Featured artist, Patrick Woodroffe When we’re speaking about evolution we have to understand that nature develops in what can be seen as stages. Many people, and perhaps they well should, have a strong aversion to what we call dominance hierarchies. Generally when we hear the word hierarchy, this is what…

Featured artist Dylan Cole It’s no question to many of us that everything evolves. This is something that happens to biological creatures over millions of years, but also happens to societies and even general aspects of societies. Social organisms change shape and divide just like cells divide. Whenever a healthy…

6 people walk into a bar… The first one is the woman that was outside digging in the trash who everyone assumes is mentally handicapped. Her white shirt having perhaps never been washed had come to take on a uniform hue of Beige. She seemed to live in some magical…

Featured artist Irie Wata It was not Henry George, but Joseph Pierre Proudhon who suggested that property is theft. He explained that if we take a property’s title to see who owned it before, and before them, and before them, all the way to the beginning, we would inevitably find…

Featured artist Anahata Katkin of Papaya Living Patriarchy, it seems, is easy to define, right? Etymologically speaking it simply means something along the lines of fatherly control. Any dictionary could lead us into that discovery. Naturally, as we all can assume, things are not always what they seem at face…

Flappers, Beats, Greasers, Hippies, Punks? Who comes next? Do we have a name for the next generation of visionaries and artists? Decentralists, the Intellectual Dark Webbers, Bitcoiners, Blockchain community…? As the pluralistic world of global-centric thinking of those advocating for equal opportunity and saving the planet began to take shape…

I suppose it is wise to believe only when it is our own personal experience, and in this age of information our news sources tend to be dubious to say the least. Recent news about Kalalau Valley stirs the notion that the valiant protectors and upholders of justice have claimed…

I feel my novice, perhaps paradoxically, gives me a little advantage on understanding obstacles to mainstream adoption of amazing new blockchain platforms. I have a background in community building and one of the most important questions that people are reluctant to ask is, “Why do most communities fail?”. From ancient…

Social Oppression and the 4 Noble Truths It is no secret that freedom can cease to exist. Far beyond the dogma of religious institutions, we find that our social architectures can reflect our spiritual traditions. If the ideas and actions of Mother Teresa, Simone de Beauvoir, Noor Inayat Khan, Vandana Shiva, Pema Chodron, and others, were supported…