When the Other Shoe Drops

I realise that my blog is in danger of becoming a permanent click through to Reality Sandwich, but I can’t help finding so much interesting stuff on there to link to.

This latest essay, written by Daniel Pinchbeck (Fun Fact: Pinchbeck’s Mother had a famous relationship with beat writer Jack Kerouac) looks at the looming economic crisis, and argues that a crisis may actually be needed to snap people out of their modernist, materialist trance and stoke the fires of political change. He looks at how subjects such as Psychedelics and Marxism have become taboo precisely at a time when they have assumed a new relevance for humanity.

He explores Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s ‘Multitude’, and has a lot of interesting things to say about Open Source software and the possibility of the emergence of a new global society.

If there is one voice around at the moment that I identify with, it’s Mr Pinchbeck’s.

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Posted on Nov 25, 05:05 pm by treb0r

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