Successful Immigrants

This is what I wish leftist social justice was for: Small U.S. businesses thrive with Ethiopian woman's help -CNN.com

Instead, The New Left, circa late 1960's to now, would want these immigrants to NOT assimilate into a capitalist society, and try convince the immigrants that their pre-colonial era cultural heritage is the more valuable and to hold onto it.

Of course a rational approach, and the one the people in this story could very likely be doing, is to assimilate into and master capitalism while retaining a sense of unique cultural heritage.

It is the New Left that draws a disabling line in the sand, in which cultural and personal evolution and adaptation are a dirty sin much like St Augustine saw women.

Disruptive Tech

I wished I had articulated this while enrolled in the Whole Systems Design Program at Antioch. It would have made clear I was not on board with their social-justice-first orthodoxy.

"I believe in innovation that makes both liberals and conservatives uncomfortable and forced to alter lifestyles and vocations, to get their food in new ways or starve."

Neo-Austerity-Consumerism

I was inspired by this blog entry from John Robb and created this graphic: