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Universal basic needs should be met for all before anyone can achieve and chase profit. One person’s liberty should not outweigh someone else’s life.
Australian politics is a circus, think of these articles as the well deserved rotten produce being hurled at the mediocre (if we’re being generous) performance.
I have been looking for a while to where I fit in on the political landscape. There is so much dogma and rigidity around the camps as they currently exist. Marxist Socialists or Pluralist Liberalism, Anarcho-Humanist or Enlightenment Rationalist. None of these really fit, like a shirt whose sleeves are too long or the mid…
I have been feeling a fair bit of #praxisParalysis over the last two years. Honestly I can’t believe it’s been that long since my last upload. Man how times change in such a short span. The more I learn, the harder it seems to see the path forward that lifts humanity out of it’s current…
My friends and I often joke about packing up and leaving the city to buck the trend by pooling our resources for commune living. Our joke has even gone so far as to have people picking out their desired roles & responsibilities within our made up pseudo-society. This musing isn’t unique to us; there is…
What started as pure aesthetic has become social underground with books and manifestos building an ideological movement that is picking up speed and inspiring many across generations. But what spurred this movement? How does it provide that much needed hope as an antidote to the trials and tribulations of the current day?
Assumptions Before I began my quest to learn about one of (if not the) most prevalent economic systems in the world, I had some very specific ideas about what capitalism was. Firstly, I thought that capitalism’s main aim was to redistribute wealth amongst the population. Secondly, I thought it was the only market based economic…
Pork-barrelling has become a new addition to the everyday Australian vernacular. This term, to break it right down, basically means throwing money at a constituency to ensure their votes go one way or the other. The issue is this is exactly not what governments are suppose to do, the budget should be spread relatively evenly…