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How to Build a Better Society: Crime, Punishment and Peacekeeping

Oh, hey! You’re still here, that’s awesome. Welcome back to the next part in my extensive essay on how to unfuck end stage capitalism. As you can imagine, it involves the breakdown of everything that’s currently messing up our lives. That’s the short of it. If you’re still following along, it means you want the details, and I commend your interest in the betterment of mankind. If you’re just joining the show, I highly encourage you to read the full series of posts in order, because it will answer a lot of questions you might have: How to Build a Better Society: Intro to An Essay In Multiple Parts How to Build a Better Society: Employment and Universal Basic Income… Read More »How to Build a Better Society: Crime, Punishment and Peacekeeping

How to Build a Better Society: Healthcare

Okay, here we go. One of the more controversial topics that needs to be addressed: Healthcare, and how people get it. If you’re just now joining the rant, please check out the entire series in order: How to Build a Better Society: Intro to An Essay In Multiple Parts How to Build a Better Society: Employment and Universal Basic Income Standard disclaimer: I am not a doctor, economist or sociologist. I just call it like I see it, having observed the clusterfuck that is end stage capitalism and the initiatives other countries have tried that are proving to be successful in fixing it. I’m just taking it a few steps further in the same direction. Onwards! Background Constants As you… Read More »How to Build a Better Society: Healthcare

How to Build a Better Society: Education and Training

Hello, and welcome to part 3 of my essay on how to build a better society. If you missed the previous two parts, here are some handy dandy links for you to check out: How to Build a Better Society: Intro to An Essay In Multiple Parts How to Build a Better Society: Employment and Universal Basic Income This section will be on education and training, because it will all need to change once robots come for our jobs at every level of every sector. We’re going to want a population that can think and not just do what they’re told like good little worker slaves. Yes, I am getting a little salty with these posts, because look around. I… Read More »How to Build a Better Society: Education and Training

How to Build a Better Society: Employment and Universal Basic Income

This is part 2 of my essay on how to build a better society. In case you missed it, go back and read the intro, “Who’s going to pay for this??”  so that I don’t have to keep going over it. As a reminder, the whole reason we’re going through this exercise is because technology is advancing to the point of making human labor obsolete. If you can’t work, you can’t afford to live. We’re not (or shouldn’t be) a society of slavers. Everyone should be able to afford to live. Argue with your conscience, or whatever higher power you worship, if you don’t have one. Standard disclaimer: I am not an economist or sociologist. I just call it like… Read More »How to Build a Better Society: Employment and Universal Basic Income

How to Build a Better Society: Intro to An Essay In Multiple Parts

So I’ve been thinking about this a lot. So much so that I had to get it out of my head and on paper just to get some mental peace. I now have an extensive document saved in my files with a primer for various aspects of human life and society, and how it needs to be unfucked. I decided that I’m going to share my thoughts here on my blog. This is the first in what will be a multi-part series. I will post them in succession, one every week or two, as I get around to polishing the posts. Each one will tackle a different overarching topic that may be divided into sections as needed. DISCLAIMER: I am… Read More »How to Build a Better Society: Intro to An Essay In Multiple Parts

I Just Never Had The Time

Tell me if you heard this one: At a casual get-together, a group of strangers share something personal about themselves. One person says, “I’m a writer,” and immediately, someone in the group responds with, “Oh, that’s so cool! I always wanted to do that, but I just never have the time.” I can pretty much guarantee that every writer has had this interaction multiple times in their life. I am also about 95% sure that writers are the only type of creatives who experience this. No one looks at a professional ballet dancer, singer, or artist and says, “I always wanted to do that, just never have the time.” No, they might say something like, “I always wanted to learn… Read More »I Just Never Had The Time

The Story Ends on December 8th, 2025

Given that title, I now need to specify that this is a book release announcement, not a call to arms. What a world we live in… *cue me sitting in silence for a full 5 minutes, trying to get my brain back on track and figure out what I actually want to say* It’s a lot. Turns out, I have much to say today so, TL;DR: The final installment of the Blood & Shadows series, War of the Shadows, has an official release date on December 8, 2025. Mark your calendars, and click that pre-order button when you find it. The Long Of It Blood Moons was the book that first got me published in 2010. Back then, it was… Read More »The Story Ends on December 8th, 2025

When It’s Almost Too Late:  On The Rise of Global Censorship

I know this is not the type of content you come here to find. I wish more than anything that the world was different, and that I didn’t have to keep posting this type of content. But it’s not. And I’d rather speak up while I can than preemptively shut up and take it lying down.  Already, I’m seeing dangerous developments across the platforms where I have accounts. The signs are there that we have entered an era where our access to information and each other will start to shrink and warp, and I need everyone to take note, prepare themselves, and get ready to act, because the time for sitting on our hands and pretending it’ll all eventually get… Read More »When It’s Almost Too Late:  On The Rise of Global Censorship

Announcing the Finale of Blood & Shadows

One hell of a journey Back in 2008, I was sitting on two and a half books of what was supposed to be a paranormal romance trilogy about futuristic shape shifters. By this point, I had already written well over a million words across many different novels, novellas, and short stories, but these were the first ones I seriously shopped around for publishing.  At the height of the eBook boom, I got lucky. It only took me three rejections to get an acceptance and, on September 10, 2010, the first book of that series was my first ever novel publication. I would go on to publish two more books with that publisher before I discovered that self-publishing was an option… Read More »Announcing the Finale of Blood & Shadows

On Dystopias And How To Survive One Without Losing Your Humanity

A few days ago, I wrote the post below on Facebook, talking about the importance of education in teaching people how to think, rather than what to think. I won’t repeat it all here, you can click below to read it. But I do want to build on the idea, following a different conversation I had with someone more recently. The Mind is a Dangerous Thing to Lose Picture this… Humanity has developed technologies that can do everything a human can do, and do it better. Unlimited storage space remembers every thought, idea, and concept we have ever come up with. Sophisticated computing machines can solve complex problems and equations in seconds. Artificial brains can answer existential questions simply, and illustrate… Read More »On Dystopias And How To Survive One Without Losing Your Humanity