President Obama said we’re going to restore science to its rightful place and transform our schools and universities to meet the demands of a new age. Scientists have been hard at work on that for 40 years. It doesn’t mean longer school days and more homework; it means a whole new approach to science and education. Find out how to get that education yourself with high school level books that are available at mainstream bookstores. This is an introduction to every other book on this site. Available in booklet and audio CD.


Evolutionary psychology is a biological approach to psychology that starts with human evolution. It’s the study of universal traits of humanity and of the origins of differences among groups. This is the most direct route to Peace on Earth. By discouraging people from learning about evolution, Christian fundamentalists are preventing Peace on Earth from happening. Available in book and two audio CD set.


The anti-globalization revolution is a struggle against the globalization of Capitalism. No matter what name it goes by, the concentration of resources among a small group of people results in a concentration of decision-making power. People are inherently self-interested, which means centralized decision making power can never be trusted. These and all the other main points of the anti-Capitalist revolution have been proven scientifically, while the idea that Capitalism can ever lead to a just or sustainable society is founded on lies and superstitions. Available in book and free audio download, and in condensed form in booklet and audio CD.


In the evolution versus intelligent design debate, the Christian fundamentalists had an advantage in that the Bible is a story of the world and a reference book to life, while the scientists don’t have anything similar. So this three-volume set is a scientific story of the world and reference book to life. Volume 1 is a philosophical approach to evolution and human psychology, which brings together major discoveries scientists have made into the origins of religion, the history of world civilization, the origins of emotions, social organization, learning, child development, and male/female relations. That scientific foundation creates a solid foundation for a humanistic philosophy of life, death, metaphysics, and choices we have for the future. Available in book and free audio book.


The philosophical foundation of Volume 1 is so solid that by changing a few words I switch to a scientific approach in Volume 2. That’s an easier foundation to use to build up to complicated forms of human behavior, like political, economic, and environmental systems. Available in book and free audio download.


Now that I’ve shown how the psychology of individual people turns into political, economic, and environmental systems, in Volume 3 I use that as a common ground to fit together the goals of progressive movements and ideologies. That includes the anti-Capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-border, anti-nuclear, peace, environmental, animal rights, and feminist movements, Atheism, progressive religion, Indigenous Decolonization, Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism. Available in book and free audio download.


The content of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution has been established so thoroughly that you can learn how the global environment and evolutionary psychology work with cycles you can see happening in a garden. That means all the third-world farmers who are being driven off their land by globalization can learn planetary biology as easily as anyone else. And that means they can prove that college educated politicians have no excuse for not knowing that Capitalism isn’t environmentally sustainable and will lead to people fighting over resources. The global educational feudal system ends here. Available in book and free audio download, and the text is posted in its entirety on this site.


This is a rigorous academic version of the connections between evolutionary psychology and the theatrical directing style developed by Constatin Stanislavski, and how I have used them to draw connections among the observations about life different groups of people have made. That is followed by a working class activist perspective on science and the education system in America. Beware, because this is college level evolutionary psychology, followed by my first hand account of what it’s like to have been condemned by the education system to live in a neighborhood where racial hate crimes are a fact of life. Available in book only.


This is an expanded version of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution, with 10 additional chapters on topics specific to the Anarchist movement. That includes classist attitudes by the middle class majority, and the misguided rejection of science. This is written for Anarchists specifically, so if you don’t have any experience in the Anarchist movement, you won’t be able to keep up with the terminology and obscure references. If you are an Anarchist, beware, because I grew up in Down East Maine, and I wrote this in my native dialect. If you middle class radicals can’t wrap your brains around the fact that the speaking habits of sailors and lumberjacks aren’t part of the system of oppression like you accuse them of being, you don’t have a global working class revolution. Available in book only until I can find time to finish the audio recording.

A New (and Old) Definition of Patriotism:

Once upon a time, a bunch of patriots fought the Revolutionary War and won our independence from Britain.  Now that our country has been threatened once again, patriots are supposedly people who fight to protect America once again.  So why is it that the Patriot Act so badly undermines the First Amendment and so many of our other Constitutional rights that the original patriots fought so hard to establish in the first place?  Could this be yet another example of powerful people attempting to twist public opinion to their own advantage by attaching words that most people interpret a certain way to a set of rules that accomplish exactly the opposite of what that word stands for?

In George Orwell’s book Nineteen-Eighty-Four, the government of the empire of Oceana divides up its functions among four ministries:  The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty, which basically meant the “Ministry of Brainwashing People”, the “Ministry of Waging War”, the “Ministry of Stomping People Down”, and the “Ministry of Keeping Everyone Poor”.  Of course, Nineteen-Eighty-Four  is a work of fiction, so what does that have to do with real life, right?  I mean, obviously, George Orwell possessed some kind of magical powers that enabled him to write books that people are still reading 60 years later, even though nobody has the slightest clue what the f*ck he’s talking about, right?

The problem with trying to defend America by undermining the most important principles it’s founded upon is that George W. Bush may be good at political aikido on a small scale, but Osama bin Ladin is good at it on a much larger scale.  (Or at least, let’s pretend that’s true for the moment.)  President Bush is trying to play checkers while Osama bin Ladin is playing chess.  Osama bin Ladin has posed a threat to America, and has forced President Bush to react to it.  If President Bush uses the existing apparatus of our political system to try to keep America safe in the short term, he’s going to destroy America in the long term—which is exactly what Osama bin Ladin wants.  In America, our political, legal, and economic systems function a certain way, and a lot of people have a problem with it, because those things are constructed to serve the needs of humanity according to an obsolete understanding of humanity.  (I’m sure Osama didn’t figure all this out in terms of all this “evolution” heresy, but however he did it, he figured out enough about humanity to be able to do this, just like Mohammed figured out enough about humanity to build a religion that 1/4 of the world’s population are still following 1500 years later.)

In America, the people in power benefit a lot from the way things are set up.  The people who have a problem with the way things work are people who aren’t in power.  The people in power figure out how to use the resources they have available to benefit themselves, just like people have done throughout our evolution.  The people who aren’t in power also use the resources they have available to benefit themselves as well as they can, even though they don’t have as many resources as the people in power.  One of the resources the people who aren’t in power have is the First Amendment.  If we undermine the First Amendment with the so-called “Patriot” Act, we change the resources each group has available:  The powerful people who have lots of resources already gain even more resources, and the people who are doing the best they can with the few resources they have available, lose resources.   Specifically, if we undermine the First Amendment with the so-called “Patriot” Act, the people who are trying to change  America to make it serve humanity better—and who consequently threaten what the people in power have—lose their ability to find peaceful, constructive ways to make America function better.  If we give the people in power even more resources to use against the people who threaten their power, don’t you think they’re going to use them?  That’s not what the “Patriot” Act was intended for, but it’s an evolutionarily mathematical inevitability that it’s going to be used that way.  Osama doesn’t need to destroy America; he only needs to push on Americans just right to make them destroy America themselves.

I think Teddy Roosevelt said it best when he said, “Patriotism means standing by the country.  It does not mean standing by the president.”

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