Wellbeing on the other side of stormy seas

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Who Murdered Yannick Verdyck? On the difference between a conspiracy and a tyranny without a tyrant.

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Cheerleaders for Genocide - by Heather Brunskell-Evans

"The Israeli Ambassador to the UN recently claimed: “We are the most moral country in the world, and we are the guardians of civilisation.” In contrast, a UN member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Territories, Chris Sidoti, says: “The death of this institution is actually a moderate demand […] The Israeli army is one of the most CRIMINAL armies in the world.”

Israel’s narrative of itself as an exemplary but beleaguered liberal democracy is now slipping out of hegemonic control. Kneecap and Bob Vylan have become influential contributors to this dismantling. The cat is out of the bag and will not be returned. The general public is increasingly aware of Israel’s crimes. Even the timid among us are refusing the injunction of Friends of Israel that human empathy for the Palestinians is Jew-hatred. Finally, the young are being politicised. They demand: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”"

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Mithras the Syrian - by Hiram Crespo - The Twentiers

"In the seven centuries during which the ancient Epicurean Gardens were active, the Epicureans seem to have had both an oral and written tradition of lovingly and cheerfully narrating the pastimes and activities of Epicurean friends (past and present). In the days of Philodemus of Gadara, these stories were told by the Scholarch of his day (Zeno of Sidon) in a manner that stirred the emotions among the disciples.

In this essay I will discuss one of the friends of Metrodorus, Mithras the Syrian, and the ethical and educational value derived from storytelling and from the repetition and celebration of the story of love, loyalty, and friendship between them. "

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The Imaginal Realm, the Otherworld, and Theurgy

"an imaginal realm is not simply “an invented world,” a work of fiction; and both Blake and Tolkien believed the worlds of their works to be as real as any other. On the other hand, every world, including that we take to be “reality,” is a product of invention. The question is: Who is doing the inventing? It is not a welcome realization, is it? As Rilke so wisely observes, “already the knowing animals are aware / that we are not really at home in / our interpreted world.”[1] My claim: the imaginal world is just as substantial as any world, including those we think we inhabit. Another name for the imaginal realm, or at least an aspect of it, is the Otherworld.

The great French scholar and philosopher of religion Henri Corbin explains the characteristics of the imaginal realm:

“Between the universe that can be apprehended by pure intellectual perception and the universe perceptible to the senses, there is an intermediate world, the world of idea-images, of archetypal figures, or subtle substances, of ‘immaterial’ matter. This world is as real and objective, as consistent and subsistent as the intelligible and sensibly worlds; it is an intermediate universe ‘where the spiritual takes body and the body becomes spiritual,’ a world consisting of real matter and real extension, though by comparison to sensible, corruptible matter these are subtle and immaterial. The organ of the universe is the active imagination; it is the place of theophanic visions, the scene on which visionary events and symbolic histories appear in their true reality.”"

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Independent Media Alliance Joins Odysee’s Decentralized Portal

"Independent Media Alliance Launches Decentralized Journalism Portal on Odysee to Bypass Big Tech Censorship
Journalists sidelined by tech giants carve out a sovereign corner of the internet to publish on their own terms."

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short - self-actualization in the commons

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Workshop Teaching

"McGinnis, Michael, ed. 1999. Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press."

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Vincent Ostrom's Publications: Subject Bibliographies: Library: Ostrom Workshop: Indiana University

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What the Left Doesn’t Get About Morena | Compact

""Progressive hostility towards Morena is less surprising than it might seem."
“Sheinbaum lauded the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID.”
López Obrador described progressives beholden to the causes of polite society as “progres buena ondita”—vibes progressives. “One of the things [neoliberals] created were the so-called new rights: feminism, environmentalism, animal rights … All of these causes are very noble, but their purpose was so that inequality in the economy would be left out of the center of the debate,” he mused in 2021. While less incendiary than her predecessor, Sheinbaum has similarly adhered to AMLO’s example of putting workers first—and often angered opposition progressives in the process.

During the pandemic, López Obrador blasted Covid fundamentalism on the grounds that draconian lockdowns and vaccine mandates were authoritarian and disproportionately impacted the poor and working class. As mayor of Mexico City, Sheinbaum distributed over 200,000 medical kits containing ivermectin to residents that tested positive for Covid-19. In the eyes of technocratic experts, both leaders committed unspeakable crimes against “Science,” never mind the fact that the kits contained harmless doses of the FDA-approved medication and that the country’s pandemic-related deaths were identical to those of Latin American peers."

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