Charlie,I fear that the capitalist social organizing paradigm offers few, if any solutions for climate change and global warming. Capitalism-particularly corporate neocapitalism–purports to solve the problem with consumption. We trust that somehow we can buy our way out of this situation. But the greenest solution is the least profitable and, perhaps, offers no…
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Billie, Nothing will fuck up your writing more than academic writing. I read some stories I wrote long ago, and while they were imitative and narrow, the writing in them far outclasses anything I ever wrote for college. Ever. I first went into history because the writing people at UMKC…
Leave a CommentDavid,My parents moaned about how “kids these days” weren’t like them. People of my generation gripe the same way. Conservatives promote the status quo and call that rebellion. In economic life we mistake innovation (Steve Jobs) with revolution (radical feminism). We confuse graphic art and design for independent creative expression.…
Leave a CommentDear Billie, I write this in the spirit in which it is written. Billie, I’m getting killed over here. I have no drive, no energy, no satisfaction, or feeling of being settled. Complaining makes one unseemly to friends and family, I know. But in an atmosphere of constant competition, a…
Leave a CommentBillie,Again, I bitch about the absolutely inadequate language with have for sex and sex organs. Take “blowjob,” for instance. When I hear blow, I think of bailing out of the plane and blowing into the red hose to inflate my PFD. “Suck,” too. that slurpy, bubbly sound at at the…
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