collective action

Superheroes

We like superheroes because we’re weak. Let’s use other myths to become strong.

By / 10 Comments / 10 September 2018

Summary: Superhero films dominate theater box offices. They also show our greatest weakness. We are a powerful citizenry broken into powerless individuals who see collective action as futile, or even corrupting. We have a second set of myths that show the path to a better future for America. Let’s take this first step to recovering our …

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Who will find the key to power: America or the Middle East’s jihadists?

By / 6 Comments / 14 June 2015

Summary: We dream of superempowered individuals, seeing ourselves as Ayn Rand’s Übermensch or comic book superheroes while we ignore the methods that made us powerful. Meanwhile, Islamic fundamentalists seek to recover formulas from their past that made them world leaders. We have the machinery yet not the will; they have the reverse. Which is more …

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Steps to make the tech revolution boost America, not just the 1%.

By / 5 Comments / 22 May 2016

Summary: We’re repeating the mistakes of the first 2 industrial revolutions as the wonders of increased productivity go to the 1%, while families in the middle class race like rats to preserve their way of life. Solutions require the same kind of collective political action we’ve successful accomplished before. We’ll get there. We choose how …

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Pirate Bay points the way to a new political reform movement

By / 17 Comments / 9 February 2015

Summary:  Today’s inspirational message comes to you courtesy of Pirate Bay, the many other similar websites, and the open-source software movement. They point the way to new political reform movements that might revitalize the Second Republic (built on the Constitution), or pave the way to a Third. Through associating, the coming together of people for …

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Occupy & Tea Party are alike, both saving America through cosplay

By / 18 Comments / 11 January 2019

Summary: Collective action is democracy in action, unrestrained by the machinery of the formal political parties. Does the surge in political action of the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Movement represent a new morning for America, appropriate at the start of a new millennium. Or are these peasants’ protests, venting steam while the 1% …

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