Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
Category: Meditate and reflect
Riders of the Capitalist Apocalypse
According to Slavoj Žižek, the four riders are: Ecological Crises Consequences of the biogenetic revolution Imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual property; forthcoming struggles over raw materials, food and water) Explosive growth of social divisions and exclusions Also in the introduction to… Continue Reading “Riders of the Capitalist Apocalypse”
Waterfront location
You would think this is an old broken-down beachhouse until you realize the concrete path winding down to this beachfront is unbroken and almost-new. The coast weathers things like that. Only three years old and part of a development that never got off the… Continue Reading “Waterfront location”
A photo, a walk.
This is one of the places I regularly go to in East Van – take the dog for a walk down above the train tracks in the marginal space between Vancouver and Burnaby. It’s not exactly pristine down there on the waterfront above CN… Continue Reading “A photo, a walk.”
Please raise my taxes.
Dear Mayor and Council, I am asking for you to raise my property taxes. Seriously. As a Vancouver homeowner, I am asking that Mayor and Council raise my property taxes rather than facing cuts to Vancouver’s libraries, parks and recreation, and community services in… Continue Reading “Please raise my taxes.”
So too, we move on.
I just booked travel for next week – Vancouver to Kelowna, Kelowna to Penticton, Penticton to Nanaimo (by way of Vancouver), then Nanaimo to Vancouver. Four days. Four meetings. But if I make it through they will be my last ones so I don’t… Continue Reading “So too, we move on.”
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