Craig Maciolek

  • Social Sprawl

    Social Sprawl is just like Urban Sprawl, but with social interactions and behaviors.  The desire to spread out socially and continuously make new friends causes sustainable social structures, with their established mores and norms, to be neglected and deteriorate. The… Continue reading

  • Management is necessary, but… the existential question we are presented with is,.. are we going to manage our own population like industrial livestock; pigs, chickens, and cattle? or like free roaming deer and elk in a national forest. Continue reading

  • When pressured, a single herd of animals will divide into smaller groups to increase the odds of specie survival. Continue reading

  • A Modern View of Socialism

    To improve our society we manage the flow of water by damming rivers, drilling wells and building aqueducts, canals, and indoor plumbing. All designed to eliminate the flood/drought cycle, and provide water to where it is needed most.  A modern… Continue reading

  • The Cycle of Consumer Culture

    The more stuff we have, the harder it is to clean and maintain. The harder it is to clean and maintain, the less we clean and maintain. The less we clean and maintain, the more dirty and dysfunctional it all… Continue reading

  • Manufactured Consent

    ~ “Andrews!! Wait up!” > “What going on?” ~ “I have a question for you… how do we make compliant people accept that it is necessary to force non-compliant people do things against their will.” > “I have no idea… Continue reading