https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/technology/britain-online-safety-law.html As of January 1 there will be no more internet advertising in Great Britain. It has been determined that advertising induces consumerism. An “Online Safety Bill” with such provisions was passed earlier this month. It also stipulates that financial services industry companies will be given a year’s grace period to shut down their websites. The British government understood that the transition away from an internet presence would take some time for those companies to effectuate. They will have until January 1, 2025 to cease and desist. It has been determined that the financial services industry is harmful to the public.

This article reflects the reality of the situation: https://mishtalk.com/economics/a-huge-backlash-against-climate-change-and-immigration-madness-has-started/ “ . . . it’s madness because neither the infrastructure nor supply chains are in place for a radical push.” Year-by-year more and more people will recognize the need for a radical transition of our lifeways. They will, correctly, clamor for…

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4215263-biden-faces-pressure-to-counter-trump-on-auto-strike/ Another progressive who has voiced regular support for unions is expected to stand alongside angry workers. Unfortunately for Biden, it’s one of his rivals. Cornel West, who’s running to defeat both Biden and Trump as a Green Party candidate, is heading to Detroit to walk the picket line, The…

The School of Life has its critics. A chief concern is that they can be simplistic in addressing emotional/psychological issues. But a virtue is that they have a realistic perspective about the human condition . . . about our proclivities, our feelings. For example, about marriage. We’re all neurotic to some extent (and in idiosyncratic ways), so in one aspect marriage is like being tethered to a neurotic in a three-legged race. The School of Life points out how that can be hard to deal with. Going in to it with a realistic perspective can help.

Various people, groups, ideologies. Many have a vague sense that something’s been lost. A variety of analyses, interpretations, issues, solutions: Traditionalism, nationalism, communitarianism. Luddism of different sorts. Some will appear reactionary, some progressive, some right-wing, some left-wing, some “neither left nor right” or “off the spectrum.” (It was Stalinism, of course, that made a portion of the Left think more deeply about progressivism and more critically about modernity.)

There was a debate early on. Jefferson led a faction having a vision to go in a direction far different from that of England: Remain pastoral and decentralized. Hamilton led a faction having Great Power aspirations. …

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/18/quick-thoughts-on-the-uaw-strike/ “ . . . there is nothing golden about a single-earner family. It is great that there are increased opportunities for women so that most are in the labor force.” Here’s a different way of looking at it: The idea was NOT to have both partners in a household…

Fredy Perlman and David Watson were among those who started to go the heart of things fifty years ago. And they wrote with heart … grounded in biocentrism. Samuel Alexander is more pedestrian, but he’s more accessible and he currently shows us the way forward. Kirk Sale says the very…

The telegraph, then telephone. Telephone party lines in neighborhoods, telephones in every house, telephones in every room, radios in every house, radios in every room, televisions in every house, televisions in every room, computers in every university, computers in every business, computers in every house, computers in every room, computers in every hand. Generations of change are inevitable and we wonder what’s next. Some say computers in every body.