Journal of the mental environment
| 79 |  | East and West | East and West Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality, and is leaving a generation pointlessly obsessing over fashion, faux individuality, cultural capital and the commodities of style. A Bill of Rights for Future Generations We, the people of the future, like the multitudes who came before us, have the right to air that smells sweet, to water that tastes pure, and to land that is fertile, unsoiled and green. The Temple of Heaven Almost all visitors to Beijing make the pilgrimage to the Temple of Heaven, whose lantern-like profile rises like a spectre over the Chinese capital, offering its citizens an iconic glimpse of the afterlife. Bolton Dodges War Crimes They started a war with doctored evidence and without United Nations consent. They tortured prisoners, paraded them around naked and subjected them to waterboarding. They held suspects in prisons for years without ever charging them… |
| 78 |  | Media Democracy | Media Democracy America’s Slippery Slope “We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the signs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing.” A look at what happens when we refuse to pay attention to what’s important. The End of Childhood Exposure to nature benefits kids in more than one way. Val Plumwood’s Natural Death A portrait of Australia’s pioneer environmentalist who battled a crocodile and called for the end of environmental abuse. Thought Control in Economics Are economics students, and everyone else for that matter, being cheated out of the truth? Media Democracy What it means to Dan Rather, Arianna Huffington, Amy Goodman and more. |
| 77 |  | The Global Moment | The Global Moment A NEW REVOLUTION The US presidential elections may finally start the revolution the rest of the world has been waiting for. AUSTRALIA’S TURNAROUND After a decade of conservative rule, Australia’s is redressing its past so the country can move forward. TINO SEHGAL By creating “staged situations” Tino Sehgal forces his audiences to confront art. MEDIA BULLY Leonard Asper is distorting Canada’s national discourse. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Armed with potent drugs and technology, a dangerous breed of soldiers will fight America’s future wars. |
| 76 |  | The Reconquest of Cool | The Reconquest of Cool COOL: THE RISE, FALL AND REBIRTH OF AN ATTITUDE A visual essay on the rise and fall of cool. NEW WAVE COFFEE After years of Starbucks domination, indy coffee shops are fighting back. SINS OF OMISSION Economists who should have won the Nobel Prize, and those that should have theirs revoked. THE QUESTION An Algerian journalist’s harrowing account about water torture gives a disturbing glimpse at US actions today. THE PAIN OF OTHERS North America’s growing homeless crisis challenges our own empathy. Plus opinion and analysis by Nick Turse, Stephen Lewis, J.M. Coetzee and Linda McQuaig and Tom Green… Images by Joe Szabo, Larry Sultan, Wolfram Hahn, Jesper Ulvelius, Amani Willlet, Stefan Abrams, Lucy Levene… |
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