David Bowie (born David Jones, 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016)
Communalism: A Liberatory Alternative To The Present System
Communalism is the all encompassing term given to a comprehensive theory and practice that seeks to reconstruct society along ecological lines. It is based in the essential premise that all environmental problems are rooted in social problems. Along with global climate change, problems such as widespread pollution, deforestation, and species extinction are all anthropogenic in their source. Assessing these issues as a whole, we can see that our society is simplifying the environment on a global scale. In fact, it is undoing the achievements of evolution by creating a more simplified, inorganic world.
Communalism holds an objective set of social ethics that reflect the most developmental trends in evolution, including greater choice, dynamic stability, and diversity. Supported by these ecological trends, Communalism provides a foundation to act against injustice, domination, and hierarchy, which are neither “natural” nor inevitable features of society.
These ideas also work within a historical framework that recognizes that society has not always maintained the irrational form that we live in today. Communalism asserts that an ideal of freedom has expanded throughout history in opposition to the development of hierarchy and domination. To build upon these emancipatory efforts, a reconstructive vision is provided of an ecologically harmonious society that is free from all forms of hierarchy.
Up now on my eBay! Various indie and small press comics from 1986-1997! Glyph by Sarah Byam, Gordon Yamamoto & the King of the Geeks by Gene Yang, and Grendel by Matt Wagner & the Pander Brothers! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
Florence Ashley and Alexandre Baril look at a new term that has appeared in the transgender debate: “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”. There is no such thing. The term is made up by people who feel a need to invalidate transgender people, and not by scientists who know anything about the issue.
Gender-affirmative therapy’s motto is: “Follow the child.” If that means following them to social transition and, in due time, medical transition, then so be it. But only if that’s what they truly want.
Transgender children are in good hands. Therapists aren’t acting hastily in ignorance of scientific evidence. On the contrary, their approach is one that’s been built over decades of research and of following trans children.
The unfounded idea of rapid-onset gender dysphoria is a poor attempt at manufacturing a new moral panic — based on the same old idea of “contagion” — over children who couldn’t be in safer hands.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy says they are investigating potentially hazardous chemicals that have been discovered at a Detroit property owned by the man believed to be responsible for the green ooze that seeped onto I-696.
The property at 5900 Commonwealth near the New Center area is owned by Gary Sayers, who reported to federal prison last week. As part of his deal with prosecutors, Sayers was supposed to sell the property to pay for cleanup costs related to hazadous chemicals he had stored on his Madison Heights property.
The deal for the sale of the property has since fallen through.
Officials say they chemicals at the Commonwealth property were discovered Friday by Detroit Fire Department inspectors. They had not been discovered during an inspection in December, after the chemicals were found in Madison Heights.
…This joint’s about a mile N of my neighborhood!
BIMBISARA:
BIMBISARA (c. 545/544 BCE - c. 493/492 BCE) was a king of the Magadha Kingdom who is credited with establishing imperial dominance in the Indian subcontinent. Son of a minor king called Bhattiya, he belonged to the Haryanka Dynasty, which is said to be the second imperial dynasty of Magadha. However, it is only from Bimbisara’s reign that the historicity of different Indian kings can be verified with any certainty. Before the Haryanka Dynasty, the accounts of various Indian kings are mythical and cannot be verified with any archaeological evidence.
Bimbisara ruled at a time when Gautama Buddha (c. 563 BCE - c. 483 BCE) and Mahavira Vardhamana (c. 599 BCE - c. 527 BCE as per the Jaina tradition), the respective founders of Buddhism and Jainism, both started their teachings. Bimbisara has been given much importance in the early Buddhist and Jaina sources because he probably endorsed both these religions equally. He ruled from a place called Girivraja which was also known as Rajagriha and is identified with modern Rajgir in the state of Bihar today. It is said that the city of Rajagriha was built by Bimbisara himself. The city was covered on all sides by five hills creating a natural fortification, and later on Bimbisara’s son, Ajatashatru covered the gaps with stone walls.
