/expansion/development-oriented trajectory of our civilization has been leading us in that direction. There was not yet a Green movement at… more
Verbiage and ideology
Among the recognizable ideologies, Anarchism might be the least understood.
The prefix “An” (from Greek usage) means No (or Against).
“Archon” means “Ruler.”
So “Anarchy” originally meant “no rulers” or “against the idea of… more
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