Psychiatry is Thought Policing. The Thought Police, especially in public schools, are trying to outlaw emotions and vast territories of free thought. There is nothing positive about psychiatry.

In order to advance their agenda of control and mental slavery, the Thought Police first make school life i… Read full post »

Check out the video I created from an interview with tar sands activist Helen Yost: it includes a detailed, educated point-by-point breakdown of everything wrong with tar sands oil (and, by extention, Keystone XL) which lasts seven minutes:

(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvorGniWxW4)&… Read full post »

Politicians and corporations should make life meaningful. How can they do that? Buying power. That makes life meaningful.

But we buy too much crap anyway. Why, you may ask, should buying more useless crap make life more meaningful? Answer: It doesn't. Buying power doesn't mean buying more crap, it me… Read full post »

I was just reading an interesting account of "structuralist" writers. I think this ties into my critique of psychiatry. I believe that the main fault of psychiatry is behaviorism and materialism--the philosophy that nothing can be said about consciousness beyond the material, or beyond the observable… Read full post »

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about when certain businesses should be socialized. For example, should AmTrak have been socialized? What about the Postal Service—should that be privatized? There is a lot of debate about these things, especially since Republicans keep saying they wan… Read full post »

Today, today, today
Wading down the water-filled streets
Acrid salty silt between my toes
Breathe plastic
Breathe acid
Breathe carbon
Angry hope wells inside the walls round my heart,
And in two days time,
Nothing will ever be the same
Therefore, watch

The immediacy of change
The imminency,
Strings of spider sil… Read full post »

The material value of a thing is not reducible to the labor required in its production. It's reducible to the amount of work it does for society--it's value as an organizing concept which enables the welfare of others. This is the value. The exchange value is not the same as the… Read full post »

I've been busy writing up the business plan for my website (www.netcultpolitics.com), and have come to a surprising conclusion:

I am not a Liberal.

during my research, I had to do answer some fundamental questions about the American political marketplace. And one of the questions I had to ask was, firs… Read full post »

Bang! The explosion racked the small town. Bang, Bang! Kaboom! Little soldiers scurried everywhere, trying to make sense of the utter chaos. Guns fired. Rockets exploded. The jeeps maneuvered into more advantageous positions. And people died. Oh yes, people died. So many dead bodies. Dead bodies line… Read full post »

What a great film. Anyway, I've moderately changed my stance on socialism vs. regulated capitalism. If we see a systemic overhaul of the American system to a democratic socialist system that has been proven to work, and if this transition isn't a bloody and destructive transition, I would be willing… Read full post »

January 29th two school officials held a luncheon prayer at a booster lunch. They were charged for violating a court order against "promoting, advancing, aiding, facilitating, endorsing, or causing religious prayers or devotionals during school sponsored events" (Hannigan, "jail time"). On the 17th o… Read full post »

How high the sun:
That dot that flashes like the sea,
The single glitterer glittering,
Our goal-directed, objective behavior.
The machines that trade our stocks
Have yet to match this
The candy-lava.
The sparkle-nova.
How high the sun.

If I'm not mistaken, democratic socialism means the public ownership of capital. Public ownership of capital to me means that the capital, real or otherwise, is not owned by a small group of people, which means that the benefits of owning capital—profits, or interest—goes directly back in… Read full post »

Back in January 2008, the Dali Lama stated that he was a "Marxist monk" because "Marxism is more ethical, unlike capitalism" [Express India]. Whether the Dali Lama is actually a student of Marxism is his business, but I have strong reservations with the latter statement: "Marxism is more ethical, unl… Read full post »

For even the best of arguments, you can expect people to poke holes in it. And various people I have talked to have poked some serious holes in my proposition for compulsory leases. One person even went so far as to say (somewhat non-seriously) that I would be killed for it,… Read full post »

It is a week after Independence Day; all the fireworks are smoke and ashes, and I found myself contemplating The Declaration of Independence. Have you ever noticed that of the three bedrock virtues it endorses—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—one is a nebulous abstraction which… Read full post »

Medications are a great tool for living, and I think, regarding medications, it is important to do two things: a) not reject them entirely, b) not settle into them. By this I mean, you should not insist on ignoring what happens to your brain because of the medications, and you should… Read full post »

Manna Naomi, the author, was not here yet. Only her brother Zack, his dog Gytrash, and the other guests at Dylan's house. The space between her and myself was growing ever smaller. "No," I could hear her say, "space is zero."

"Manna said she might be late," I said to… Read full post »

We all know the exploits of our leaders in Washington. You can't read half a paragraph in the papers but find something amiss. For heaven's sake, we don't even need to step beyond our private life or community sphere to find problems: everywhere are angry egos and their petty manifestos. No… Read full post »

Everything a person with schizophrenia does (assuming they are a logical person) is absolutely logical. It is consistent with reason, and perfectly sane. A person with schizophrenia who understands the mandates of logic and reason, is skilled in ethics, acute in understanding, perfectly level-headed,… Read full post »

You puzzle me so, female snake
But snakes were never made of diamonds
Wrought in the Earth, depths of flame,
The better to shine in the sun

You puzzle me so, blue-eyed devil
But demons never shone so bright
To overpower the devil himself
Sister, who is your king?

Who masters you, are you your master?
Or is it… Read full post »

Most of us are aware of the separation of political powers in the United States of America. I think this is very good, especially for a powerful country like the United States. This idea of separation of powers was revolutionary compared to the monarchic European systems of the time. But there… Read full post »