Author Archives: Dave Pollard

Links of the Quarter: March 2019

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Dave Pollard

I posted a special ‘links of the month’ in January to showcase some important new writing about civilization’s collapse, so this quarter’s links are a bit lighter in both volume and tone than usual. Hope you enjoy them. PREPARING FOR … Continue reading →

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We Can’t Imagine

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image from spirit111 at pixabay cc0 to see that there is no ‘us’, nothing apart, that everything is just a wondrous appearance, that there is only ‘oneness’ (though that poor word doesn’t begin to describe it, it’s as close as a ‘language … Continue reading →

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Collaboration is the Hallmark of Community

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Dave Pollard

I‘ve spent many hours over the past four months rehearsing for a choir performance, a benefit for our local food bank. The world premiere concert was last night and played to a sold-out crowd, and it was a huge success … Continue reading →

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A New Model for Transition?

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Dave Pollard

It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog about a real ‘aha!’ moment. Thanks to Kate Raworth, I just had one. Kate is the author of The Doughnut Economy, an astonishingly simple economic model that captures our current … Continue reading →

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Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image from youtube video by principieuniversi.com  I‘ve always had a deep-seated, intuitive preference for explanations and theories that are at once simple (“a theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler” as Einstein possibly said), and complex (not … Continue reading →

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Glimpses

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Dave Pollard

“April is the cruellest month” — The first line of TS Eliot’s The Wasteland, originally read “February is the cruelest month”, but Ezra Pound insisted it be changed, not to make it truer, but because it sounded better poetically. Image … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: January 2019 — Collapse Watch Edition

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image from Gail Tverberg’s article, described below For the last few years I’ve been posting links to the best (in my opinion) articles, videos and quotes published in the past quarter, on a variety of subjects. Since my December list … Continue reading →

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How Can We Prepare For an Unknowable Future?

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Dave Pollard

Last Sunday, Bowen in Transition, the local chapter of the global Transition Network, held a meeting to discuss “our growing feelings of anxiety and insecurity as the news of climate collapse (and economic and social precarity) gets ever worse, how … Continue reading →

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Curious About Radical Non-Duality But Hate Videos?

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Dave Pollard

The essential message of radical non-duality, as opposed to more historical types of non-duality, is that there is no ‘you’ — no separate person or thing, no self, no ‘awareness’ or ‘consciousness’ or ‘enlightenment’ or liberation, no self-control or choice or … Continue reading →

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Blogging Without Facebook

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Dave Pollard

Cartoon from the New Yorker by Lee Lorenz Five years ago I summarized why I still blog this way: I keep blogging because I owe just about everything about my current situation to my blog. My writing and my readers’ … Continue reading →

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