There’s a tendency for it to be somewhat anarchic.
Prior to Freud it had been either unmentionable or scandalous or a source of class disparagement. With Freud, Ellis, Kinsey, et. al., a more mature attitude and consideration set in.
From the standpoint of nature: It’s built-in. It serves the procreational…
The building features individual residential units of about 1,000 sq. ft., complete with kitchen and dining room, along with a variety of shared spaces such as two balconies, gathering/work area, an art studio, bicycle storage and a spare bedroom where overnight guests can stay.
The plan is to also…
This spring a Green Party candidate obtained enough petition signatures to get on the ballot. More than enough.
But after the overturning of Roe the Democrats did something unprecedented: They obtained the list of petition signers and started to contact them to encourage them to notify the Secretary of State that their name should be removed from the petition. They said: “It must be a two choices race or the Republican might win.”
https://www.matthewhohforsenate.org/hoh-slams-democratic-partys-voter-intimidation-campaign/
Just back off from your over-consumption, over-development, over-exploitation, over-domestication, hyper-expansion.
Rest today. Take it easy. Try not to try too hard. Start tomorrow.
His writings are mostly in German, so I haven’t been able to find out if he’s building on the work of Fredy Perlman, David Watson, John Zerzan, Derrick Jensen, Samuel Alexander, Daniel Quinn, etc. or if he arrived at essentially the same perspective independently. The latter would not surprise me…
Most of life should be local.
Modernity starts with the opening up of the whole world (and associated expansionist lust) about five hundred years ago. Hyper-modernity starts with the industrial revolution about two hundred years ago.
Up until the modern period production and consumption was essentially local for ninety-nine percent…
The era is characterized by over-individuation and hyper-individualism. The result is atomization, anomie, and loneliness.
We are social beings and thrive best living in human-scale collectives, i.e., households, neighborhoods, communities, villages.
The modern collective called the city is too large; it’s beyond human-scale.
A co-editor of Green Horizon Magazine, Steve has been a movement activist for many years (was also an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review”).
