Well, Wolverine, I think i'll just recommend you read my book, co-authored with Jerry Harris. 'Cyberradicalism: A New Left for a Global Age.' Go to www.cyrev.net

Far from being Eurocentric, our starting point is that all economies and political systems are subsets of the ecosystem.

Far from being Cartesian, we're rather monistic, and look to the pragmatism of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead as the 'dialectical materialism' of the late 20th century, and Ilya Prigogene for the 21st Century.

Far from being ideologists, we like working hypotheses and open universes.

Finally, personally, though its a long journey, as a student of The Way, I'm plugging away on deconstructing the delusion on the Immortal Soul/ Independent Self. It's a tough climb more often than not.

All in all, while it drifted some from Walmart, it's not been a bad thread. I learned a few new things, and had to rethink some old ones.