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To Rebel Against Necessity and More
Edward Curtin Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world, which operates on the basis of...
The Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity
Edward Curtin “Mendacity is a system we live in.” Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof A profusion of...
The End of Reality?
Edward Curtin In 1888, the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols:...
Humankind’s Last Battle with Nature
Todd Hayen Most articles that I have seen regarding the monstrosity of the Covid-19 crises focuses on objective, practical,...
The Messenger
Words are inadequate to describe certain experiences that happen outside the law of cause and effect. Although they are...
Could we have some silence please?
At my Quaker Meeting, occasionally someone will say, “Could we have some silence please?” especially during a business meeting,...
The Online Double-bind
Edward Curtin The trap was set at least twenty-five years ago and the mice jumped at the smell of...
Death: A Simple Idea with a Powerful Punch
Edward Curtin Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality...
Lockdown Therapy for Capitalism
Hiroyuki Hamada One might think that artists wouldn’t mind being isolated and having more time in studios on account...
Rotating on Boredom’s Spit
Edward Curtin And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream we’ve both seen” John Prine, Hello...
Phantoms of “The Operation”
Edward Curtin “Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” Shakespeare, King Lear Many thousands of New Yorkers...
Hovering in Cyberspace
Edward Curtin We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world...
Songs of Longing for New Year’s Day
Edward Curtin Like many people, when the New Year rolls around, I think of turning over a new leaf....
A Child’s Christmas Gift of Freedom
Edward Curtin Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand...
A Do Nothing Anti-Labor Day: A Modest Proposal
Edward Curtin In a country with a Mount Rushmore that celebrates the ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it might...
The Canaries That Sang “Things Suck”
Edward Curtin Don’t get me wrong. I am not foul-mouthed or in any way vulgar, having been trained in...
When Warriors Become Saints
Edward Curtin As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house in the...
Beyond Liberalism: The emergence of new identity politics
Shahzada Rahim Liberalism emerged as the most enduring philosophy of the enlightenment era but since the dawn of the...
Happenings in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
Edward Curtin There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Buffalo Springfield The Sunday newspaper had been...
Speeding into the Void of Cyberspace as Designed
Speed and panic go hand-in-hand in today’s fabricated world of engineered emergencies and digital alerts. “We have no time”...
