God Bless, America
July’s Song of the Month
Month: July 2020
In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Money
“As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded.
When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?
When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts?
And so on. In the meantime, things are going to get very murky.”
– Gustave Flaubert
Naysayer
The next chapter of “How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld”.
In Debt We Trust
“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.” – Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
An Invitation
The next chapter of “How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld”.
What Is Our Economic Problem?
“We do not need to have a picture of what a true world would be like in order to feel that there is something radically wrong with the world that exists.”
― John Holloway
You Are Loved
I’ve recently signed up for a collaborative creative platform called Hitrecord. I was just invited to contribute to a project by contributing a short poem based on the theme “You Are Loved”. This is what I wrote.
From Eden to Agriculture
“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” – Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
The Golden Spiral
The next chapter of “How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld”.
Money, Sex, Power & Faith – Episode 1 – Preface
Watch the first episode of my new web series “Money, Sex, Power & Faith”!