Revolution is the political part of E.A.R.T.H. In this introduction, I try to outline where we are at politically, what progress has been made, what is yet to come and how we might help get there.
A fairly middle of the road environmental party of which I am a member, the Australian Greens, is often labelled extreme by conservative opponents. This is a discussion of what it means to be labelled extreme.
A friend was publishing The Equal Standard magazine as part of her Phd, and asked for submissions on the topic of Extremism. I did two versions and this is the one which got published.
I wanted to write an explanation of why I thought anarchism was the only philosophy capable of taking us into the future. It ended up being more of an extended mind dump, so forgive me for that, but I hope you find something interesting in it. Caveat lector!
A long stream of consciousness I wrote in my twenties at the point I started to become who I am today. I've changed since then, and I've written better things since then, but the direction of my ethics as expressed in this article hasn't changed too much.
An email was sent to an environment collective I was part of asking how it is that the conservatives so easily won the 2004 Australian federal election when they were so clearly morally bankrupt? This is my vitriolic answer.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
Gandhi made his appearance in my life when I was around 15 and saw the 1982 David Attenborough movie starring Ben Kingsley in the titular role. There are a handful of movies that I like because they contain deep philosophical truths, Groundhog's Day on finding the authentic self, Don Juan De Marco on our frame of reference, the Matrix on perception of reality, Fight Club on consumerism, but Gandhi and non-violence was perhaps the single movie that most altered my worldview. While I thought the world was unfair, I didn't yet have a coherent understanding of why or what to...