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Dying of Despair
Notes From the Rising Dark
What is Exponential Decay
Collapse: Slowly Then Suddenly
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Making Sense of Who We Are
What Would Net-Zero Emissions Look Like?
Post Collapse with Michael Dowd (video)
Why Economic Collapse Will Precede Climate Collapse
Being Adaptable: A Reminder List
A Culture of Fear
What Will It Take?
A Future Without Us
Dean Walker Interview (video)
The Mushroom at the End of the World
What Would It Take To Live Sustainably?
The New Political Map (Poster)
Beyond Belief
Complexity and Collapse
Save the World Reading List
Civilization Disease
What a Desolated Earth Looks Like
If We Had a Better Story...
Giving Up on Environmentalism
Going Vegan
The Dark & Gathering Sameness of the World
The End of Philosophy
A Short History of Progress
The Boiling Frog
Our Culture / Ourselves:
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis
The Right to Die
CoVid-19: Go for Zero
Pollard's Laws
On Caste
The Process of Self-Organization
The Tragic Spread of Misinformation
A Better Way to Work
Ask Yourself This
What to Believe Now?
Rogue Primate
Conversation & Silence
The Language of Our Eyes
True Story
May I Ask a Question?
Cultural Acedia: When We Can No Longer Care
Useless Advice
Several Short Sentences About Learning
Why I Don't Want to Hear Your Story
A Harvest of Myths
The Qualities of a Great Story
The Trouble With Stories
A Model of Identity & Community
Not Ready to Do What's Needed
A Culture of Dependence
So What's Next
Ten Things to Do When You're Feeling Hopeless
No Use to the World Broken
Living in Another World
Does Language Restrict What We Can Think?
The Value of Conversation Manifesto Nobody Knows Anything
If I Only Had 37 Days
The Only Life We Know
A Long Way Down
No Noble Savages
Figments of Reality
Too Far Ahead
Learning From Nature
The Rogue Animal
How the World Really Works:
Extinction Capitalism
Homeless
Republicans Slide Into Fascism
All the Things I Was Wrong About
Several Short Sentences About Sharks
How Change Happens
What's the Best Possible Outcome?
The Perpetual Growth Machine
We Make Zero
How Long We've Been Around (graphic)
If You Wanted to Sabotage the Elections
Collective Intelligence & Complexity
Ten Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier
The Problem With Systems
Against Hope (Video)
The Admission of Necessary Ignorance
Several Short Sentences About Jellyfish
A Synopsis of 'Finding the Sweet Spot'
Learning from Indigenous Cultures
The Gift Economy
The Job of the Media
The Wal-Mart Dilemma
The Illusion of the Separate Self, and Free Will:
Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark
Healing From Ourselves
The Entanglement Hypothesis
Nothing Needs to Happen
Nothing to Say About This
What I Wanted to Believe
A Continuous Reassemblage of Meaning
No Choice But to Misbehave
What's Apparently Happening
A Different Kind of Animal
Happy Now?
This Creature
Did Early Humans Have Selves?
Nothing On Offer Here
Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That
Glimpses
Fragments
What Happens in Vagus
We Have No Choice
Never Comfortable in the Skin of Self
Letting Go of the Story of Me
All There Is, Is This
A Theory of No Mind
Creative Works:
Reminder (Short Story)
A Canadian Sorry (Satire)
Under No Illusions (Short Story)
The Ever-Stranger (Poem)
The Fortune Teller (Short Story)
Non-Duality Dude (Play)
Your Self: An Owner's Manual (Satire)
All the Things I Thought I Knew (Short Story)
On the Shoulders of Giants (Short Story)
Improv (Poem)
Calling the Cage Freedom (Short Story)
Rune (Poem)
Only This (Poem)
The Other Extinction (Short Story)
Invisible (Poem)
Disruption (Short Story)
A Thought-Less Experiment (Poem)
Speaking Grosbeak (Short Story)
The Only Way There (Short Story)
The Wild Man (Short Story)
Flywheel (Short Story)
The Opposite of Presence (Satire)
How to Make Love Last (Poem)
The Horses' Bodies (Poem)
Enough (Lament)
Distracted (Short Story)
Worse, Still (Poem)
Conjurer (Satire)
A Conversation (Short Story)
Farewell to Albion (Poem)
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Author Archives: Dave Pollard
Manifestly, an Imagined Conversation
More radical non-duality nonsense. Skip it if this isn’t to your taste. The conversation included in this post is a work of fiction. Carlo Rovelli (photo from wikipedia); Tim Cliss (photo from his web site) I have been reading theoretical … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works, Radical Non-Duality
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The Implosion of the Left
comic by Reza Farazmand You don’t have to look far to see discouraging signs of the left’s demise: The total capitulation of the handful of real leftists in US government to the Biden administration’s xenophobia, war-mongering, and total inaction on … Continue reading
What Does It Mean to Be Yourself?
Painting in oil pastels, “Family Portrait”, by the Polish graphic artist Sławek Gruca. Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves, Radical Non-Duality
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Links of the Month: June 2022
cartoon by the incomparable Michael Leunig I wouldn’t pretend to know what Michael was thinking when he created the cartoon and poem above, but it really resonated with me. To me it describes the virtue of openness, of equanimity, of … Continue reading
Modernity as Whipping-Boy
from back in the days when modernity was considered a good thing There’s been a major increase in the use of the term “modernity” in this century. In recent decades it had become mostly a term used by academics and … Continue reading
What Makes Your Life Worthwhile?
the three-circle ‘Venn model of Purpose’ from my book, designed to help you find ‘the work you’re meant to do’ Fourteen years ago, Chelsea Green published my first book, Finding the Sweet Spot, describing what I had learned advising successful … Continue reading
Regulating Hate, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes
Warning: Some of the descriptions in this post may be triggering to some readers. one answer to hateful online posts, that has so far, in most cases, worked colossally badly The spreading of hate is responsible for creating a huge … Continue reading
No Matter
This is another musing about radical non-duality. Skip it if the subject is not of interest. If you don’t know what it’s about and would like to, start here. asphalt 8 car race game, from gameloft When I’m writing about … Continue reading
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Capitalist Oligarchies See Governments As Their Last Competitors
(right click to open chart in a new tab, or click here, to view full-size) The idea of a corporation was originally as a means for a group of people to pool their resources to do or get something that … Continue reading
More Risky Business
DAVE’S GLOBAL RISK MATRIX — 2022-2030 (right click to open chart in a new tab, or click here, to view full-size) In recent years, I’ve made fun of the extravagant annual Davos self-congratulatory business ego-fest, and in particular the annual … Continue reading
