We are the Unenlightened Generalists. We form connections between people and ideas through education, art, information science, human development, and applied philosophy.
Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is spending $40 million to attack progressive candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and Kai Newkirk—leaders who champion Medicare for All, economic justice, and real accountability. These grassroots champions are being silenced while the establishment clings to a failing status quo.
Retro Tech
The Commodore Callback 8020 is a $399 retro flip phone running Sailfish OS with system-level social media and browser blocking.
Em Dash
As a teacher, proofreader, and writer, I am perhaps unusually passionate about the em dash. I feel personally incised by the way people are abandoning this punctuation mark.
Libraries
It started in 1970, and it's still taking people by surprise. Yet, despite vicious and villainous attacks, there's still hope.
Activism
Consumer choices alone cannot dismantle systemic injustices. You want change? That takes collective action through unions, activist groups, and political engagement to challenge monopolies and unethical market practices.
Capitalism
Alex Karp’s philosophy degree didn’t fail him—he failed it, and now he’s desperate to make sure no one else learns how to think critically either.
Politics
The 'Board of Peace' heralds a new era of fractured trust and global conflict... but there's still time to stop things from getting out of control.
Philosophy
We often treat individual liberty as a state of being completely untouched by reality. But as Herbert Read and the ancient Stoics understood, true freedom is how we respond to the systems we live in.
Mental Models
Why siloed thinking is a trap, how Newton's Third Law dictates our relationships, and the power of embracing what you don't know.
Sci-Fi
Revisiting J. Michael Straczynski's sci-fi masterpiece decades later. Why the lost art of the 'filler' episode and passionate acting created a universe we'll never see again.
Film Review
Revisiting the 2009 comedy 'Fanboys'. It had a sweet premise and a stellar cast, but does the cruel, predatory humor of the early 2000s hold up today?
Poems harvested and forged from hours of solitude spent in wild places; poems that carry medicine specific to a local watershed; medicine meant for human and more than human ears.
COVID Information, Updates, and Commentary. Click to read The Gauntlet, by Julia Doubleday, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
The Imaginists are dedicated to completely re-thinking how theater serves a whole community, by breaking down barriers to who participates, where is happens and what it is.Â
Katie and Odin - trying new things, creating, and working on living our best lives
An independent publication with local news and views of Sebastopol, CA, and parts of West Sonoma County. Click to read Sebastopol Times, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
No algorithms. No content filters. Honest and insightful analysis and commentary on news from Richmond, VA. Click to read RVA 5x5, by Jon Baliles, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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