Red vs. Blue Is a Lie: Both Parties Are Selling You Orwell’s Nightmare
‘I stumbled on a meme the other day, thank you Rick Merlin, that listed “10 lessons from the book Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and though I continuously write about it, I was still stopped me in my tracks. What struck me was how little it read like a warning from a dystopian past and how much it […]
Prop 50 ~ Swallow the Salty Hypocrisy
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’ve flip flopped on California’s Proposition 50. Not because I suddenly found religion in partisan politics or fell under the orange glow of Trump’s tan. No, it’s because Prop 50 shines a bright, unfiltered light on something most people don’t like to acknowledge. It’s not about fairness. It’s […]
Red, You and Blue: The Scam that is Killing America
I speak as a Dussellian, drawing from the legacy of Enrique Dussel, the Argentine Mexican philosopher whose work in the philosophy of liberation challenged the privileged, the powerful, and the complacent. Dussel argued that those who live on the margins, who are excluded by systems of power, demand not only to be seen, but to […]