What happens after Capitalism? What is life like? Now that Capitalism has captured and colonized, appropriated (stolen), marketed and sold back to us every facet of our own lives, our relationships, needs, desires, cultures, even our ‘spiritualities’, what is left to us when Capitalism dies? As Joe Brewer wrote, “the pain you feel is Capitalism dying.”… Read More Buddhist Futures: The Black Hole of Post-Capitalism
[Editor: I’d like to continue this focus on colonization to examine a little-known doctrine of the Catholic Church, promulgated in the 1450s by Pope Nicholas V, called The Doctrine of Discovery: About forty years before 1492, Pope Nicholas V issued an official document called Romanus Pontifex . . . which serves as the basis for what is… Read More How Europeans ‘Discovered’ America
[Editor: This is an encyclopedic article on the history of colonization as a human practice throughout the centuries and throughout the world. The author(s) assert that the practice of agriculture was the primary impetus of colonization, but I do not share that view. They even site examples of peoples who had no agriculture yet had slaves. But… Read More Colonization: A World Historical Perspective
Engage! is the dharma of critical engagement. Engage! has explored numerous social justice issues, social problems, current events and politics. What Engage! has not focused on, up till now, is social innovation. I have considered in the past focusing on the Commons as a new form of social organization, but that seemed too narrow; the Commons… Read More Dharma of Social Innovation & Creativity
Editor: this brilliant analysis by Matthew Remski clarifies the conflicted relationship that devotees carry for their guru predators that simultaneously attract, frighten and disgust them. This ambivalence drives the devotees to normalize the relationship by attempting to manipulate others into remaining in the abusive guru relationship. A Disorganized Attachment Legacy at Shambhala: Brief Notes on… Read More Women in Shambhala Legitimize Sexual Assault
Engage Editor: Trump the Chump, Patsy for Putin. While Trump does Putin’s bidding destroying NATO and US diplomatic, military and economic alliances around the world, he doesn’t seem to recognize that Putin’s ultimate and final goal is to destroy the US itself. Greed: Capitalism. Hatred: White Supremacy. Delusion: Propaganda. Trump’s only goal is to turn the US into a Russian… Read More America. Destroyed from Within. By Greed. Hatred. And Delusion.
Do Americans Understand They’re Beginning to Commit The Legal Definition of Genocide? No, You Don’t Know What Genocide (Really) Is. But You Should. umair haqueJun 19 Putting little kids in camps. Kids of a certain kind, in camps of a certain kind. Where they are not allowed to hug or be hugged. Where the lights stay… Read More Umair Haque: American Genocide
