TheOtherLeft

I think there is more here than Apple missing the mark with the new iPad education program. First let me say that I primarily use an iPad for anything outside of my office. I don’t love it but I don’t love any of these things anymore as I’ve been in the industry for too many years. I once loved Apple but then discovered there was more to life than a…

The consolidation of the economy in a limited number of giant corporations is a major factor in the failure of the economic recovery. While this is apparent it has been obscured by the massive shift from traditional multinational corporations to the the new, transformative digital behemoths. The changes have brought a completely new order to the…

How many of us are struggling to get this synthesis in place? The only hope for this country is to break free of the 20th century entanglements but that will not be allowed. The oligarchy is a parasite that feeds on us but they are weak. First they had to destroy hope and then destroy faith in our ability to rule ourselves. That allowed them to gain…

You have it clearly identified although I wouldn’t call it political rage but a poor and studied attempt to distort reality. I’ve never sensed much passion in the postings. Just as most other regulars here don’t bother to read, let alone respond to these things, they still appear and are usually within the range of highly opinionated. Who here will…

Finding Earth 2

Identifying the Currents

by Mike Meyer

The structural failures under it all

This is an excellent summary of where we are and the realistic range of actions we can expect. While I’m not optimistic about the survival of the US in anything like its present form, there is a chance that a complete change of Congress and the executive this year…

You are certainly correct that socialism has not failed but some basic assumptions are, I think, no longer relevant. Capitalism is failing. That has been obvious for a long time. The great change that is required of people now depends on handling greater complexity starting with understanding that systems fail, not because they are inherently wrong…

We no longer have the nerve to take things apart to make them better. Now we must wait for them to break so can do a bad job of fixing them because a fix is always rushed. We understand rushed. We don’t understand human design for social components. In fact we’re scared because we’ve been told that is bad. Only social accidents are ok. But they seem to lead to the same people winning. Not us.

I really wish this had made me feel better than it did. It’s been about ten years since I was able to drive around the the US seeing the reality. All of my travel has been, whether business or family, to metropolitan areas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and most recently Philadelphia. The latter was vibrant and completely different than I remember…