Hierarchy, Text, Violence, Religion
On Myths, Religion and Innocence
Everybody knows that human societies have long been organized hierarchically, and many people in fact believe that complex society requires this. Largely unk...
Essays
Bureaucracy, Text, Violence, Terrorism
Remarks on Violence, War and Terrorizing
As Walter Wink has pointed out, violence is a tool that allows us to realize certain outcomes that seem desirable to us: to change either the person we infli...
Bureaucracy, Education, Careerism, Text
On Personal Responsibility and Careerism
For decades, we've been hearing how everyone should 'take responsibility for their actions,' and that we are each responsible for our 'success' (or lack ther...
Bureaucracy, Liberalism, Inequality, Education, Text, Essentialism, Identity politics, State violence, Repression
Linking (Neo)Liberalism, Identity Politics and Bureaucracy
Both David Harvey and Noam Chomsky have done a lot to analyze and explain the rise of neoliberalism. Both have pointed out that it should primarily be unders...
Video
Some thoughts on "How to Turn Litter into Money": Linking Promises, Money and Violence
Reintegrating the dismal science There are a number of ways to explain what money is, and what it allows us to do. Sadly, the "origin story" that we were all...