Category: Politics
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The Unsettling of America: Wendell Berry’s Case Against Scale
Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America argues that industrial farming destroys land, community and character at once — one ideology, three casualties.
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Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams: A Lake and a Mother Rise
Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge binds a rising Great Salt Lake to a dying mother, and ends by naming the Nevada Test Site as the cause of both griefs.
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The Love Book: Lenore Kandel and San Francisco’s Last Trial
Police seized Lenore Kandel’s The Love Book in 1966. The trial that followed was San Francisco’s longest over a book, and its only one with a woman on trial.
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A Coney Island of the Mind: Ferlinghetti’s Million-Copy Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind has around a million copies in print, making it the best-selling book by any living American poet since 1950.
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The Maximus Poems: Charles Olson’s Gloucester Epic
Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems made Gloucester, Massachusetts the site of a difficult American epic built on projective verse and total civic obsession.
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The Jacob’s Ladder: Levertov’s Turn Toward the World
Denise Levertov’s The Jacob’s Ladder brought the Eichmann trial into her exacting lyric mode and enlarged Black Mountain poetics into public conscience.
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Naked Lunch: William Burroughs and the Book That Broke Form
William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) is a deliberately disordered, frequently revolting novel that won its obscenity trial and reshaped postwar fiction.
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The Word for World Is Forest: Le Guin’s Angriest Book
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World Is Forest (1972) is an anti-colonial novella she herself called a preachment, and still one of her fiercest books.
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Howl and Other Poems: Ginsberg’s Moloch and the 1957 Trial
Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems (1956) survived a San Francisco obscenity trial to become the founding document of the Beat Generation in printed form.
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Silent Spring: Rachel Carson and the Book That Made Ecology
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) turned pesticide chemistry into public argument, and the chemical industry attacked the woman rather than the evidence.
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Congratulations to Emperor Trump
Let me start with the basics. FUCK YOU! That’s the world we live in and you better get used to it. Emperor Trump is not going to step down. He…
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2025 – The Year of Burning – Burn after Reading.
The world we once knew, the world most of us grew up in and worked in, in which those of us who raised families or had careers, that world is…
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The Mountain Manifesto – A New Vision of Civilization
It needed to be written. It needed to be shared. Now it exists. Take it and do what you will with it The Mountain Manifesto Introduction: Everything is Not Fine…
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2024’s Cultural Shock – Reality Shift. When both feet leave the ground
I’m distinctly uncomfortable right now. Not physically and not emotionally – but mentally and possibly even spiritually. I’m unsettled. It’s November 14th here in Japan where I’ve just returned from…
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It’s not a New America – It’s the same it always was
The first time Donald Trump was elected was a painful shock to many of us. The reason was hard to figure out at first, but ultimately it came down to…
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The Children’s Crusade – A Broadway Show by ChatGPT
Title: The Children’s Crusade by ChatGPT with prompts by CD Damitio Act 1: Lost Childhood Scene 1: (Scene opens in Oakwood, a small town in a first-world country. We see…
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri – An Honest Review
I just finished reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri. In my life, I’ve read many thousands of books. This is the one I wish everyone would read. Seriously. It had…
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Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab – An Honest Review
As a geek, a sci-fi lover, a futurist, a technology lover, a person with a fascination for humans and what makes us tick, and an investor – I am constantly…
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Andrew Yang’s The War on Normal People – An Honest Review
Andrew Yang is running for President of the United States in 2020. He’s a smart, driven, and successful guy who you should vote for and who you should follow…
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Antichrist News September 13, 2020 – Covid and Politics
Week of 9/13/2020 In memorium of those who died on 9-11 and the millions of Iraqi, Syrian, Afgani, Libyan, and other children who died as a result of our…
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Antichrist2020 News Week Ending September 06, 2020
https://youtu.be/MhsX0dk4TGY Week ending 09/06/20 Global Covid Cases: 27,158,685 Global Covid Deaths: 885,129 New Deaths: 36,664 avg of 5238 per day down from last week’s 5450 per day US Covid Cases:…
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Antichrist 2020 News – Week Ending August 30, 2020
https://youtu.be/oaVz0bDlGQg Week ending 8/31/20 Global Covid Cases: 25,282,859 Global Covid Deaths: 848,465 810317 New Deaths: 38,148 an average of 5450 per day, down from last week’s 5640 per day average…
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News Update for Week Ending August 24, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfKcQoeax1s Week ending 8/24/20 Global Covid Cases: 23,475,619 Global Covid Deaths: 810,317 New Deaths: 39,481 an average of 5,640 per day, up slightly from last week’s 5590 per day average…
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