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3 hours ago

The End of Capitalism
by Theodore Richards

"Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a consensus among the political and media mainstream that “There Is No Alternative” to Capitalism, particularly the form of capitalism one finds in the context of globalization. “The Free Market”, it is said, will solve all our problems, and become the organizing principle the world over. The conflation of Capitalism and freedom itself has muted any debate that would suggest otherwise. At the same time, recent economic crises coupled with a growing clarity that unlimited growth is destroying the biosphere may suggest that the Capitalist era is coming to an end.

To understand this, we have to find a little bit of clarity about what Capitalism is and how it has come to dominate the planet. At its core, Capitalism is less about a free market than it is driven by systems of debt and corporatism for growth and expansion. Its roots lie in colonialism, an era in which indebted corporations and governments used the power of the gun to extract resources and exploit peoples (“markets”) around the world. Capitalism breeds an insatiable need to expand and grow – consequently it requires a cosmology of consumption: a culture that understands the human being as primarily deriving meaning through what it can buy.

But where does this need for expansion lead when there are no more nations to conquer? Where does this lead on a spherical planet with finite resources? It would appear that we have reached the end of Capitalism..."

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11 hours ago

A Progressive Christian Near Death Experience. An interview with Josh Grisetti about The God in His Head.
by Eric Alexander

"This is definitely not my typical interview. Today I am talking with author Josh Grisetti about his very unorthodox near death experience. He uniquely terms his event as an hallucination with the God in his head, which occurred after a nearly lethal drug interaction while undergoing a dental procedure.

In our time together I gleaned that he definitely has the heart and mind of a skeptic, but he could not seem to escape the fact that he had a very real other-worldly type of experience with God. And while there are many NDE’s on record out there, this was the first I had heard that had a specific progressive Christian tone to it. In other words, he walked away from it still believing in a personal type of God, as well as a real divine account of Jesus, while at the same time coming away from his experience with doctrinal views that many progressive Christian’s would be theologically aligned with.

In our conversation I asked Josh about parts of his book that particularly caught my attention, and tried to understand how the God in his head harmonized with much of what progressive Christians tend to believe these days. So even if you aren’t predisposed to find such an account believable, I think you will enjoy the conversation and find it thought provoking. There is something to interest everyone, and there is probably also something to perplex everyone 🙂 Here is our conversation..."

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