Since when is being a mom not a real job?
On the eve of Mother’s Day, with no warning whatsoever, Instagram deleted my wife’s account because someone reported her for sharing photos of the natural act of breastfeeding (which, importantly, included no nudity). My wife’s Instagram account was an investment of over three years of her life, and represents the space in which she documented … Continue reading
The way things should be…
It is a common practice these days to look at the world and the things in it with a sense of disenfranchised self-righteousness. We look at all the violence and the pollution that humanity has wrought over the centuries and make every effort to distance ourselves from these negative aspects of our history. It is … Continue reading
Hotel Rungyong
I was reminded of an old idea I used to love, a story really, about how the internet would someday let us all see the world from everyone else’s perspective. That would be the day we, as a selfish, disparate, atomic, individualized, and cultured species, “got it”. We all live a lot like the other, … Continue reading
No Surprise: Corporate media not full of surprises when it comes to investigating the misdeeds of sponsors
The Winnipeg Sun and Peak of the Market are at it again. The Winnipeg Sun and CJOB have both been waging a relentless campaign against the Canadian Wheat Board. And this has been echoed to a lesser extent across the Sun News Network. The arguments against the CWB are predictable and in line with the … Continue reading
A Radical Definition of Radical
In Short: Radical — to be radical means to oppose the orthodoxies of the times, be they religious, political, social, institutional, economic, etc. One is more radical, the more fundamental and total the change for which they agitate. In more detail: Because the meaning of radical has been overdetermined, we have fallen prey to many … Continue reading
I Will Sell You The Mars Trilogy
I highly suggest you commit whatever time it takes to read the 1800 or so pages in the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson, an award winning science fiction epic published in three parts, beginning with Red Mars in 1993. Kim Stanley Robinson delivers what has rightly been called “hard science fiction.” It is a … Continue reading
Humour and the Tao
Despite its simplicity, the philosophy of the Lao Tzu can often come across as strange, the meanings elusive and the tone serious. Especially as pertains to the tone, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as we here at nothingjustis dig deeper and deeper into the Tao, the more we realize, not only … Continue reading
Disillusionment
In Short: The process of realizing something you believed in (a person, a truth, an idea, an institution, a system of governance, etc) is not true, coming to terms with this, and taking the opportunity to reevaluate what you had believed to be true with the intentions of finding new meaning. In more detail: The … Continue reading
Nothing Just Is 
Festival Night
Posted by nothingjustis on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Note: These posts are not meant to be plot summaries, but commentaries. While we do not go out of our way to spoil, hints if not spoilers about later chapters and even books are occasionally discussed. We recommend reading this post after you have read the parts we are discussing. Mars has meant many things … Continue reading →
Category Anarchism, Fiction, Nothing Just Is, Politics, The Tao, Uncategorized, Writing · Tagged with Anarchism, commentary, Festival Nights, Frank Chalmers, John Boone, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars, politics, Red Mars, Tao, uncarved block, Utopia