Israel: Land of Holocaust Deniers
ORIGINS: The International Committee of the Red Cross released the following statement on April 14, 1989: Geneva (ICRC)—On 13 April 1989, six Arab inhabitants of the village of Nahalin, in the Israeli-occupied territories, were killed and about thirty others were wounded in the course of an operation by the Israeli armed forces. The International Committee […]
Theft is Legal
WE’RE BEING RIPPED OFF, AND IT’S LEGAL Theft Is Legal: Theft is the action or crime of stealing, taking what doesn’t belong to you. Many kinds of theft are codified in law. Legal theft, it can be argued, is the primary driver of industrial economies worldwide, and the paradox of our time. Legal theft is […]
The Rise of The Eco-Army
The promise of progress: Progress is a 19th-century idea. Social theorists long ago captured our imagination with the belief that advances in technology, science, and social organization would save us from the jaws of scarcity and light our way forward. Progress is so powerful as a mental construct that it frames our national identity as […]
Overcoming Your Death Wish
Our dilemma: extinction or life The key questions of our era revolve around the survival of our species: Why would humans consciously choose to annihilate themselves, ending an evolutionary adventure that began over 5 million years ago? Why are our normal defenses against mass extinction—death—– failing to rally our survival instincts commensurate with the challenges? […]
America’s Welfare King: Elon Musk
Time for tax revolt: This piece is a call for tax revolt against the wealthy that are starving America’s Treasury and making life more difficult for the majority of Americans. Tax revolts have shaped American history since the founding of our country. The Boston Tea Party is perhaps the most memorable. Americans dressed up as […]
The Rise of Stupidism—Insurrection and The Power of Fantasy
America first: America is first in many social and political trends. Insurrection triggered by fantasy is one of them. Imagine scaling the walls of the Capital and breaking in based on the fantasy that President Trump won re-election, and it was stolen from him. Evidence to the contrary, right-wing activists sought justice for his claims. […]
Covid-19: The Life You Save May Not Be Your Own
Dedicated to Dr. Li and Chinese Journalists: This blog is dedicated to Dr. Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist, who died from Covid-19 at age 34 in Wuhan China, February 7, 2020. Dr. Li was in the forefront of warning fellow medics about the disease and treating suffers December 2019. Chinese police told him to “stop making […]
An Era of Courage
What’s Possible? I created this blog site “Revolt to Live” one year ago. I did so because I came to the realization that every key social and economic problem that we face requires new, incisive questions, frameworks and experiments to solve. Qualitative change, in other words, is required to survive and flourish as individuals and […]
Death of Donald Trump
The Tombstone: Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, died on November 3, 2020. He lost both the popular and electoral college vote. A map of the United States tells it all; over 70 million people located primarily in the middle of the country, the so-called red states, voted for him. They were hoping against […]
Trump’s Evil Twin
Antiquated Nationalism: Our actions have consequences. Decisions we make and behaviors we execute create situations, social trends and institutions. The rise of the nation-state, for instance, depended on the fall of the church and feudalism. Kings faced the formation of the English Commonwealth in 1649 and the French Revolution in 1789. Nation-states were at one […]