The Post-Partisan Emporium

Futures That Work John Michael Greer Among the most curious features of the current predicament of industrial society is that so much of it was set out in great detail so many decades ago. Just at the moment I’m not thinking of the extensive literature on resource depletion that started appearing in the 1950s, which set out in painstaking detail the mess we’re in right now. I’m thinking of those writers who explored the decline and fall of past civilizations, in the vain hope that ours might manage to avoid making all the usual mistakes.  In particular, I’m thinking of Arnold Toynbee. Arnold Toynbee, contemplating the idiocy of failing elites.  Toynbee’s all but forgotten these days, but three quarters of a century ago his was a name to conjure with. His gargantuan 12-volume work  A Study of History  set out to trace the histories of all known civilizations and, from that data set, determine the factors that drove the rise and fall of human societies. One- and two-volume abridgements l

The Moral Wisdom of Lawmakers is comparable to the cleanliness of sewers Chris Bray Old enough for sex, too young to see pictures of guns. This must be the Golden State. California, you may  remember , is very proud of all the things that 12 year-olds can do without their parents knowing about it or approving any of it: They can get birth control and abortions, they can get medical treatment for “intimate partner violence,” they can get medication for their STDs, and on and on, in a really  empowering  list of tween privileges. Recently, the Senate passed a bill that has (for now) stalled in the Assembly,  SB 866 , which would allow children to get mRNA injections without parental knowledge or consent. Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener California law already allows 12-17 year olds to access various forms of healthcare without parental consent, eg: HPV & hep B vaccines, abortion care, birth control, mental healthcare, domestic violence-related care. SB 866 builds on this existing

California's 10 Psychotic Vaccine Bills & Why They Matter to Everyone, Everywhere A quick look at how these bills represent the global agenda Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek You can listen to me reading this essay  here I have a friend who as a young woman dreamed of being a trucker. She grew up in an era when proper women didn’t do things like that and in every way, she was proper, but this was her yearning to break free of the yoke of conventionality. I reminded her recently of her dream. I could just see her driving along with The People’s Convoy—she would be an amazing addition to the team! The convoy is now in California and as a “Californian girl,” born and raised in Los Angeles, except for the years when my family was traveling abroad, I take all of this personally. God Bless the truckers, or The People’s Convoy as they are called. Where would we be without the salt of the earth—our truckers, plumbers, bakers, electricians, the folk with common sense who aren’t fooled or made st