Category Archives: Critique

ANOTHER DICTATOR FALLS

Yet another savage dictator has been overthrown, this time in Syria! However, the authoritarian dictatorships of hierarchical mass societies in general will continue as they have since ancient times. The fundamental socio-economic contradiction between ruling classes, their elites, and their … Continue reading

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COMMENTS UPON A SOCIAL ECOLOGY CONFERENCE.

I recently had my attention drawn to a conference held during 2024 and organised by the ‘Transnational Institute of Social Ecology’ and was held in the city of Athens Greece. The conference theme was to build a Social Ecology based … Continue reading

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CONGRATULATIONS! THE SYSTEM HAS WON!

Metaphorically speaking, with only two specially groomed political horses in what amounted to a two horse race, how could the US systems syndicates that have bought and fed both horses, NOT win? What is true of the US political system … Continue reading

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NARCISSISM, SECTARIANISM & POLITICS

In previous articles on anthropocentrism I have detailed how much human-centric thinking distorts the reality of the wider ecological and biological reality of life on earth, but in addition also distorts the social reality of life within hierarchical mass societies. … Continue reading

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ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND CRISIS (2)

For successive generations of thinkers about ‘life on earth’, the dominant intellectual paradigm has been made up of human created, self-absorbed abstractions. The most dominant – all encompassing – abstraction contains, as an absolute certainty the domination of the human … Continue reading

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UK.WINTER FUEL PAYMENTS!

Amid the growing furore in the UK over the cancellation of the winter fuel allowances for pensioners, by the New Labour government, something is missing. No one seems have honed in on two very obvious questions regarding this withdrawal of … Continue reading

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ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND CRISIS (1).

In the context of the 21st century levels of climate and ecological understanding can Anthropocentric focussed concerns ever produce truly revolutionary solutions? The answer is of course not without a revolutionary overthrow of anthropocentric focussed thinking.itself. When the actual real … Continue reading

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UK RIOTS: THE NEGLECTED REALITY (Part 2)

In part 1 of this article pointing out the neglect of larger social issues it was argued that blaming the victims of the hierarchical mass society system has become a default position of all political tendencies within the neo-liberal phase … Continue reading

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UK RIOTS: THE NEGLECTED REALITY. (Part 1.)

The recent riots in various UK cities sparked by the tragic stabbings of little children in Southport have highlighted two social narratives, which are primarily based upon narrow ideological understandings rather than on factual ones. This symptom of narrative selection … Continue reading

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REMINDER: ENGELS WAS ONLY HUMAN.

In the context of the 21st century multi-dimensional crisis visited upon the planet and its many species of life-forms, it has become popular in some circles to suggest reaching back to the writings of long dead individuals for contemporary guidance. … Continue reading

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