Art co-op project from tonite. #artsharer

Tryna be a art sharer. I appreciate so much when others do an the scrappier tha better!

Our archipelago of world crises is, in fact, an undersea mountain range

Whilst each ‘island’—environmental overshoot, war, surveillance, inequality—is different from the other, each is anchored in the Stone Age impulses of ‘This is mine’ & ‘I must prevail’.

Stone Age societies were organized to neutralize those impulses—which is how they survived.

We should do the same

https://books2read.com/thirddraft

#Democracy #Politics #DemocraticReform #NonFiction #SystemChange #PoliticalBooks #PoliticalScience

A happy birthday to the United States - the only nation since Athens to be founded by an entire roomful of geniuses

As Americans haven't done what the Founders suggested - to revise the Constitution to match changing times - it's been overtaken by a constellation of ruses, games & riggings by special interests

On its 249th birthday, the United States doesn't have fiscal, social & environmental problems—it has a democracy problem

https://books2read.com/thirddraft

#PoliticalReform #DemocraticReform

Our crises go back to plutocracy: to Organized Money capturing government policy

If we don’t fix that, we won’t fix much

Donors } industry pressure } political capture } Vietnam war

Donors } industry pressure } political capture } Iraq war

Donors } industry pressure } political capture } Gaza genocide

Plutocracy is bipartisan

The deep state attacked the populist, antiwar Left in the 1980s & the populist antiwar Right from 2016.

https://books2read.com/thirddraft

#Democracy #Politics