June 1st 2025 How far do we need to fall? How far do we need to fall? From Heather Cox Richardson. Internationally, Musk’s destruction of the United States Agency for International Development, slashing about 80% of its grants, is killing about 103 people an hour, most of them children. The total so far is about 300,000 people, according to Boston University infectious disease mathematical modeller Dr. Brooke Nichols. Ryan Cooper of The American Prospect reported today that about 1,500 babies...
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May 31st 2025 The supremacy of greater suffering The supremacy of greater suffering Following from my post yesterday (The Supremacy Virus. https://syntropic.world/the-supremacy-virus/) supremacy also lives in the dangerous, nasty corners of comparison. When I am in the surf, I compare myself to other surfers, and often I notice the nasty little bead of supremacy rear her ugly curls. Even in the corners of comparing victim status. My pain is bigger, deeper, wilder, longer than yours. My...
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May 30th 2025 The supremacy virus The supremacy virus From the simple to the extreme. We have the obvious ones. Colour, gender, financial wealth. We have the religious ones. One god better than another. One god offering heaven, or sex with many women, and the other eternal damnation. We have educational supremacy. The elite schools and the access they provide to the elite cabal. No meritocracy here. Just advantage from the get go. We have the intellectual elites, who snooty nose those of...
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May 29th 2025 Alive is a way of being Alive is a way of being To feel alive. Truly, outrageously, vibrantly alive. To build living enterprises. Living, changing, transforming relationships. To refuse the static, the entropic. To walk to the edge and play with risk. To inhabit alive is an investment in micro-actions repeated. Integrity. Health. Movement. Change. Fierce love. The hardest conversations never avoided. Handle the money. Hold living intentions. Rest. Play. Alive is a way of being,...
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May 28th 2025 Empire doesn’t serve humanity Empire doesn’t serve humanity I was in the surf this morning, the most amazing sunrise and gentle, easy surf after weeks of bigger waves. My rhythm was out, as happens without reason. I was frustrated. More and more people arrived to surf, typical when there are small, easy waves. I caught myself saying to myself – What is wrong with me? And then I noticed the flood of emotions behind these words. My devil words. What is wrong with me? An arrowhead...
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May 27th 2025 Imagine a better future together Imagine a better future together When the systems and structures deliberately reduce humans to utilities, commodities, or numbers in a spreadsheet, when the profit-maximising machine discards life, we do not need to fear AI. The fear arrived long before AI. When the supposed titans of AI say publicly that AI will not survive if they cannot steal all the work of artists, we know the Rubicon has been crossed. Our precious work is the 2025 version...
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May 26th 2025 Imagine a future together Imagine a future together I search inside me for a way to navigate my relationship to those many people of the world who are at generational effect of racism and dismissal as humans. I walk the lands of people who inhabited these lands for close to 60,000 years. They did not ask for the arrival of my ancestors. My ancestor’s arrival was not my fault. How do I walk and live on this land as someone who has benefited from the horror inflicted at the hands...
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May 25th 2025 I have no words I have no words A beautiful sunrise. Powerful surf. Breakfast with family. A warm sunny day, not even a touch of winter evident. Today, I hold Dr Alaa al-Najjar and her nine slaughtered children and critically injured husband in my heart. I try to make more room for the hundred more killed these last few days, and the thousands starving. I am overwhelmed. I have no words. Photo May 25th 2025, Article written May 25th 2025 Were you forwarded this email? Get on the...
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May 24th 2025 Truth and Reconciliation Truth and Reconciliation We humans have and continue to inflict horror and cruelty on our fellows. To witness it is to drown in despair. To live at the effect of it, at the most egregious, intractable effect of cruelty, I can only reach deep into my well of empathy, using the minor acts of injustice, asymmetrical power and systemic bullying that many of us have felt. We must confront the truth of our bloodied, exploitative, colonising and injustice past....
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