After Bernie: Stuff shorter than Books

After Bernie – A reading list for despairing liberals eyeing radicalism out the corner of their eye: Stuff shorter than books

Fantism – Noun

Fantism N 1. An antiquated belief system or ideology that persists at the cost of more timely social movements and ideologies, with passionate supporters who discuss it at length but cannot agree upon what it actually is or means.

To Wound (a) History

The Islamic State horrifies us because they do violence to our symbols, not just innocent lives

A rebuke by Vlad Taneev from Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Blue Mars”.

"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, the why should people give up these rights when they enter the workplace?"

Again and again the Subsidation of History

Power respects power, not ethics.

The sexiness of Vivec and societal change.

I’ve noticed that as time goes on and the people of my generation take on more and more powerful roles in society (as business leaders, politicians, producers of media, even bureaucrats) it becomes easier and easier to openly say things …

A dialogue between Arkady Bogdanov and John Boone, from “Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson.

“The renewal is still a few years off, ” John said. A million Arkadys rolled their eyes. “It’s happening now. Not just in talk, but in what’s happening day-to-day down there. When we first arrived, and for twenty years after …