Just wondering what you think

I read an essay recently which predicted that we will never find intelligent life beyond our planet, because any sufficiently evolved species will, in a variation on the fate of the Krell from Forbidden Planet, succeed in the technological satisfaction of all of its evolved drives and desires and will, in effect, crawl up its own brainstem and amuse itself to death (voluntarily enslave itself in the Matrix?).

I am not that much of a pessimist, but I can see that tendency in the way we use technologies that could easily be moving us toward a golden age of deep communication and collaboration, empathy and equality, an end to poverty and war, and the general movement toward a sustainable and diverse global culture of peace and plenty that honors pure science and the quest for transcendent knowledge and even wisdom.

Which side are you on?


2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints Released

17 years ago I began a project in response to the hype over the Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee. I wanted to construct a sort of global collection of inspiring ancestors, an alternative, secular communion of saints, so I created a wall calendar in which every day is a holiday/feast day in honor of a "saintly" ancestor. Iwrote up the Chronicle of Higher Jubilation as an introduction/invitation to contribute.

I presented the idea to the Autonomedia Publishing Collective in Brooklyn, and it became the Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints. The 17th annual edition has just been released [link]

Back around 1996 my friend David Brown created The daily Bleed [link] , which expanded greatly the information in the Saints calendar. It is also still going strong.

For Life, Liberty, Love and Levity.

I am the founder and curator of:

and a member of: