Russell and George discuss the collapse of democracy as an effective political system and ask “what’s next?” Monbiot offers a potential for a new democracy based on community and belonging.  You can hear the spiritual overtones as Monbiot and Brand discuss a politics of attachment, mutual regard and community https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/011-fascism-or-democracy-is-this-our-last-chance-to/id1212064750?i=1000385544050&mt=2 Monbiot has a new book coming… Read More Monbiot and Brand: Fascism or Democracy?

Joe BrewerMay 17, 2017, originally published at Medium Storm clouds gather for a future that will be turbulent and dangerous. We need designers ready for this future. Design schools all over the world are failing their students by ignoring the most important challenges they will face as they live through a time of unprecedented disruption and… Read More A Design School for Planetary Collapse

The Deconstructed Church, by Gerardo Marti and Gladys Ganiel (Oxford University Press, 2014), reflects many of the observations and ideas that I have written about in this blog, as part of my own experience as a Buddhist. I have often said (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), that Buddhism has survived through 2600 years… Read More The Self-Deconstructed Religion

Still confused about how to join the resistance? I got wrote a song just for you! Day 2 creating things! Follow me on Instagram for more videos and outtakes. Including me almost being killed while making this video. Instagram: dasangeles #resist #trump #resisttrump #buddhism #gay #comey #fakenews #pablodas A post shared by Pablo (Paul) Das… Read More Pabo Das: How to join the Resistance

Ajahn Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu was a 20th century Thai monk (1906-1993) who was the forerunner, indeed the founder, of Buddhist Modernism. Now before you start quoting David McMahan and insisting that Buddhist Modernism was invented by Western colonialists who invaded Asia, stole Asian culture and anglicized it, or that it was merely a reaction to Western colonialism—STOP. Asian… Read More Buddhadasa: the Birth of Modernism

[editor: the following article by Daniel Christian Wahl is a brilliant analysis of the evolution of “being” from holism, in which self is not distinguished, to individualism or ‘selfism’, in which the ego-centric is primary, to interbeing, in which self-and-world arise together through ‘structural coupling’, His explanation is based, as he states at the beginning, on… Read More Holism, Seflism, Interbeing

The Future is a “Pluriverse”- An Interview with David Bollier on the Potential of the Commons Interview by Antonis Brumas and Yavor Tarinski, originally published at Transnational Institute of Social ecology Some believe that the commons are incompatible with commodity markets. Others claim that markets and commons may form mutually beneficial relations with each other. What… Read More The Commons as Political economy