Eric's essays and videos

My essays and videos are in links at the top of the page.

And here is a little more of my stuff:

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Politically I lean way to the left, but I’m no longer a math prof — I’ve retired, and I’ve lost all interest in math. It’s a beautiful game, but I’ve discovered that I have 7 billion children and half of them are hungry, so this is no time for playing games. Still, I’ll continue using the “LeftyMathProf” email address and web address, because they’re in other people’s address books now.

By the way, if you like my work, please post links to it. And if I suddenly “disappear,” I hope someone who likes my work will continue it.

And here are a few of my favorite links to other people’s articles and videos:

Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization

Michael Lerner: Spiritual Progressives

Paul Hawken: Blessed Unrest

Marshall Rosenberg: Nonviolent communication

Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell

David Swanson: War Is A Lie

Chalmers Johnson: Blowback

Peter Joseph: Zeitgeist Moving Forward
– especially the film’s last 10 minutes
Peter Joseph: 26 Oct 2011 lecture

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Derrick Jensen: END:CIV
Derrick Jensen at Occupy DC, part one two

Ken Ward: We Are F*cked
(Note from Eric: It is my own belief that we can still get out
of this mess, but only by revolution, and it must be soon.)

Joel Bakan et al.: The Corporation

John Perkins: Economic Hitmen

Howard Zinn: American Empire

Reverend Billy: Church of Stop Shopping

Noam Chomsky: The USSR was not socialism

David Loy: The Three Poisons Institutionalized

Joe Bageant on the unshared universal malaise

Gene Sharp: From Dictatorship to Democracy

David Graeber: Are You An Anarchist?

Jeff Faux: The Global Class War

Charles Eisenstein: Sacred Economics

Stephen Colbert: On emulating vs. admiring

Jon Stewart: On Obama’s Tranny

South Park: Captain Hindsight

Raggedy Ann: The Greedy

Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians
Milgram’s obedience experiment
Zimbardo’s prison experiment
(Note from Eric: These experiments revealed part of the dark side of
human nature. However, it is my belief that when we know our own
nature, we usually choose the better parts. Thus, I would urge everyone
to read about these experiments.)

Bill Moyer on nonviolence
(Note from Eric: I think we are still at a stage where violence is
counter-productive, for reasons Moyer has given. But I wouldn’t
rule out the possibility of violence at some later stage, if the
situation changes — i.e., if we find that we are no longer involved
in mere protest, but are involved in actual civil war.)

Thom Hartmann on the middle class
Thom Hartmann on human nature

George Orwell: 1984

Adbusters: Thought Control in Economics

Alternet: Top stories

Albert Bartlett: Exponential change

Freeway blogger

Free documentaries: sitemap
Top documentary films: index
Films for action: index

David Rovics: music

John Lennon: Imagine
John Lennon: Instant Karma

Billy Bragg: Internationale

The Youngbloods: Get Together

Leonard Cohen: Democracy