Journal

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Activism

Constructing the Post-Capitalist Narrative

Something happened while walking through New York City today. I began to realize every person around me — every single one — spends more money maintaining their lifestyle each month than some families will see in a year, or a lifetime, or a generation. Every month American’s spend thousands of dollars maintaining their lifestyles. This

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Activism

Direct Action: Occupy Hunger Games

…Was a massive success. Way more than I had hoped for. Having come up with the idea on the fly, I didn’t really have many expectations. But was still surprised by the end results. A number of things aligned perfectly. Note: There are some minor spoilers — mostly overall narrative points and concepts. I try

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Thoughts

The Hunger Games and the Excess of Capitalism

NOTE: No major spoilers below, but tread carefully if you want to read the book or see the movie without anything revealed. Mostly information about the overall narrative (ie setting). Just finished the first book of ‘The Hunger Games’ and am half-way through the second. With the movie coming out in a few days I

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