In the toy chest of any ’70s child, one would most likely find “GI Joe,” “The Weeble People” and of course, “Mr. Potato Head.” These popular Hasbro toys found their forms through the hands of many artistic and technical engineers. Jack McCabe of West Kingston was one of these creators. McCabe’s young-looking, [...]

Checkmate
“Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy.  Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics.  Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science.  And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept [...]

The Truth is Out There
“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny.”[1]
Entertaining the idea of a “power elite” is enough to be labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” words expertly chosen to marginalize independent thought. However, the story does not end here; labels do not hinder an honest inquiry for truth. True power does not lie [...]

Peanut Butter Jelly Time
“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.” –Niels Bohr
In essence, we are really just talking about spreading jelly over toast. Do we want clumps or even distribution? But, please, let’s only consider what’s within the boundaries of my particular slice of bread. This [...]

The Human Hive
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”[1]
So what is communism? It is a system which delivers security in exchange for freedom by taking property out of the hands of individuals and into the “collective” or, [...]

Wealth for the Fittest
“[Capitalism] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade.”[1]
In light of the fact that we live in a society which calls itself, “capitalist,” let’s explore this idea a bit further.  At its core, capitalism [...]

Man v. Nature

“Thus with the advent of agriculture an élite became better off, but most people became worse off. Instead of swallowing the progressivist party line that we chose agriculture because it was good for us, we must ask how we got trapped by it despite its pitfalls.”[1]
Pinpointing the origin of social systems is simple, [...]

Contractual Freedoms
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of [...]

A Brave New Religion
“Academic religion is the killing jar of spirit.”[1]
The materialistic worldview, however safe, is woefully incomplete. It does not account for our deep yearning for connection, for love, friendship and community. In the intellectualizing of existence, we are compartmentalized, over-specialized and disassociated from our complete and whole beings. We are [...]

The Ghost in the Machine
“The rhythms of nature underlie all of human interaction: religious traditions, economic systems, cultural and political organization. When these human forms betray the natural psychic pulse, people and societies get sick, nature is exploited, and entire species are threatened.”[1]
The very nature of being human means we are necessarily individuals, but [...]