The Communal Cult
The Communal Cult
One of the principles we need to carry into the liberatory society is anti-cruelty. This matters precisely because liberation requires us to confront people, institutions, and movements that may be actively hostile to liberation. We are going to encounter reactionaries, authoritarians, fascists, racists, queerphobes, misogynists, and people who want to preserve systems of domination. We need to be capable of […]
The place I am writing from is not accidental. I exist after enchantment has been stripped from the world, after the Enlightenment taught us to mistrust participation and after postmodernism taught us to mistrust meaning itself. I can feel how deeply that loss shaped the way I think, the way I doubt, the way I hesitate every time I reach […]
The modern healthcare system often fails both patients and society when it treats mental health crises as short-term emergencies rather than as manifestations of chronic, systemic neglect. Simply stabilizing people for a week and releasing them back into the same hostile conditions guarantees both individual suffering and broader social breakdown, including increased crime. A serious, lifetime approach to mental health […]
The most telling expression of political apathy, nihilism, or cynicism is the belief that one can simply withdraw when conditions worsen—that, when things get hard, the correct response is to detach, disengage, or disappear. With due respect, let’s be clear: this is not a ship you can just abandon. This is the only world we have, and the idea that […]
Being Black and progressive means constantly confronting the reality that many white progressives have not actually deconstructed their relationship to whiteness—they’ve just learned the right language to mask it. The second it becomes more useful for them not to understand concepts like white fragility or tokenism, they revert. They stop listening. They protect their comfort and positioning. And they do […]
