But what does “fascism” mean? Given how increasingly common the term is, we should figure it out.
Author Archives: John Halstead
Debate with a Technoptimist
After viewing Michael Moore’s latest film, “Planet of the Humans”, I got into some intense discussions with progressive friends who really disliked the movie as well as my promoting it online. One progressive friend, Mark Green, wrote a response, and there followed a back-and-forth series of posts between us, which I think was very illuminating.
Black Lives Matter … to the Planet
Whether it’s climate change or White supremacy, it’s not about changing one thing. It’s about changing everything, together.
Are Solar Panels Really Sustainable?
In order to be truly sustainable, solar panels must offset the harms done in their creation and disposal, as well as enough energy to replace themselves at the end of their lifetime. Not only are solar panels not sustainable, but they likely never will be.
News from the Other End of the World: July 2020
A (more or less) monthly newsletter for AnotherEndoftheWorld.org where I introduce new friends I have met in the Deep Adaptation community, give an update on current and future projects and essay ideas, and share what I’m currently reading and watching.
“What it means to be alive in a time like this” (by Patrick Farnsworth)
If you want to engage in political action and social change, what kind of action is worthy of our love, dedication, and rage in a time like this?
Anarchism for Civilians
Unitarians taught me about small-scale democracy. Bonobos taught me about the naturalness of taking care of others. Midwives taught me about the availability of alternatives to the state and capitalist order. And pirates, those violent criminals from our bedtime stories, taught me about the violence of civilization itself.
What Pirates Taught Me About Anarchism (Anarchism for Civilians series)
Civilized societies are not less violent than non-civilized societies–-though they may appear to be the more privileged citizens. One of the defining characteristics of civilization is the depersonalization of violence.
What Midwives Taught Me About Anarchism (Anarchism for Civilians series)
Though they’re often used synonymously, civilization is not the same thing as culture. Many of the things that are attributed to civilization, such as art and healing, existed before civilization and outside of states. And many of the lauded “improvements” brought by civilization were not really improvements, or else they were improvements which came at a terrible cost.
What Bonobos Taught Me About Anarchism (Anarchism for Civilians series)
According to many biologists, there is as much cooperation in nature as there was competition. The story we have been taught about our innate selfishness is only part of the truth. As such, it is capitalist propaganda, and something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
