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Hard to Believe, But We’re Getting Saner: What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide and the Necessary Mess of Transformation

Posted on August 5, 2013 by sillymickel

The Cycle of All Events, the Evolution of Parenting, and Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One Chapter Nine: Regressions in the Service of Society — Messy Healing There Is a Cycle … Continue reading →

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“Yes, We Can” Proved We Could: In Spite of Dumbness Being a Commodity for the 1% and the Media Become the New Opiate of the Masses, Still, Something Wonderful Can Happen

Posted on November 6, 2012 by sillymickel

To Our Amazement, Charlie Brown Connected, Lucy Apologized, a Man Who Said “Yes We Can,” Would: Anything Is Possible … Means Everything Is Possible Culture War, Class War, Chapter 23: Something Wonderful Can Happen There Are Good Reasons Why Our … Continue reading →

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Remember … “Yes, We Can” Proved We Could: Wonderful Can Happen, Part Three — Amazingly, Charlie Brown Connects

Posted on November 6, 2012 by sillymickel

Shaken Out of Our Mental Maze, We Would Be A-Mazed: Lucy Apologizes, Sisyphus Rests, A Man Who Said “Yes We Can,” Would Why Know This? Amazingly, Charlie Brown Connects So, these things we know. They are sobering rationalizations and ones … Continue reading →

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The Impotence of Reason, The Vanity of Will, Progress Requires Regress, and Healing Is Nothing if Not Messy: Railing Against the Darkness

Posted on September 14, 2012 by sillymickel

Rebirthing Rituals, Part Two: Railing Against the Darkness, The Vanity of Will, The Impotence of Reason, and Social Progress Requires Regression The Vanity of Will, The Impotence of “Reason” What we absolutely don’t have, yet arrogantly think we do, is … Continue reading →

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Republicans Would Rather We Think Them Dumb … Than Evil: Aw, Shucks … The Ignorance Excuse

Posted on September 13, 2012 by sillymickel

Republicans Pay Homage to the God of Common Non-Sense: Convenient-for-the-Rich Social Niceties Is Not Profound Government Policy Our Leaders Prefer We Think Them Dumb Than Culpable I’ve noticed that we live in a time where those in power, making these … Continue reading →