Economics and Politics

Written By Steve Firkins

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On Metamodernism and Curvism
On Metamodernism and Curvism

Curvism is the word I have been using for over forty years to describe an art concept that takes us into a more hopeful future. Like metamodernism, Curvism is a reaction to both modernism and postmodernism. Curvism, however, goes further back to include an understanding of premodern times, not fully accounted for by metamodernism.

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The New Green Homestead Program
The New Green Homestead Program

The Earth needs healing from a history of human misuse, abuse, destruction, and greed. Humans need to quickly act together to stop global warming. I believe that a New Green Homestead Program can help begin a process of healing nature and the Earth. It can help achieve a better balance between nature and human culture.

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On Civil Disobedience 2020
On Civil Disobedience 2020

Each of us is capable of doing much much more to change the world for the better than just casting an occasional vote. Thoreau and Gandhi advocated and set examples for using our whole being for being the change we want to see happening in our world.

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Curvism: The Curved Worldview
Curvism: The Curved Worldview

The art and philosophy of Curvism creates a conceptual framework and model to identify and explain the problems of world history and what seems to be missing. Curvism points the direction for moving forward into a more hopeful future.

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Workers’ Capitalism
Workers’ Capitalism

By spreading the wealth more to workers, they consume more, save more, and become investors and stock owners. Eventually more money circulates through the economy creating continued coordinated sustained growth in the economy, jobs, and the stock market, that benefits all, not just the rich.

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Jesus the Helpless Baby
Jesus the Helpless Baby

We need to remember it is only by receiving that we have anything to give.

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It’s Still Not too Late
It’s Still Not too Late

Woe is me. Oh, the world of buying and selling. Is there no escape?

I look out my window. I see blue sky and colored leaves. It’s still a beautiful day. I think I’ll return to the woods and take my family with me. It’s still not too late.

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Jesus the Economist
Jesus the Economist

Our current capitalistic system is immoral. Capitalism has corrupted human nature and is killing the planet. We can no longer afford this type of economy. Capitalism as we know it is ending. The economic philosophy of Jesus offers us a new way forward.

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Off the Road
Off the Road

I love to get out of the cubical world and into the light. I love to see my shadow. I am my shadow and my shadow is me. We are connected. When I see my shadow I know I am alive and standing in the light. My shadow and I are dependent on the light for our existence. Without light, we die.

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My dog is my Zen Master
My dog is my Zen Master

I love the way my dog seems so alive, awake and aware when we go into the woods, to the river. He is such an animal. I’m stuck being human. I’ve forgotten my animal nature. It has been almost completely programmed out of me by our modern, computerized, commercialized consumer culture.

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Election 2008 Begins

I believe America is ready for its next unstoppable revolution in democracy. Will this be the year the non-voters elect themselves as representatives of American democracy and overthrow the rich and powerful controllers of America's government?

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No Cause for Alarm

Who needs a natural environment when we can live and do live in our own controlled world.

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Freedom

America needs to wake up. American democratic freedom is dying. The free rein of laissez-faire capitalism is killing true democratic freedom around the world. Capitalistic freedom and democratic freedom are not the same cause or force and should never be equated. Capitalistic freedom is a false god. True democratic freedom is the only force that has the possibility of controlling and containing the corrupting power of capitalism. Democratic freedom is the last hope of the hopeless.

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Buddha and the Wilderness

Every time I get a chance to escape the man-made world, I see it from the perspective that it’s all a man-made illusion and that it suffers mostly from unnatural causes made by humans themselves. Consequently, I realize that if it’s all an illusion and man-made, then it can be imagined differently … remade, recreated. Humans have the capacity to choose to live differently, to establish and live by economic systems based on needs, equity, fairness, justice, compassion, respect, mutual aid, cooperation, and love. Not greed.

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No More New Roads

What business do the Republicans have building more roads in our National Forests? Big business! The special interests of the timber, mining, oil, coal, uranium, cattle, natural gas, and tourist industries all want new roads built so they can get their machines into the last remaining wilderness areas and their hands on the last remaining natural resources currently controlled and protected by the federal government.

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Bad News

We have cut our umbilical cord to mother earth. Believing we are independent, we have forgotten our ties with nature. Our individual lives are now directly dependent and chained to the life and growth of the machine. There’s something wrong with this way of life, something inhuman about this way of living.

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Old God, New God

Each and every one of our transactions, transgressions, deeds, words, and thoughts are monitored and recorded forever, traceable and unerasable. Science did away with the old God and took God’s place.

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Heaven and Retirement

The afterlife of heavenly paradise has been replaced by the golden years of retirement, but only if you work hard all your working years serving the scientific economic system and follow all its rules. People must constantly worry about how they spend and save their time and money and what investments they make to be able to afford a comfortable retirement.

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Love or Money

When god is money, people and resources are enslaved and forced to serve the power of money. Love is the only real choice we have that can counteract or at least counterbalance the power of money. When god is love, money can serve as a tool of love.

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What’s Wrong With Capitalism?

January and February 2000. - So here we are, at the beginning of a new century, a new millennium. Will it be a new beginning or will it be more of the same? Now what do we do and where do we go from here? What’s wrong with the way things are? What’s wrong with capitalism?

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A New Millennium

Our language gives us many words for specific actions we can take to undo the damage we have done and to live more wisely on this earth. I offer a list of verbs to guide our actions.

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When Jesus Returns

When Jesus returns, his message will be: I’m not coming back. Even if I did return, I don’t think I could save you from the mess you’ve gotten yourselves into.

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Gallery Collections

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“I Can’t Breathe”
“I Can’t Breathe”
Curvism Creatures
Curvism Creatures
Cubism to Curvism
Cubism to Curvism
Landscapes (Wood)
Landscapes (Wood)
Shadow Selfies 2005-2015
Shadow Selfies 2005-2015
Earth
Earth
Drawings 1985-1990
Drawings 1985-1990
Masks
Masks
Black and White Prints
Black and White Prints
Early Photographs
Early Photographs
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