How is it that sex has become the main focus of morality in today’s so-called civilized countries?    By which I mean mostly heterosexual progenitive sex as a nucleus with a penumbra around it of related and deflected issues which are what I really want to talk about.  Things like what is a family; what is sex besides fertile fucking; why the “state” would want...

Information can be considered culture. The Culture is passed on from generation to generation. Today one factor that is concerning many is this passing of information. This has triggered the invisible struggle of culture versus anticulture, and of globalization versus anti-globalisation. Culture is a thing of value that can not be priced, it took hundreds if not thousands...

Obesity is a huge problem in the United States. The statistics as to how many Americans are obese is frightening. Millions of people who live in the United States are considered obese and that number is growing rapidly every year. We have created a culture and society based around convenience and many people have simply taken advantage of that convenience and the excess...

New forces seem to be at work in Blackfeet history.  For a while now there have been enrolled people with solid academic backgrounds who have organized conferences, produced papers, attended workshops and so on.  They bring family stories and an experienced context to what they say.  Piegan Institute has been archiving materials for more than twenty years, always keeping...

Today’s capitalism has attracted a lot of metaphors: disaster, vulture, end-stage, greedy, terminal, destructive, free-market, casino….  The point of all these paradigms is to describe a capitalism that has become destructive to the world, and thereby destructive even to itself: a kind of murder-suicide capitalism. We have entered the realm of Scorpion Capitalism,...

The first post I wrote about perfume was sort of off-hand, a simple list of the perfumes I’ve worn over the years, where they came from (sometimes gifts, esp. in the beginning) and what they have meant.  I’ve always been very interested in smells for some reason. Then I read “The Emperor of Scent” by Chandler Burr about Luca Turin and was impressed at his analysis...

Here’s one thing US congressional election wasn’t about: foreign policy. The campaign was long, loud and polarized, but somehow the fact that the United States is at war in Afghanistan and Iraq — and carrying out bombings in Pakistan and Yemen — went almost unmentioned. That’s because voters were preoccupied by the economy, of course. But it’s also because...