• banger commented on the diary post Cooperative Efforts: This Is How We Save Ourselves by Phoenix Woman.

    2012-04-22 05:51:29View | Delete

    For various reasons during the FDR days there was some consensus that we were a single country made up of coherent communities. This is no longer the case thus there can be no possibility of strong national efforts to deal with collective issues other than reptilian-brain needs like the American fascination with war. Nothing major [...]

  • banger commented on the diary post Cooperative Efforts: This Is How We Save Ourselves by Phoenix Woman.

    2012-04-22 05:41:05View | Delete

    There is a purpose to the growth of individualism perverse as it is and really inhuman. I don’t mean that it enables the rich to more easily dominate society by discouraging people to aggregate either. We are in a historical situation that is stunningly different from any other situation human beings have ever felt. In [...]