If you’re interested in simplifying your life, this is a great guide (it’s all based on the 2 golden principals of simple living: Identify what’s most important to you by making a list of 4 or 5 priority things, Eliminate everything else), here it is: Evaluate your commitments. Look at everything you’ve got going on in your life. Everything,… [Read more…]
March 23, 2012
One intrinsic problem with our competitive profit driven system: It is a “race to the bottom”. The question that must be asked by the Capitalist is, “how hard can I drive my workers?”, “How much of their life force can I squeeze out of them?”… For the maximum output of labor power. It’s not always that the… [Read more…]
February 25, 2012
Here are a couple of great posts about how to lighten up…. and some inspiration to take a vacation to Carnival. 1) Life has a sense of humour – the world has an astounding way of playing with us. If you take things too seriously this can be very stressful, if you play along and laugh about it… [Read more…]
February 14, 2012
Smile and do nothing, these two principals provoke simplicity at its best – contentment and serendipity or whatever other advanced words you want to use. You have a lot to be happy about so smile, you smile and you feel happy its a non violent vicious cycle. And while just sitting and do nothing is wonderful, if your a task orientated sort… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
Sometimes you might feel frustrated at the system to which you are enslaved….. Here are some relief clips from You Tube….. get angry….. better yet get out of debt and tell your boss where to shove it! It’s a system unopposed to those of us that won’t say no…. your time is your own now, face… [Read more…]
February 5, 2012
I am trying to educate myself in short sharp semi palatable potions on the financial shenanigans of Fatcat bankers. Consider the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which many analysts believe should be reinstated in full to prevent the sort of bullshit behavior that lead to the Global Financial Crisis we are all suffering through. Has the financial… [Read more…]
January 25, 2012
As the curtain closes on the first act of the Occupy protests the outcome has been, if nothing else, to open up a lively debate on the merits of the Capitalist system. “The question is not whether capitalism must be reformed. It is how.” Says Time magazine in their article How to Save Capitalism, which… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
PEAK OIL POPULATION GROWTH CLIMATE CHANGE SOLVABLE PROBLEM we really all know in our gut that there are some major problems coming the economy runs on oil nearly every single thing in our modern world has been organised around oil the entire built environment airports roads suburbs and trains have all been built with oil… [Read more…]
December 25, 2011
The whole concept of greed stems from the fact that there is not enough to go around if one person takes more than their share… Greed innately recognizes that there are limits to resources, that the pie is of a set size. And it says, “I need to take more than the other guy”. Yes, Greed in… [Read more…]
December 20, 2011
This really is a fantastic book, I highly recommend it. Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge so the guy knows what he is talking about and is from South East Asia – the part of the world that is without doubt the current and future PowerHouse of world economic growth. Love… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012
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