This is my second response to Graham Wright, blogger of Man Against The State. Graham has engaged with me in a dialogue comparing the understandings of the Austrian School of Economics, Libertarianism and the Voluntarist Position with the position of The Zeitgeist Movement – what is termed a Resource Based Economy. Graham has responded twice […]
Ben McLeish of the Zeitgeist Movement UK drops by London Real to talk about the One Planet Project, how we have built a system that relies on scarcity, why corruption is endemic to that system, the 3 behaviours you change right now to promote the Zeitgeist Movement, and why you’re working in a job you […]
This is the 2nd post in an ongoing exchange between myself and Graham Wright of Man Against The State. Graham’s first post takes the form of a line-by-line critique of the short presentation “Firing Back” from January 2012. The original video in question is here. All posts in this series are tagged “Graham Wright and […]
(This post’s concluding words were re-edited on June 23rd, to correct the perceived tone and add an outbound link.) If you happen to order fish and chips at any point tomorrow in the UK, amongst the greasy second-hand newspaper used to line the take-away box, you might catch sight of a bent corner of an […]
The great global conversation humanity has to have in order to advance itself, share its knowledge, its experience and its ideas, is a ridiculously recent invention. In fact, if we are to consider the worldwide access to information, whether in the form of the internet, phone or libraries, we can firmly say that the conversation […]
The very first time I heard They Might be Giants (TMBG) was in the late 80s, when, as a kid, round 7 or 8 years old, I liked to cycle through the radio stations on my AM/FM radio, enjoying the random peals of voices and musical collage the rotation created. I guess this was my […]
So this afternoon, Truth-Out published what I happened to be thinking at exactly the moment the article hit my inbox; the means of the Occupy Movement, from supplying at every #Occupy location (and in their article’s context, Liberty Park, New York) free medical resources, free food and drink, and even in many cases, free Wi-Fi […]
I remember first visiting London’s St Paul’s Cathedral at the tender, semi-Santa Claus eligible age of 17. Most striking was the exit; giant doors which held back the darkness of the inside, swinging open to a blanched square surrounded by the shining alabaster-coloured machines of London’s Square Mile. Often peppered with tourists, or suits, but […]
The ZMUK extends a warm welcome to Ben Mcleish. Happy Blogging Ben.