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.

Now for the Bad News:

There’s just one hitch in my evil master plan for world domination through world unification and the elevation of human consciousness.  Sam Harris talks about it in his book The End of Faith. He doesn’t talk about human consciousness in terms of information packages or evolutionary psychology, but I assume you can connect the dots for yourself.

Once you accept a certain piece of information as true, it affects your perception on the world and your decision-making. If you believed that your best friend was plotting to murder you, or that a diamond the size of a station wagon was buried in your sister’s back yard, or that aliens had abducted you and imbued you with superpowers, any of those beliefs would alter your perception of the world and lead you to make decisions that you wouldn’t make if you didn’t believe those things were true.

Now suppose that you believe that global mass destruction is the path the eternal salvation of your soul.  How is that going to change your perception of the world and the decisions you make?

There’s one of two reactions I usually get when I ask that question.  Either, “But that’s the person’s religious belief—you can’t tell people what religion to believe in,” or, “But it’s the person’s First Amendment right to believe in any religion they want—you can’t outlaw their religion.”

So this is a many-faceted problem.  On the one side, you have people who have been taught to perceive that—literally—global mass suicide is the most effective means conceivable  of preserving the survival of their DNA.  Religious leaders don’t talk about salvation in terms of the survival of your DNA, but what else would eternal salvation mean besides the eternal preservation of your DNA?   You want to live, and they’re offering you a way to live forever.  Since you wanted to live to preserve the survival of your DNA, what do you think living forever would mean?
It doesn’t matter whether any of it is real or not.  As long as people perceive that a certain course of action will lead to their eternal salvation, they perceive  that the course of action will result in the eternal preservation of their DNA.   It doesn’t even matter if that course of action is committing global mass suicide, as long as they perceive that course of action to offer them the eternal preservation of their DNA, that’s exactly what they’re going to do.

Charles Manson’s followers believed this, Jim Jones’ followers believed this, and David Koresh’s followers believed this.  And so do President Bush’s most loyal followers.  It doesn’t matter if they make up 30% of the population of the United States, that’s just a number.  If David Koresh had 100 followers who equated mass suicide with eternal salvation, and President Bush has 100,000,000 followers who equate mass suicide with eternal salvation, that doesn’t prove that President Bush’s followers aren’t a suicide cult, all that proves is that his suicide cult is a million times bigger than David Koresh’s, and is big enough to stand a chance of electing a U.S. president.

And on the other side are a bunch of other people who, for a variety of reasons, either won’t acknowledge this problem, or else believe they can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it.

Well like I’ve said, when a voting majority of people believe that a sensory illusion must be true because they feel it to be true, it turns your entire political system into a graveyard spiral.

It’s easy for us to look back on the Cold War and think, “What a bunch of f*cking idiots those people must’ve been.  They all got caught up in a giant sensory illusion and felt they should all keep on building more and more nuclear weapons just because they all thought everyone else felt like it was a good idea.  They could’ve just faced the facts and said, ‘Hey, this is f*cking stupid, let’s think of something else,’ but instead they brought the world to the brink of destruction.  Why didn’t anyone dare to try to do anything about it?”

Well what are you waiting for?  Now’s your chance!

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