by sustainablesociety | Jun 6, 2020 | Health, Politics
What has the now global, dominant economic variants of capitalism to do with health outcomes? It has to do with the system of private property, alienation and the continuing struggle for existence, which capitalism seemed to have solved in the rich level 4 countries....
by sustainablesociety | Jun 2, 2020 | Politics
I can’t breathe For the weight of history bears down, And suffocates my hopes, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe, For the boot on my human face stamps down Crushing a vision of the future, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe For the white hooded sheets, the red flagged,...
by sustainablesociety | Apr 28, 2020 | Politics
Photo by visuals on Unsplash In 2020, some of the world’s largest economies are led by men who have adopted the speech patterns of the ‘Agitator’. These men use the emotional states of the population to further their own, and their allies, political...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 19, 2020 | Politics
Introduction “I came to realize that ideologies had a narrative structure – that they were stories, in a word – and that the emotional stability of individuals depended upon the integrity of their stories. I came to realize that stories had a religious substructure...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 21, 2019 | Politics, Random Thoughts
21st December 2019 Dear Dom, “Arbeit Macht Frei” as my old housemaster used to say after several ales in the back bar of ‘The Nanny and Spanker’ in Windsor. “Nothing works up a thirst more than a day’s heavy toil scratching away at the blackboard”. I’m all for the...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 14, 2019 | Politics
For the sake of understanding and unity, we need to focus on who the real #greedybastards are. The core of the 0.01% who are interested only in capital accumulation at any social, political and environmental cost. Tory voters: 1. Some Conservatives are...