an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
America is a Violent Country — Crooked Timber
“The following figures are from the OECD for deaths due to assault per 100,000 population from 1960 to the present. As before, the most striking features of the data are (1) how much more violent the U.S. is than other OECD countries…”
Creative Interventions Toolkit | Community Accountability
from Billy. “Organizations that deal with domestic violence and sexual assault generally view violence as an individual problem or rely on the police and criminal justice system as a solution. We wanted to turn back to our communities and strengthen community-based systems to resist violence in all of its forms.”
Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog)
So charming :)
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler
“What their success shows is that the issues they raised—that existing patterns of technological development would lead to social upheaval, and that we needed to guide technological development in directions that did not challenge existing structures of authority—echoed in the corridors of power.”
“Beloved, do not take part in any of these components of Satan’s Spiritual Structure.*…”