http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 22 May 2013 09:50:00 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:50:00 Liberating America’s Worldview: Recovering from Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): "Because the cops don’t need you and man they expect the same"
by Phil Rockstroh

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/15/liberating-americas-worldview/

Editor's note: "Occupy Wall Street protesters appealed ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/48 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:51:33 Cleansing Wall Street of Blame: "By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It": Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies
By Phil Rockstroh

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/07/cleansing-wall-street-of-blame/

Editor's Note: The Right’s giant megaphone is reversing the narrative for today’s crisis: It is Barack Oba... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/47 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:41:26 Editors note: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and right-wing talk-show hosts are whipping up their supporters against Occupy Wall Street, while some Democrats support the OWS goals but fear the backlash. However, poet Phil Rockstroh says this movement transcends traditional politics.

http://... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/46 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:41:21 Dehumanizing Late-Stage Capitalism

http://www.truthout.com/dehumanizing-late-stage-capitalism/1320769257

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/07/dehumanizing-late-stage-capitalism/

Editor's Note: Occupy Wall Street (OWS) — and similar protests — don’t fit into the trite frames of America’s ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/45 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:33:29 Punching a Hole in Bubbles of Denial and Addiction: Late Capitalism and Its Discontents of the American Autumn

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/13/punching-a-hole-in-the-bubbles/

October 13, 2011

Editor's note: In America, bubbles come in two forms: how Wall Street insiders suck in a suck... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/44 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:16:58 Editor's Note: For several decades, America’s political/media elites have song the siren song of a post-industrial economy based on “free trade” and “financial innovations” – while silencing dissent that questioned this new-age group think. Now, the results are in, as Phil Rockstroh encountered in t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/43 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:28:02 Life in an Age of Looting: "Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun and Some with a Fountain Pen"
August 12, 2011

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/08/12/life-in-an-age-of-looting/

Editor's note: The ugly scenes of rioting and arson in Great Britain are a preview of the societal breakdown that can be ex... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/42 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:01:00 Beyond the Debt Limit Fiasco: "We Would Rather Die in Our Dread"

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/08/03/beyond-the-debt-limit-fiasco/

Editor's note: The dispiriting battle over the debt ceiling has set many to wondering how America’s profoundly dysfunctional political/media system can and must b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/41 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:16:29 "The Arts of Life They Changed Into the Arts of Death"
Bachmann, Palin, Robertson and the Limits of Logic

By PHIL ROCKSTROH

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/07/19/american-right-and-limits-of-logic/

As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind's imminent reckoning ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/40 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:21:19 Sexual Puritanism and Empire: Sex, Shame, and Military Might (The roots of Puritan Panic and "The Character Issue")
by Phil Rockstroh

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/13/sexual-puritanism-and-empire/

http://www.alternet.org/story/151284/sexual_puritanism_and_empire_sex_shame_and_military_mig... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/39 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:13:34 Leaving The Church of Free Market Miracles: Where does one find succor and seeds of renewal in times such as these?

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/05/17/leaving-a-church-of-free-market-miracles/

Editor's note: A significant part of the U.S. population is stuck in angry denial, unwilling to ac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/38 Thu, 19 May 2011 20:47:58 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050511b.html

[b]Politics of Revenge and Submission:[/b] "When the individual feels, the community reels"
By Phil Rockstroh


[i]Editor’s Note: Many Americans felt giddy over the killing of Osama bin Laden in part because his name was associated with the la... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/37 Sun, 08 May 2011 18:55:42 Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: a comb-over treatment for declining empire
by Phil Rockstroh

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/26


Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often possesses little correlation to its i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/36 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:25:50 Phil Rockstroh is a poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living in New York City. He may be contacted at: phil@philrockstroh.com. Visit Phil's website http:// philrockstroh.com/ And at FaceBook: http:// www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000711907499

Angela Tyler-Rockstroh is a Broadcast Designer... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/35 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:04:44 Why Are Americans So Easily Conned?
by Phil Rockstroh

http://www.alternet.org/story/150580/why_are_americans_so_easily_conned/

Hiding From Shame, Addicted to Optimism: The Tyranny of our Collective Comfort Zones


The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/34 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:03:54 America's Escape from Knowing
By Phil Rockstroh
March 28, 2011

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/032811a.html

(The Mark Inside: Joseph Beuys And Coyote meet "Humanitarian" Bombing Campaigns)

Editor’s Note: For many of us, one of the regrets about dying is that we don’t get to see ho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/33 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:20:54 Original video as visual, political poem: A Zoo Of Our Own Making: We will kill for empire and parking space, by Phil Rockstroh and Angela Tyler-Rockstroh. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/32 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:43:52 Why the Jokes about Japan's Tragedy

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/031711a.html

From Celebrities To Tsunamis: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."


A number of years back, Pauline Kael took Steven Spielberg to task for his depict... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/31 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:17:04 A Full-Body Scan for the US Empire

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/120210b.html

Editor’s Note: Even as the U.S. government expands its abilities to pry into the secrets of everyone on the planet, American officials are fuming over the exposure of their own secrets in the recent release of t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/30 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:30:17 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/111110a.html

Angry Voters of a Decaying Empire

consortiumnews.com

Angry Voters of a Decaying Empire

By Phil Rockstroh
November 11, 2010

Editor’s Note: The collective will of American voters, as expressed in Election 2010, to put corporatist Republic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/29 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:50:49 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/26-1

Every Day Is Halloween in Empire: The Zombie Apocalypse of Duopoly

by Phil Rockstroh


Because, at this time of the year, we take pleasure in being frightened, let's shuffle through the US Empire's House of Horrors. On our tour, we cringe before... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/28 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:58:34 Part Tinker Bell, Part Predator Drone: The Fantasy of the Presidency as Deus ex Machina
by Phil Rockstroh

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/19-2
Published on Thursday, August 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

The devices employed in US election cycles and its national politics, in general... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/27 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:15:13 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/080410a.html

Editor’s Note: Between the idiocy of Sarah Palin’s tweets and the pomposity of Larry Summers’s faith in a magical market rests the challenge for humanity to restore reason and responsibility before the madness takes civilization over the cliff.

I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/26 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:05:24 A Heap Of Broken Images: Social media and the architecture of anomie
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/071310a.html

In an age, when nature is besieged and the political landscape blighted, and one stands, stoop shouldered and wincing into the howling wasteland of epic-scale idiocy extant in the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/25 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:52:24 A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Day-In-A-Dying-Empire-A-by-Phil-Rockstroh-100702-329.html

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/07/a-day-in-a-dying-empire-an-intimate-fable-on-current-events/


A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/24 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:49:28