Giving Tuesday
They are counting on our exhaustion. On the contrary, we are ready for the next stage with a confident voice for change. Let us be that voice for you with your support, even as you work in your local community.
We Need to Do Better Than Another Enlightenment
We won’t throw off our new and different shackles by romanticizing the oppressive societies in which these masterpieces were born. We had better aim for something far more noble than the past.
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Rise and Fall of the Neuralink Society
Totalitarianism is ultimately a campaign against the Soul. It represents a law elevated to absurdity, a rule that has lost all touch with love. It forces life into servitude; it transforms man into a soulless machine.
To Bear Witness after Institutional Betrayal
The work of Gail Seiler and Teresa Cichewicz reminds us that even in the face of systemic failure, truth, conscience, and human dignity can still be defended. It feels fitting that the Betrayal Project’s emblem is a lighthouse.
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Universal Basic Income: Make Slavery Great Again
Government UBI will happen – it already does to some extent. It will not be cash handouts but digital currency. Your UBI will be yours as long as you use it for what the government allows.
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To Reclaim Our Nature
If “new things” are what have brought us to this crisis, then it is “old things” that become the weapons of the counter-revolution. Faith, family, community, and nature itself ground us in the reality of who we really are as humans.
The Triumph of DIY
Thanks to survival on the planet, I now know how to do more things around the house than I used to. Maybe add in YouTube for a few things, and there is a lot of learning available.
We Stopped Practicing Capitalism
We must ask ourselves honestly: Are we still mirroring nature? Or have we started mimicking a machine, a top-down system built on control, not connection? Because what we mirror shapes what we become.
Together, Apart
What do all these “Babel moments” have in common? If we recognize the moment while we are in it, can we do something to change our course, to make the outcome less disastrous than it might otherwise be?
Brownstone Institute’s Struggle for a Better World
So many institutions, including nonprofits, failed us for these terrible years. From under the rubble came Brownstone Institute to show the way out. We see the profound difference it makes for a single voice to rise up and empower so many other voices.
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The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling
There is no going back to a time before Covid-19 made our world crazy. You are right to be mistrustful of trusted officials and respected institutions. Zweig’s writing lays out all the evidence you need to feel this way.
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Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era
The lesson is simple. Trust people with their lives, their choices, their communities. Governments have formal responsibilities to their people, and micromanaging breathing or bread consumption are not among them. Let crises teach humility, not hubris.
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