the deep state


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Ursula K. Le Guin

“We live in capitalism. It’s power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” —Ursula K. Le Guin



“On every act the balance of the whole depends.” (!gb)

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Caitlin Johnstone on where she is coming from – December 2019

Every year or so around my birthday I like to pause and write an essay outlining where I stand and what I’m doing here as clearly as possible. I do this partly because I think it’s important for crowd-funded media to be fully transparent about where they’re coming from so that people can decide if it’s something they want to support, and partly because the sheer volume of material I publish makes it possible for people to spin false narratives about my worldview in a way that’s difficult for others to fact-check without combing through hundreds of essays.

So here are 11 things my readers might want to know about me, with hyperlinks to my relevant writings on the subject.

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on living with a partner


Married or not, living with a partner presents as good a reason as any to practice looking deeply into (1) impermanence, (2) the lack of an unchanging self, and (3) the imagined reality of all concepts.

The practice brings into awareness past thoughts of any being as one of many. And this: the timeless present, with no being other than what is.

a foundational paradox in Zen: things are not as they are seen, nor are they otherwise

No one is as they are thought to be, and yet they are.

No one need do more than need be done to be and let be with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

equanimity: letting what is be just as it is; doing no more than need be done to be and let be

There are no beings, only being; no enlightened beings, only enlightened being.

Enlightened being is being well, is doing no more than need be done to be and let be.

May all be well.




notes and links
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