The counter-culture is filled with memes or ‘brands’ competing for visibility within the larger culture. The most visible of these are usually apocalyptic scenarios of various flavors: Peak Oil, Collapse, 2012.
Each of these scenarios has a certain amount of value as prods to motivate people towards asking questions and constructing creative alternatives for the [...]
Category Archives: Apocalypse
Sustainable Branding Within The Counter-Culture
October 31, 2007 – 1:13 pm
2012 Is People!
September 17, 2007 – 7:01 pm
Wanted to promote this lovely comment of the Esteemed Mr. Puma up to prime-time:
We’re all the time anticipating some kind of big ‘event,’ some kind of apolcalyptic ‘thing’ we have to do, when all that we’ve really had to do is be nice to each other and talk about stuff we find interesting. The community-creation [...]
Ownership of Experience
September 2, 2007 – 1:39 pm
Nights ago, the earth cast its shadow across the face of the moon. Separating it for a moment from us and us from it, a shadow thrown over our perception of it. The moon as cast in red sackcloth, or whatever the Book of Revelations says. John Lennon and Yoko reporting from their honeymoon bed [...]
While passing the graveyard, I found a skull.
August 14, 2007 – 7:34 pm
To You Whose Skull I Find
The thing you’re not realizing about “enlightenment” is that it is just another state of being - just like anything else is. It is one facet of the human experience, one of many. And it is always a trade-off when you take one shape over another. You must remember that [...]
Universal Hand Soul Form
July 12, 2007 – 2:47 pm
The clock above the doorway fell and hit me on the back as I entered the bathroom. Time is beating down on me as I attempt to purify myself. But from what I remember, that clock has never worked. And yet it’s remained there on the threshold, some silent guardian and reminder. You may not [...]
