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with the eclectic exploits and musings of yours truly, Stan Kahn
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Y3K Order a copy from Amazon.com
also available at other online bookstores
Read Introit and First Three Chapters
Read Review Published in Communal Societies Magazine
Y3K is primarily a look back from the year 2999 at the world’s
looming social/ecological crisis from the viewpoint of Max and
his extended family; thirtieth century hippie communards. Inspired by my own five years of living communally, the beginning of the book unveils an evolved form of that lifestyle in the old growth forests of America’s Pacific Northwest.
Loosely based on the biblical ‘1000 years of peace’ subsequent
to ‘Entropy Gaia,’ the earth’s near death experience, it describes
an ecotopian world where society has advanced far beyond war,
exploitation and deprivation; where humanity has learned to
live lightly on the earth and allowed a natural Eden to
regenerate.
However, their hip earthly paradise is under threat—Satan
returns—from the very same callous and disrespectful attitudes
towards life and the environment that we are dealing with today.
Y3K is a road novel that nearly circles the world. Travel along
with Max through a fascinating and flourishing communal
movement as he plays his part in trying to protect the world’s
forests and counter the destructive new mania for growth.
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Parallel
U - Living and Working in
Slice of Life
If you really can’t get
enough of this
And there's more. I've recently written three articles for a Cambo-expat-oriented magazine called Bayon Pearnik on buying, owning and driving a car in Cambodia.
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New Market, Phnom Penh
Overloaded Pickup, Rural Cambodia |
The Blog Has Arrived - Go to stansrant.blogspot.com
Latest Entries
Reservoir Going Dry
The US has been living way beyond its means because the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency exempts it from the hard choices that every other country has to make under the same spendthrift conditions. Every other country has to raise taxes, cut expenditures and generally tighten its belt. The US only has to print more dollars.
Bad Sports
The title refers to how professional sports are organized in the US, not necessarily the sports themselves or how they are played. The condition of sports is not today’s most pressing problem, but nonetheless serves as a metaphor for how much of America is dominated, for ill effect, by the corporations and the related mindset.
The Mother of All Bubbles
Back in the heady days of the 1990’s dot-com bubble there was a TV clip, on Nation Public Broadcasting I believe, that profiled a couple who were what I’d describe as extreme, or more appropriately mindless, investors. They had gambled their entire stash on a company they knew only by its stock market code. They had no idea what it actually did. That was four or five years before the crash, so they might well have cleaned up.
JOURNEY TO
THE EAST
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North of Kathmandu at 13,000 feet
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Goa, on India's West Coast |
Guangxi Province |
FAR OUT AND AWAY On the Asia Travelers Trail - 1992
First time out at the age of fifty, join me on a year's journey through eight countries.
GLOBAL
DEMOCRATIC
This is somewhat dated after
12
years, but the essence is the same: We will eventually have a single
world
government.
Introduction,
Table of Contents and Chapter 1. The Inspiration
Instant Runoff Voting for Oregon
Fair
Vote Oregon
STRUCTURAL LEGISLATIVE REFORM
Ideas for a radical restructuring of America's electoral systems
STAN
KAHN for District 14 November
1998
Oregon State House of Representatives Pacific Green Party
ELECTORAL
CHANGES
submitted to the 1999 Oregon
Legislature
And finally a few favorite
Links
stan at tripeast . com(put them together to send an email; they’ve been separated to foil email spammers)