Social Liberty

Cartoon of a big-headed bald man at a grand piano side-eyeing his long white train, now an irrigation ditch. Tiny workers shovel out its silt, a boss points with a stick, one naps, a duck swims and chiles grow at the far end.

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Alan Forester-Kaiser · November 1, 2026

Each spring in northern New Mexico, before the water is let in, the people who share an acequia walk its length with shovels. The mayordomo, elected to manage the ditch, goes ahead with a stick and marks off a section […]

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#thomas paine #agrarian justice #interfaces #opus #language models #acequias #new mexico #mayordomo #parciantes #red vienna #karl-marx-hof #g. d. h. cole #guild socialism #sycophancy #out of one many

Abstract watercolor of six vertical layers: green, vermillion, magenta, yellow, orange and red. Each meeting differs: a set edge, shallow feathering, a scalloped print, deep tongues, and beads of red in the orange.

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Alan Forester-Kaiser · November 1, 2026

On a rough day at Clapham, Benjamin Franklin fetched a cruet of oil and went down to the large pond on the common. He dropped a little on the water from the leeward side, where the waves were largest, and […]

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