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Tag: Capitalism

How Science Ignores The Living World — An Interview With Vine Deloria
Essays

How Science Ignores The Living World — An Interview With Vine Deloria

by Jason HollandJanuary 7, 2026

This interview of Vine Deloria by author Derrick Jensen, was published in July of 2000, by The Sun Magazine. Deloria passed away on November 13, …

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The Commodification of Art – Redux
Essays

The Commodification of Art – Redux

by Jason HollandFebruary 27, 2025February 27, 2025

A heavily reworked essay from years ago on the erosion of art under the process of commodification

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A Quick Diatribe on Monetary Systems
Notes and Anecdotes

A Quick Diatribe on Monetary Systems

by Jason HollandApril 21, 2024

Money creates an enormous overhead for everything we do. So much extra labor has to go into a monetary system that no rational person would …

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Hippie Jesus Isn’t Down with Capitalism
Essays

Hippie Jesus Isn’t Down with Capitalism

by Jason HollandApril 14, 2024April 14, 2024

Radical quotes from the Bible on money and greed.

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Ursula Le Guin’s Quote on Capitalism, Writing and Authenticity
Notes and Anecdotes

Ursula Le Guin’s Quote on Capitalism, Writing and Authenticity

by Jason HollandApril 6, 2024April 6, 2024

I first found this quote from Ursula Le Guin when doing research for an essay I published a few years back called The Commodification of …

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Capitalism Explained in 19 Seconds
Notes and Anecdotes / Satire / Video

Capitalism Explained in 19 Seconds

by Jason HollandApril 1, 2024April 1, 2024

Capitalism may seem complex but really it’s much easier to understand than you think.

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Why Peace Is Impossible in Western Society Part III
Essays

Why Peace Is Impossible in Western Society Part III

by Jason HollandJanuary 23, 2024January 23, 2024

In this series of essays I put forward a simple premise – We live under a system of dominance that is not conducive to peace and social harmony.

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I’m Better Than You and Deserve More
Satire

I’m Better Than You and Deserve More

by Jason HollandAugust 18, 2023

Did you hear? I’m better than you and naturally more deserving of rewards. Yep, it’s not easy being a better-than however I manage to cope …

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Enough Science, Gimme Some Truth Part II
Essays / Science

Enough Science, Gimme Some Truth Part II

by Jason HollandMarch 18, 2023May 24, 2024

By Jason Holland and William Hawes “…the uncontrolled growth of technology destroys the vital sources of our humanity. It creates a culture without a moral …

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Krishnamurti: Work Is an Intolerable Imprisonment
Video

Krishnamurti: Work Is an Intolerable Imprisonment

by Jason HollandSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 2021

Wage slavery is slavery. It is unacceptable the people are forced into a monetary system and all the land is held for ransom paid via your slavery.

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Housing Profiteers
Essays

Housing Profiteers

by Jason HollandJune 23, 2021June 23, 2021

I reside in Orlando, a city laden with socio-economic facades which echo the theme park set pieces for which the city is best known – Shiny on the …

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The Commodification of Art – Part II
Essays

The Commodification of Art – Part II

by Jason HollandJune 20, 2021June 20, 2021

Part I of The Commodification of Art can be found here. “I could always live in my art but never in my life” – a …

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The Indispensable Radical Left
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The Indispensable Radical Left

by Jason HollandFebruary 18, 2019April 7, 2024

“White collar conservative flashin’ down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna …

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Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine
Essays

Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine

by Jason HollandNovember 28, 2018September 10, 2021

The depressing nature of living in the limitations of a capitalist empire.

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A Small Reminder to Everyone Trapped in Capitalism – The Money Ain’t Fuckin’ Real.
Essays

A Small Reminder to Everyone Trapped in Capitalism – The Money Ain’t Fuckin’ Real.

by Jason HollandAugust 28, 2018September 10, 2021

It may sound ridiculously simple, but that’s exactly what it is, and that is to know all your money problems and worries around money can …

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A People’s Definition of Capitalism
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A People’s Definition of Capitalism

by Jason HollandAugust 24, 2018September 10, 2021

A brief definition of capitalism from an awakened working class perspective.

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Is Sharing Ethical?
Essays

Is Sharing Ethical?

by Jason HollandJuly 30, 2018September 16, 2024

Hear me out. I realize the idea of sharing may seem like a vulgarity to the sophisticated American mind and could rile a few people …

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The Decree of the Capitalist God
Essays

The Decree of the Capitalist God

by Jason HollandApril 10, 2018September 10, 2021

Bow before thy lord of bling.

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Essays Worth Repeating: Minorities versus Majorities
Art

Essays Worth Repeating: Minorities versus Majorities

by Jason HollandNovember 18, 2017November 18, 2017

Emma Goldman’s writing is as valid now as it was a hundred years ago. A testament to the fact we are still ensconced within the same socioeconomic issues.

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Mark of the Beast $$$
Essays

Mark of the Beast $$$

by Jason HollandSeptember 20, 2017September 10, 2021

Money and the power it imbues atrophies the living daemon in all who are subjected to capitalist games. It is a manipulator of perception, a …

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Curated Quotes

 


“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
― Lao Tzu


“They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machine and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.”

-George Carlin


Spanish proverb: honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in the same purse)


 

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground


 

“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use.” – Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda


Hunter S Thompson on the 60s & Bay area from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

“There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”


“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel Proust

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