What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains by Josh Jones  Posted: 24 Jun 2016 09:00 AM PDT We derive adjectives from great writers’ names meant to encapsulate entire philosophies or modes of expression. We have the Homeric, the Shakespearean, the Joycean, etc. Two such adjectives that seem to apply most to our contemporary condition… Read More What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains

[Editor: Whites are now and have always been a minority race in the global population. This article says whites make up 5% of the world’s population. I’ve seen estimates as high as 17% but that depends on who is counted as “white”. The majority of the world’s population, by “race”,  60%, are Asians.] by Jayne Dirt Originally published in… Read More Are Black Folks REALLY a Minority?

JANEY STEPHENSON 20 January 2016. Originally published in Open Democracy. Activists fixate on the future: impatient for the world we want to see. But falling into the capitalist trap of ceaseless productivity leads to burn out. An activist pauses during a demo in Bangkok. Credit: 1000 Words/Shutterstock. Although a lot of activism is anti-capitalist, we are… Read More When resting is resistance

Last week, I  watched the documentary “Major!” on the life of Miss Major Griffin Gracey. Miss Major is a Black transwoman activist, a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion, and advocate for Black and transwomen of colour in prison. Miss Major serves as the Executive Director for the Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project, which advocates for transgender women of… Read More Miss Major: I’m Still Here

This last series of posts, on Krishnamurti’s concept of the the non-individual self, the Commons and the Circular Economy, came as a total surprise. It’s the first time, or one of the few times, that I’ve been able to put together concepts of Buddhist humanist spirituality with ecological models. It gave me the idea that perhaps… Read More Engage Evolves: Upcoming Changes

The following two video follow, in a sense, on Krishnamurti’s proposition about the cessation of the individual self, a fundamentally Buddhist idea. An economy  that has as its foundation non-individual selves could work completely differently. The first, “Commoning,” by Daniel Bollier, speaks about governance of the Commons as a process of mutually concerned and democratic decision-making. The video does not address… Read More Non-Self, the Commons and the Circular Economy

Fourth seminar from a series of six entitled “When the illusion of individuality ends.” Krishnamurti asks:” What is the quality of the mind that is no loner self-centred?” Q: What takes place in the mind that sees that it is part of the whole? What is right action in this world? Is individual action right… Read More Krishnamurti: You Are Humanity