Beyond Democracy

by Mike Meyer

So how do we get out of this mess? We all know the mess we are in. It is planet wide…

As we watch Trump burn out . . .

This is not another rehash of the week’s Trump disaster. On purely subjective level, at least for…

The next step for the next stage

The next stage of collapse is depressing but ends with a note of hope. Can we rebuild the right way? Can we replace the government and economy we have with something that actually provides what the majority want rather than the small, corporatist elite’s demand for more…

Yes, we have this backwards

We have a long history of backing into the future. Humans tend to lead with their asses. Another way to look…

It seemed like a good idea at the time . . . A famous lament of those that follow the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ as a good, pragmatic strategy. These things are formally defined as triangles with positive and negative relationships. If two share friendship for the third it is stable. If two hate the shit out of the third it is stable. But the…

Redefining Democracy Part 2

The review

Yes, we are all, at least a bit, hysterical. That is a necessity in an age of fundamental change. It’s a survival trait as massive social restructuring requires destruction to allow new growth. The path that was there for years may not lead to where you expect it to go today. In fact that is another way to look at the sudden, seemingly insane…

The Problem of Predicting the Future

We all know how hard this prediction stuff really is. So we laugh at horoscopes, signs, birth…