What I do
Where next for Jihadists?
The post-Enlightenment tendency to define religion as a system of belief restricted to personal or private life, rather as way of life, has seriously hampered our ability to understand the nature of Islam. It has artificially compartmentalized religion, doing violence to its nature; and has reinforced a static, reified conception of religious conceptions of religious traditions rather than revealed their inner dynamic nature. To that extent, a religion that does not seem to do so (a religion that mixes religion and politics) appears necessarily retrogressive, prone to religious extremism and fanaticism, and thus a potential threat [1]
It's easy being Green
I came across ‘Compost John’ whilst researching the cancellation of the Big Green Gathering, an award winning, truly sustainable, hugely enjoyable festival, which was due to take place at the end of July.
A Big Green Thorn in the Butt
Eco-revolutionary Festival versus the Police State?
Maybe but not as we know it!
Nozstock 2009
Nozstock 2009
I must be near Wales, the sky is shitting bricks, but we were finally on our way to our only festival of 2009.
After the terribly disappointing and forceful cancellation of the Big Green Gathering, we were at a loss of what to do with our weekend…where to go?
Region of Conflict
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Ron Suskind [1] encounters a senior Bush aide on the Bush campaign trail in 2002 [2]
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Ron Suskind [1] encounters a senior Bush aide on the Bush campaign trail in 2002 [2]