Why No One In the Free World is Really All That Free
Freedom of the capitalist variety is a little overrated Take away someone’s freedom and you suck the air out of their lungs — you blind their eyes, cut out their tongues, block their…
How the Profit Motive Sucked the Soul Out of Music
Nothing is valued unless it can make money Every decade of the twentieth century was defined by a distinctive sound. Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry in the 1950s. The Beatles and Jimi…
Why Every Job Lost to Automation Brings Us One Step Closer to a Universal Basic Income
Automation has always been something to fear, but it should be something to celebrate During the nineteenth century, the Luddites, a radical group of textile workers, did all they could to…
Why Capitalism’s Cage of Necessity is Leading to Social Collapse
The capitalist cage of necessity; it's nowhere, and yet it's everywhere. You can't hear, feel, or smell it, yet your life depends on it, and your behaviour is a product of…
How the Collapse of the Left Has Killed Politics Democracy provides the illusion of choice
It died a quiet death. The politics of our imagination, where politicians fought for ideas they believed in, where they would stand on the pulpit and fight for those they represented,…
7 Reasons Sustainability Could Trigger a Global Revolution New ideas have the power to change the world
Ideas have the power to destroy, the power to enlighten, the power to change the entire world. At present, the ideas and beliefs that shape society are destroying the natural world…