Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) I suspect most historians, including myself, could not say much about the anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s work and ideas beyond the two-word phrase “thick desc… more →
Ether Wave Propagandawrote 3 months ago: Agricultural/Industrial societies are afraid of Wilderness Hunter/Gatherer and Plant Tending societi … more →
wrote 4 months ago: By: Alton C. Thompson “The crucial issue . . .is not what we ‘should’ do, but what is likely to happ … more →
wrote 4 months ago: (cont from last post) This strangely contradictory philosophy is used to justify everything from inv … more →
wrote 4 months ago: “24% of the American population say it’s OK to use violence in the pursuit of one’s goals.” —Morris … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Some insightful observations by Morris Berman, from A Question of Values “24% of American population … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Sorry for having no pictures. I know that very few people who look at them are able to read a cohere … more →
wrote 5 months ago: As the Toileting of America becomes more apparent, there has arisen a genre of non-fiction that migh … more →
wrote 6 months ago: One of the reasons many formerly rational and moral liberals are so emotionally and intellectually i … more →
wrote 6 months ago: I’m currently reading 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann. If … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Secession is often derided by liberals as some kind of cock-a-mammy right wing nut idea from Texas. … more →
wrote 8 months ago: 3. What, then, is that alternative worldview, that “new civilizational paradigm”? In Why America Fai … more →
wrote 8 months ago: I spent Friday, 14 September in and around the Vermont Statehouse. Sometime back in the mists of his … more →
wrote 8 months ago: The good people at the Second Vermont Republic are at it again, helping to organize The Third Statew … more →
wrote 9 months ago: In the second chapter of Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West, Mo … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Morris Berman, As I said, the reset will be global. Climate Change is apparently too abstract for th … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Stealing the American Dream Rule by Sociopaths by MORRIS BERMAN At the outset let me say that … more →
wrote 10 months ago: From: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/25/slouching-towards-nuremberg/ by Morris Berman Strange t … more →
wrote 10 months ago: In the early days of June 2012, twenty-two scientists warned that we are approaching a planetary tip … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Cory Booker’s remarkable ascent will continue in spite of his recent gaffe, but his remark abo … more →