Articles of Note

I direct your attention to an excellent article by Carolyn Baker "Unprepared, Uncompensated, and Clueless: The Prophets Have Become Historians." She discusses, quite eloquently and personally, the environmental and systems collapse we are now experiencing.

In a totally different vein, if you are looking for an intensive analysis of capitalism, I encourage you to sit down with the hot drink of your choice and read "Outting the L-word Part II: Nature, Power and Hierarchy" by Andrew S. Taylor. This is truly an exceptional article, and well worth the time to read. Below is a sample:

But let us blink away the pixie-dust for a moment, and consider an alternate possibility: that capitalism, even in its most laissez-faire and "de-regulated" form, is every bit as much "artificial" as Stalinist communism. I am not making an argument about moral equivalence here, nor am I using the term "artificial" in some pejorative sense. I mean, quite literally, that both economic systems are invented, planned, regulated, and can only function by means of an imposed consensus, i.e., by force. Neither represents an integration of the "natural order" into the lives of humans, though the idea that capitalism does is extremely powerful. This explains why, in America, we are loath to challenge it directly. (If it seems that, on this last point, I am smearing the mainstream with a rightward brush, consider Clinton's widespread popularity with the mainstream Left not in spite of, but rather because of an economic policy more rightward than that of any other post-war president).