Climate Strike v. Occupy: Do Protests Matter? (Dreaming Dangerously 7)

Do protests and demonstrations accomplish anything? And, if they often don’t, why? Answering that question should determine what we choose to do, and how, in any particular call for action. Zizek’s Chapter 7 on Occupy Wall Street serves as a launching pad for some observations on political demonstrations, including the Climate Strike scheduled for September 20, 2019. … More Climate Strike v. Occupy: Do Protests Matter? (Dreaming Dangerously 7)

Not Jordan Peterson’s Carl Jung (A Reading From My New Book)

From Jung, After the Catastrophe: “Thanks to industrialization, large portions of the population were up-rooted and were herded together in large centres. This new form of existence—with its mass psychology and social dependence on the fluctuations of markets and wages—produced an individual who was unstable, insecure, and suggestible. He was aware that his life depended on boards of directors and captains of industry, and he supposed, rightly or wrongly, that they were chiefly motivated by financial interests. He knew that, no matter how conscientiously he worked, he could still fall a victim at any moment to economic changes which were utterly beyond his control. And there was nothing else for him to rely on.” … More Not Jordan Peterson’s Carl Jung (A Reading From My New Book)

“Frankenfoods” and Big Ag: Three Perspectives

A comparison of three perspectives on technology and food production, Pamela Ronald, an advocate for the use of GMO’s to alleviate global malnutrition but not necessarily for profit, Robert Fraley (Monsanto), an advocate of big ag techniques as a way to feed the world, and Wendell Berry, advocate of traditional farming and local self-sufficiency and critic of big ag. … More “Frankenfoods” and Big Ag: Three Perspectives