Tag Archives: Timothy Leary

consciousness III, IV, V, …

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Dave

…Nothing will ever be as nice again, or as good, as it was when one was seventeen. The paradoxes and contradictions of the post-industrial “occupy” culture, the anti-one-percenters, is a kind of resignation and despair that so many pleasures are … Continue reading →

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technological un-enjoyment

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Dave

What will our new economic order look like in ten years? At this point, it appears there will be more un-voluntary leisure time, and some steeply progressive income taxes that a shrinking workforce will be burdened with to support the … Continue reading →

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leave it to cleaver: the guy next door

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: eldridge cleaver was one heck of a guy. a serial rapist who repudiated rape while in prison (soledad, san quentin and folsom prisons – all notoriously nasty places). he wrote a series of important essays that were … Continue reading →

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the chic-sters

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dave

Is there an alternative to free market capitalism? The issues that are feeding dissent have not faded. In fact, the global tendency for “austerity” measures will only reinforce them, since austerity as put into practice is a tax on the … Continue reading →

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facing the book on ambition

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dave

This new buzzword that is supposed to encapsulate the idealization of desire among aspiring women is known as the “ambition gap”, which as a precondition, makes the qualitative value of ambition as axiomatic motherhood statement as representing something remarkable, magnificent … Continue reading →

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merry pranksters: Joke on who?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dave

The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading →

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countdown: subterranean homesick text

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Art

going underground to a novel format: the magazine as paperback… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ): These two little paperback books are actually NOT paperback books at all! they look like paperbacks, are printed like paperbacks, published by paperback publishers and even … Continue reading →

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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dave

A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading →

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praises of folly: flights of reason

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dave

Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading →

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participation: connecting to a loud hailer

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dave

Social media has been around a long time. How long? Probably as long as people have been gossiping, searching true love and willing to share. Certainly the Italians singing to each other as they hung out the wash was-the origins … Continue reading →