Under the fog and fear of eternal fascism — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ January 5, 2023 We are caught in a contradictory state of doom and opportunity. That is an entanglement of disaster and promise. This is the stuff that produces personal and cultural stress at dangerous levels. We tend to alternate between dread at the insanity…

How we survive and what we keep is now our responsibility — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ December 17, 2022 It’s hard to know what to say without calling on all forms of dubious deities to evoke the appropriate atmosphere of desperation. But, by all the gods and monsters, I wish this was simpler. I’ve written extensively about the complexity of…

Faking injury is an old dog trick — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~Decembder 7, 2022 We are so entangled in the web of other people's lies that we can't weave our own. The problem of lies, misinformation, gaslighting, and all the words coined for the endless assaults on truth in the 21st century seem endless. This may…

What do we have to lose? — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ December 4, 2022 Well, there is a lot to lose but only things we will lose anyway. But of course, that is not what people want to hear, but it must be said and repeated. The need for hope becomes desperate as we face…

We've allowed stupidity to spread for too long — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ November 26, 2022 Something is happening that is beyond the boundaries of standard polarization. This has been emerging for several years but does not fit our existing, carefully fabricated sociopolitical paradigm. We have no words for what is happening, and our dominant national and…

Our indigenous knowledge suggests where we went wrong — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ November 19, 2022 The scary thing about climate disaster is that it is on a planetary time scale. The fundamental problem is that it is a hyperobject beyond our grasp. Hyperobjects are too big, complex, and interrelated in too many ways to easily understand. …

It depends on which story you want to believe — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ November 11, 2022 Democracy has been saved in America and the Russian army has retreated from Kherson. Of these only the second appears to be more than a very incremental improvement. The Ukraine army has officially entered Kherson very carefully. This is a remote…