The 5G network is the essential infrastructure for the realisation of the ‘smart planet’: a world of hyper-connected devices able to constrain all human dreams and needs along predetermined paths.
On the ethics of torching vaccination centres
A flick of the lighter, the whole thing catches fire, and the silhouettes disappear into the night.
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
The Estuary Stirrer This was the post I put up a week ago on Monday, July 19th, the day we supposedly got our freedom back: […]
Sheep, Shepherds, and a Goat
An allegory of the year 2020 and The New Normal that it has brought, a year in which symbolism, ritual, and superstition reign as instruments of oppression. I built this composition around the widely understood concepts conveyed by ancient, and still useful, metaphors of sheep, shepherds, goats, and wolves.
How can we Defend the Freedom of Assembly in 2021?
If you would have told me a year ago that the government would ban gatherings in private homes, and given police special powers to forcibly enter people’s homes without a warrant, I would have assumed that you were a paranoid conspiracy kook. Yet such is the reality in 2021.
Thou Shalt Not Question Public Health! Censorship in the Age of COVID-19
What is really implied by the term “Public Health”? Often, it seems that the term is used to suggest that individual wishes, needs and desires must be subordinated in the interests of a greater good. Who determines this greater good? Certainly not you or I!
In Defence of Religious Freedom
If you have a heart in your chest that beats, and lungs that breathe and blood that pulses through you, you should realize now that you’ve got do something to stand up to this insanity. The existence of a virus does not justify prohibiting basic human activities like coming together to sing, to pray, and to affirm and cultivate community bonds.
It’s normal to share
Unless you venture out and seek out examples of existing intentional communities, they might seem like a naive fantasy. Once you visit a functional community, it just seems natural that people should live together in such a way.
Activism as Spirituality
I remember many times where my passion for my activist work was very much akin to the passion that one carries into an exciting new romance, an energy that comes from a seemingly inexhaustible force coming from within, yet not coming from oneself, but from a source much greater than oneself.
The rebels will return
I have always been proud to be an anarchist. That is why it pains me to have had to say that there are today some fundamental problems at the very heart of the anarchist movement, problems which reach deep into the very way it thinks and feels.
Smash vitaphobia!
Here already we are in the realm of separation, a lost awareness of our shared belonging with all that lives outside our personal experience, a psychological retreat into the narrowest and shallowest levels of identity which are defined in terms of what, and who, they are not.