From Inside the Widening Gyre

Title adapted from the first line in the poem, "The Second Coming," by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. It refers to a diagram, received in a vision, composed of two conic helixes ("gyres"), one inside the other. Yeats claimed this image captured the contrary motions inherent in world history (dialectics?). He believed in 1921 that the world was on the threshold of an apocalyptic moment, as history reached the end of the outer gyre and began moving along the inner gyre...

09 November 2011

Occupying the Centers of Capitalism: update

On the morality of Occupy Wall Street protesters (and the immorality of capitalism), this article really nails it! WARNING: heavy stuff...

Finding Freedom in Handcuffs by Chris Hedges (posted Nov. 8th on truthdig.com)