There is a drive in live organisms towards complexity, as life develops, living beings become more sophisticated and interdependent; the inanimate world, on the other hand, tends towards simplification, complex molecules break down into simpler ones, and electrons flow to lower energy states; without this collaborative ‘dance,’ the intricate functions of life are impossible.
‘Life’ [...]
Can I live up to the gift of freedom?
I often think of freedom as a burden, the fact that I have limitless choices to be anyone I want to be or not. It scares the hell out of me. The burden to choose responsibly and wisely for myself on a personal, [...]
Some might argue that we don’t have any choice in this upside down dangerous world and that we can’t affect what will happen. But even if we can’t immediately alter the course of human events on the world stage, we can certainly create change in our own lives and in all of the lives that [...]
The word freedom carries a lot of strange and uneasy feelings. I want to invent a new word to express this feeling, this way of being, this way of thinking and interacting that is untouchable by the sickness of the human race.
I think to myself, how did we get here? How did we [...]
Freedom is a vision that should be achieved in personal, social and international context.
On all these levels freedom means more than the mere absence of physical freedom. An all encompassing understanding of freedom always contains human rights, social justice and maintaining the natural environment.
Such a freedom can be obtained by practicing compassion, honesty and nonviolence.
Let [...]
One of the primary fictions that governs our lives is that we are in any meaningful sense free. Our way of life is predicated on freedom, and is freer than any other way of life that has ever existed, we tell ourselves endlessly, drearily, compulsively, as sleep-deprived we look out the window at the concrete [...]
From: THRALL
……when obscenely further back, malefic
democracy broken open,
optionally steps through you
disappearing in the dips
and the bourgeois body
pursued to the limits of faded money
wills not
to jump its shark
impressed into the radiation
a single torrential fusion
draw aside panoptic
collapse of time and space
by none
exacted with more rigor
we, who go through the day
as yet unmingled in ceaseless flux
all the dead [...]
When I was a young man and needed to believe that my service to my country meant something, I held closely words like “land of the free and home of the brave.” But after serving a year of front line combat in the jungles of Vietnam, I realized just how hollow those words were.
I [...]
