We are the Unenlightened Generalists. We form connections between people and ideas through education, art, information science, human development, and applied philosophy.
Writing
Advice from a weary editor who is on your side. Ever wonder what an editor is thinking about your story? Usually, just before they start reading, they’re thinking “I hope this is good!” Here’s how to make it good.
Essay
Anyone reading this can be doing amazing things. If we’re not careful, in our quest to imitate the great entrepreneurial minds of our century, we’ll find ourselves running over a cliff.
Economics
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…
Health
For those of us with chronic conditions, life can often feel like a series of compromises and fallbacks. I’m fortunate in many ways. I also have a chronic illness and a host of secondary, comorbid chronic conditions.
Essay
The Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better. A practical mode of bettering ones life, the Solarpunk ideal is the realization that a resistance needs to ignite, a resistance to the idea that “things are just
Pop-Culture
I was one of those young men who thought that Pride and Prejudice was the last thing I wanted to experience. But, oh, how I was wrong. I had accepted the prevailing masculine norm of my culture without realizing it; I had become colonized by thoughts which were not my own.
Education
We do not want to lay down a pattern or type to which men of all sorts are to be made by some means or another approximate. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they preserve self-respect?
Health
On November thirteenth, members of the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) issued a decision on a crisis. Given what we know of the impacts of climate change, it is quite likely that California will continue to see many devastating fires in the years ahead, and schools need to be ready for tha
Politics
This is not an article tackling all the many broad issues, nor even those which I usually mention. No, this is a different sort of article. It comes to me, as the November 6th election day draws to a close, that there is a substantial problem with the voting mindset in the United States, one which
Voting Guide
Compiled for District 2. Includes Sonoma County and Sebastopol voter information. Compiled for District 2. Includes Sonoma County and Sebastopol voter information.
Environment
As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things. As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things.
