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May 28, 2021

First World Solutions Are Not Resolving Third World Problems

Gabre-Madhin (2007) had great hopes for the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange. She deserves tremendous praise for her apparent deeply compassionate and sincere work to resolve complex and intractable problems. Her intended solution seems to temporarily solve surface-level problems for some, but ultimately exacerbates even deeper-rooted challenges of economic sustainability. Nearly a…

Africa

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Africa

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Nov 16, 2020

Busyness and Worthiness

In response to the question about what it means to live a good life, Liz Gilbert stated this: It’s to know that you are loved…by the divine…not a small L that is dependent upon other people or other things working out in a way that you want them to….that whatever…

Worthiness

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Worthiness

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Jun 10, 2020

A better idea for the stimulus money: Grants to all non-profits

Collaboration consultant Miki Kashtan explains that change happens in four stages, which title the subsections that follow. 1. We recognize what isn’t working. What isn’t working is the current neoliberal economic and social structure, the income inequality. If we stop arguing about how and why that happened, the 99% of…

Politics

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A better idea for the stimulus money: Grants to all non-profits
A better idea for the stimulus money: Grants to all non-profits
Politics

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Jun 9, 2020

A better idea for the next stimulus money: Pay off peoples housing

As you may be aware, “Billions are going to zillionaires under the guise of pandemic relief,” reports a New York Times journalist. Now they’re planning the next one. Obviously the U.S. economy is going from bad to worse. Multi billionaire Nick Hanauer has been trying to convince his “fellow plutocrats”…

Equality

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A better idea for the next stimulus money: Grants to all non-profits and pay off housing
A better idea for the next stimulus money: Grants to all non-profits and pay off housing
Equality

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Jun 5, 2020

How to implement affordable health care in the U.S.

Collaboration consultant Miki Kashtan explains that change happens in these four stages, which also title the subsections that follow. Recognize what isn’t working: highest per-capita spending & highest administrative costs Recognize what alternatives are available: single-payer system & emphasize prevention Trust that we have the capacity to reach an alternative…

Single Payer

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Single Payer

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May 31, 2020

The Simple Obvious Answer for Why Our Modern Way of Life Now Sucks Even for the Middle Class

We don’t want to believe pain and discomfort are inevitable for everyone, especially for ourselves. It’s true that we have some choice about how much we suffer. The Buddha as well as famed modern psychologist M. Scott Peck and psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis all have agreed that pain is an inescapable…

Neoliberalism

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Neoliberalism

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May 13, 2020

Former Atheists Encounter the Spirit Realm

The debate about evidence for or against the “near-death experience” phenomenon being brain-based is simply another version of the argument between what we could call traditionally a reductionist/materialist view and a dualist view (altho a monist view doesn’t preclude consciousness after death). There can’t be solid proof either way. The…

Death

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Death

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May 7, 2020

The Less-considered Upsides of Localized Economies

Whether or not you believe in the possibility of life-after-death experience (near-death experience or NDE), you might find the following description interesting as a basis for a thought experiment about whether a collective of independent socio-political and economic structures would be feasible. This is reminiscent of some regions of Europe…

Economics

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The Less-considered Upsides of Localized Economies
The Less-considered Upsides of Localized Economies
Economics

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Apr 10, 2020

Victory Gardens

These honorable pessimists. Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky work tirelessly to help us get over our denial of how bad it really is. They decry the stupidity of positive thinking, or in other words, magical thinking, the belief that if we focus on what we want, the horrors will simply…

Activism

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Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens
Activism

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Apr 5, 2020

NDE as Social Commentary & a Case for Peaceable Solutions

I have three close friends who each had a few minutes of flat-lining during a surgery. They described to me (only because I asked) a near death experience (NDE). Two said it seemed more real than their current life, not like a dream. Because I know them as otherwise smart…

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NDE as Social Commentary & a Case for Peaceable Solutions
NDE as Social Commentary & a Case for Peaceable Solutions

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