HeyJaredDarcy McNeil
I work with my hands by day, father by evening, and write by night. The lived self taught topics of interest range, but they all help in an attempt to try and chip in helping reimagine a positive protopian story for our civilization’s future.
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TR: SHARING ONE SKIN (opens the original)
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CANADA, And The Wealth of Time (opens the original)
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."— Henry David ThoreauPart of rediscovering Canada’s national identity is de-Americanizing our minds. Who we are can only be asked while simultaneously reevaluating ingrained assumptions that might not actually be accurate or worth keeping around.One cultural idea from the United States is the value of capitalism. Or m
NOT AMERICA: A Letter in Defence of Canadian Defiance (opens the original)
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THE EMERGING MIDDLE (opens the original)
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Democracy thrives on an educated middle class, and the middle powers argument of today has a historical precedent in the Middle Ages.Modern democracy did not emerge because a king willed it, or because a populace killed for it. It emerged, in part, because an educated and economically independent middle grew strong enough to mediate between the interests of rich and poor and redistribute concentrations of power throughout society.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substac
CANADA: The Geography of Trust (opens the original)
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The Geography of TrustThe wheel shrunk the world to a region. The sail to an ocean. The steam engine to a continent. The telephone to a conversation. And the internet to an instant.A man stands on a hillside beside a river, overlooking a forested valley descending into the ocean.Four hundred thousand years ago, his life was relatively confined to this valley. Or perhaps the one next to it. His food, water, shelter, and socialization were anchored to this one place and rarely extended beyond wher
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