Like many of you I’ve been an activist a long time. It’s really not hard to see the system is corrupt, so the hard part’s really been not going insane being surrounded by people who don’t want to do a damn thing to change anything for the...
Originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog. It’s a familiar story. On his final journey toward Jerusalem, Jesus stops in Bethany to eat at the home of Simon, a leper. A woman enters with an alabaster jar of expensive ointment; she breaks the jar and pours...
The corporate government has created a gulag for the American people. For most of us, it is a work camp in which we barely get enough to provide basic security. Per government records, only 10% own their own homes outright despite generations of us working endlessly...
I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small...
The world is changing rapidly and deeply. If you consider yourself a citizen of a nation, a society or humanity, you must be concerned for its future, because of all the uncertainty the changes are causing. If you are paying attention it probably scares you,...
