Blogs about: Morris Berman

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Sensual-Animist wrote 3 months ago: Agricultural/Industrial societies are afraid of Wilderness Hunter/Gatherer and Plant Tending societi … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Animism, Civilization, hunter gatherer, Indigenous peoples, neolithic revolution, pre-agriculture, primitive lifestyle, Primitve skills

Finding God Using Berman's List -- An Examination2 comments

Sufyan bin Uzayr wrote 4 months ago: By: Alton C. Thompson “The crucial issue . . .is not what we ‘should’ do, but what is likely to happ … more →

Tags: Commentary, Faith & Theology, gallery, downloadables, Alton, Christianity, Philosophy, Religion, Thompson

The Evolution of the Other & the Hidden Nature of Democracy (Perceptual Warfare 8)4 comments

jasunhorusly wrote 4 months ago: (cont from last post) This strangely contradictory philosophy is used to justify everything from inv … more →

Tags: Autism, Psy-ops, group identity, democracy, homogenization, Mimesis, individualism, charles manson

Huddling: Are Americans Going Gun Crazy? (Perceptual Warfare 7) 9 comments

jasunhorusly 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 →

Tags: americanism, group identity, Gun Control, perception management, Sandy Hook, School Shootings

An Empire of Children5 comments

jasunhorusly wrote 4 months ago: Some insightful observations by Morris Berman, from A Question of Values “24% of American population … more →

Tags: negative identity, technology & violence, U.S. Foreign Policy

America the Horror Show3 comments

trueoutsider 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 →

Tags: Art Pimps, donald kuspit, paul outlaw

Declinist Reading List, Part One

futurodellanazione wrote 5 months ago: As the Toileting of America becomes more apparent, there has arisen a genre of non-fiction that migh … more →

Tags: declinism, william bennet, Reading List, Declinist, Robert Bork, Gommorrah

New Essay at Truthout - "America: What Happened?"

davidmasciotra wrote 6 months ago: One of the reasons many formerly rational and moral liberals are so emotionally and intellectually i … more →

Tags: David Masciotra, Politics, American History

Bureaucratic Mummies3 comments

playsonideas wrote 6 months ago: I’m currently reading 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann. If … more →

Tags: Thinking about story …, Consciousness Change, Julian Jaynes, Inka mummies, Charles C. Mann, Mayan Interface

Pulling Up Stakes: Secession? Seriously18 comments

feralcatoffreedom wrote 7 months ago: Secession is often derided by liberals as some kind of cock-a-mammy right wing nut idea from Texas. … more →

Tags: Politics, Social commentary, anarchism, capitalism, Catalonia, confederation, David Graeber, Montaña, secession

The Waning of the Modern Ages: Presented by Morris Berman at The Vermont Independence Party | Vermont Commons

kubla wrote 8 months ago: 3. What, then, is that alternative worldview, that “new civilizational paradigm”? In Why America Fai … more →

Tags: Great Transition, Great Rebalancing, second vermont republic, vermont, Vermont Independence Party, Braudel

Celebrating the Future Independence of Vermont, at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier: Toward a Politics of Jubilee1 comment

kubla wrote 8 months ago: I spent Friday, 14 September in and around the Vermont Statehouse. Sometime back in the mists of his … more →

Tags: Great Transition, subsidiarity, Great Localization, Great Redistribution, Great Reskilling, Great Revaluing, Resilience, Politics, Photo (2)

Downsize the State: Nothing Succeeds Like Secession 1 comment

kubla wrote 8 months ago: The good people at the Second Vermont Republic are at it again, helping to organize The Third Statew … more →

Tags: Great Localization, Great Rebalancing, Great Revaluing, Great Transition, Politics, Charlie Keil, second vermont republic, self-organizing, vermont

Animals and Humans

Sensual-Animist 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 →

Tags: sensuality, Animism, Sensual, hunter gatherer, primitive lifestyle, pre-agriculture, Indigenous peoples, Psychology

Epitaph for an Evolutionary Deadend: More Oil and Coal than Brains1 comment

xraymike79 wrote 9 months ago: Morris Berman, As I said, the reset will be global. Climate Change is apparently too abstract for th … more →

Tags: climate change, Environmental Degradation, Pollution, Anthony Leiserowitz, Dark Ages America, Dr Paul Craig Roberts, extinction of man, George Mobus, Guy McPherson

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

Editor wrote 9 months ago:   Stealing the American Dream Rule by Sociopaths by MORRIS BERMAN At the outset let me say that … more →

Tags: Economics, Protest, Heist, occupy, 1-2, Plutocracy, reagan, Reaganomics, trickle-down

Slouching Towards Nuremberg?

protestationdotorg wrote 10 months ago: From: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/25/slouching-towards-nuremberg/ by Morris Berman Strange t … more →

Tags: Articles

The Planet is Creative and So Must We Be

The Orris wrote 10 months ago: In the early days of June 2012, twenty-two scientists warned that we are approaching a planetary tip … more →

Tags: Essay, ISSUE THREE, Al Gore, Brazil, Derrick Jensen, Duane Locke, ecological, Ecology, Environment

Newark Mayor Cory Booker's "Meet the Press" Gaffe: More Politics as Usual3 comments

moustacheclub wrote 11 months ago: Cory Booker’s remarkable ascent will continue in spite of his recent gaffe, but his remark abo … more →

Tags: moustacheclubofamerica, Barack Obama, Ethics and Values, Tea Party, Mitt Romney, america in decline, american ignorance, attack advertisements, BAIN CAPITAL


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