I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

All writers are propagandists.