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Hand Picked
Todd Hayen Were we handpicked to know the truth? Are we the chosen ones? I have resisted this idea...
Follow the Leader
Todd Hayen Yet another quirk of human behaviour is this propensity to follow leaders without much scrutiny as to...
Gullible Again
Sylvia Shawcross Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a...
WATCH: Fake Virtue with Alan Watts
JR Leach “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the...
A Gift of Words
Edward Curtin “The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make...
The Enlightenment & the Emancipation of Humanity
Charles Chevalier To what extent was Enlightenment one of human emancipation? As Hampson (1968) describes the period “an embarrassment...
Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin “Ditto,” said Tweedledum. “Ditto, ditto!” cried Tweedledee. Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass Sometimes a trifling contretemps can...
Self-Destructive Social Habits, Loneliness, and Propaganda
Edward Curtin “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!”...
The Last Temptation of Things
Edward Curtin “I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess...
The Invaders
Todd Hayen Is anyone old enough to remember the Quinn Martin television series The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes as...
AUDIO: Ed Curtin on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell
Author and sociology teacher (and regular OffG contributor) Edward Curtin joins Jesse Zurawell on the most recent episode of...
War of the Worlds
Todd Hayen The Queen is dead, long live the King. In another world I used to know, and can...
Waking Up in a Nightmare
Todd Hayen One thing this global awakening (at least an awakening for me and my fellow shrews) has made...
Why is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin “Begin then with a fracture, a cesura, a rent; opening a crack in this fallen world, a...
The Fear Not to Be
Edward Curtin This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the theologian Paul Tillich’s famous book, The Courage to Be....
Slow Boil
Todd Hayen Everyone knows by now the analogy often tossed about these days describing a frog in a pot...
Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated...
Harmless Untruths
Julien Charles In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, the deadpan realist from the Midwest–the 20th century’s Mark Twain–delivers...
When Force Meets Power: The Inevitable Collapse of the New World Order
Ryan Matters When the famous quantum theorist, David Bohm, read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s “The First and Last Freedom”, he was...
The Alibi of Tyrants
Julien Charles “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides...
