![Serge Halimi writes on how the Right-Wing has used an elite billionaire to channel fake-anti-elitism into anti-intellectualism, to make people resent the smugness of ‘cultural elites’ [read:Liberals]. Now the financial elites control everything and everyone else can go to hell.](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Trump-and-Jesus-Economist-Getty-Images-115x115.jpg "‘Culture War’ Advanced Complete Corporate Takeover of the U.S.")
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A Global Perspective on Permaculture Design with Warren Brush
Posted on November 19, 2021 | 1 Comment - Greening Without Gentrification: Expanding Parks and Protecting Communities
Posted on November 12, 2021 | No Comments - Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields, The Veteran-Farmer Movement
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
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Tribute to SomaFM’s Darkwave channel ‘doomed’
Posted on January 22, 2018 | 6 CommentsSomafm.com has streamed an inventive radio channel pioneered by Rusty Hodge featuring, as they called it "Dark industrial/ambient music for tortured souls." The service was recently discontinued until October Halloween season, which to the Gothic-Ambient-Industrial music crowd signifies the end of an era. Following is a sample of sounds from the dark side.
Dancing Devils of Venezuela Challenge US Consumer Culture
Posted on November 8, 2017 | 1 CommentAn exhibition by artist Cristóbal Valecillos in Los Angeles invoked the Dancing Devils of Yare, a 400-year old Venezuelan tradition celebrating life, the triumph of good over evil, and renewal. His provocative interpretation of the diablo masks, hand-sculpted from repurposed waste materials, takes aim at culture and consumption in the US, a plea for overcoming.‘Culture War’ Advanced Complete Corporate Takeover of the U.S.
Posted on December 9, 2016 | No CommentsSerge Halimi writes on how the Right-Wing has used an elite billionaire to channel fake-anti-elitism into anti-intellectualism, to make people resent the smugness of ‘cultural elites’ [read:Liberals]. Now the financial elites control everything and everyone else can go to hell.The Devil’s Paradise of Terence McKenna’s ‘True Hallucinations’
Posted on September 20, 2016 | 1 CommentPsychonaut ethnobotanist Terence McKenna captures the journey along a ghostly trail into the Colombian Amazon Forest, the descent of the Rio Putumayo, and his stumbling upon the "starborn magic mushroom," activated by psilocybin. Watch Peter Bergmann's experimental documentary.Is Classical Music, and the Desire for Rebellion, Dead?
Posted on August 2, 2015 | No CommentsDo today’s elite lack the patience and culture for classical music? Or is it a matter of cultural dominance of the popular, the fame producing, and capital revenue streams which have sacrificed painstaking complex creation? John Halle opines.Will Self: Talentless Hipsters and Commodification Culture
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 3 CommentsThis awful cult of talentless hipsters has its Mecca in Los Angeles, according to Will Self. He asserts his generation took the avant-garde and turned it into a successful rearguard action by the flying columns of capitalism’s blitzkrieg. What to make of the commodification and democratization of culture, and where to go from here?26-Foot Marilyn of The Desert
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsOn the Plaza of American Life, where does 26-foot Marilyn stand? For now, she's straddling Palm Springs tourists. Is she this years' ceramic pink flamingo replacement, soon to be on everyone's front lawn? Let's hope so. America's new moral umbrella is Monroe's revenge. Oow, some do like it hot.
![Check out our special encore presentation of our interview with Human Rights Attorney Steven Donziger recorded in December 2020. We investigate the story of Chevron’s crimes in Ecuador with Mr. […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/free-steven-donziger-36x36.jpg "Criminalizing Activism – Steven Donziger vs Chevron"){kind=small}
![Part 2 of the discussion on Indian Boarding Schools with our guests, SunRose IronShell and Manape LaMere. They continue to discuss Indian Child Welfare Act, the Keystone XL Pipeline and […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Manape-LaMere.crop_-36x36.jpeg "Lost Children of Turtle Island – Part 2"){kind=small}
![Indigenous Activists SunRose IronShell and Manape LaMere speak on Indian Boarding Schools, and how bringing home remains tells the children’s stories of generational trauma. The truth about the US Indian […]](https://www.wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Manape-LaMere-and-SunRose-IronShell-36x36.jpeg "Lost Children of Turtle Island – The Impact of Indian Boarding Schools"){kind=small}
