Newsletter
Subscribe now Money is a political construct. It doesn't matter if it's controlled by government or in some brave new world, a corporation. The key power of any money system is who controls its creation. The ability to create money has never been democratic. Currency is
Newsletter
Subscribe now “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” Martin Luther King Jr. 1967 The American historian Gore Vidal always pointed to passage of “The National Security Act of 1947” as a great turning point for the American republic. The Act institutionalized the Central Intelligence Agency,
Newsletter
A recent idea floated by an English professor reveals our complete lack of understanding in all regards to the politics of technology. The FT writes, Professor Richard Susskind, technology adviser to the Lord Chief Justice and a director of think-tank LegalUK, advocates an independent body necessary to “spot gaps in
Newsletter
Be My Baby And 40 years later, doing a smack-down cover of one those premier junky-songs, there’s a lot more than one thinks You Cant put your Arm around A memory AND, she married and LIVED with phil for 4 years — God Love Her
Newsletter
Note: I'm not going to be chasing events, future predicting, or getting near the American political shit-show. This letter is meant to be entertaining education or educational entertainment, whichever pays more. I need a much bigger audience to continue for any length of time, so please feel free
Newsletter
The Industrial Era was forged by Newtonian physics, a simple understanding of the movement of matter. The technologies derived from this understanding, fired by abundant and relatively inexpensive coal, oil, and natural gas, reshaped the ecology of the planet. Our understanding of ecology, that is biology, is relatively new. Technologies
Newsletter
Art is a very nebulous term, artist even more so. Many years ago, I was at a party talking with an interesting fellow who was a research neurobiologist. Someone walked up to us and introduced themselves as an artist. The biologist replied, “Such that we all are.” That was both
Newsletter
Subscribe now Natural gas is in the news so much lately, you'd think it was oil. Natural gas is basically oil matter that was exposed to greater pressures and higher temperatures. It’s comprised of the same organic life from tens to hundreds of million years ago. Most
Newsletter
Two in one week, Richard Leakey joins E.O. Wilson. Voices for wildlife conservation have always been too few, always overwhelmed by industrialism's cacophony. Leakey was a great voice for and actor in conserving the ecology of Africa, where, as he helped prove, we as a species were
Newsletter
Subscribe now Elections are necessary for democracy. To carry the weight of effective democratic governance, elections need to be considered credible, that is free and fair by all participants. At times, all democracies struggle with election processes. Over the last couple decades, the din from all sides questioning the soundness
Newsletter
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. It is extremely difficult for any person born into industrial society to understand any alternative. Pre-industrial life is now labeled poverty, certainly no one wants poverty. Industrial life
Newsletter
Thank you for reading Life in the 21st Century. This post is public so feel free to share it. A number of years ago for a Christmas gift, I gave two of my young nieces E.O. Wilson's encyclopedic, The Ants. A few years ago, I was talking