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--- My Best 200 Posts, 2003-22 by category, from newest to oldest ---
Collapse Watch:
Hope — On the Balance of Probabilities
The Caste War for the Dregs
Recuperation, Accommodation, Resilience
How Do We Teach the Critical Skills
Collapse Not Apocalypse
Effective Activism
'Making Sense of the World' Reading List
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
Requiem for a Species
Civilization Disease
What a Desolated Earth Looks Like
If We Had a Better Story...
Giving Up on Environmentalism
The Hard Part is Finding People Who Care
Going Vegan
The Dark & Gathering Sameness of the World
The End of Philosophy
A Short History of Progress
The Boiling Frog
Our Culture / Ourselves:
A CoVid-19 Recap
What It Means to be Human
A Culture Built on Wrong Models
Understanding Conservatives
Our Unique Capacity for Hatred
Not Meant to Govern Each Other
The Humanist Trap
Credulous
Amazing What People Get Used To
My Reluctant Misanthropy
The Dawn of Everything
Species Shame
Why Misinformation Doesn't Work
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
The Needs of the Moment
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:
Making Sense of Scents
An Age of Wonder
The Truth About Ukraine
Navigating Complexity
The Supply Chain Problem
The Promise of Dialogue
Too Dumb to Take Care of Ourselves
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
Loren Eiseley, in Verse
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:
No Free Will, No Freedom
The Other Side of 'No Me'
This Body Takes Me For a Walk
The Only One Who Really Knew Me
No Free Will — Fightin' Words
The Paradox of the Self
A Radical Non-Duality FAQ
What We Think We Know
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
How Our Bodies Sense the World
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:
Mindful Wanderings (Reflections) (Archive)
A Prayer to No One
Frogs' Hollow (Short Story)
We Do What We Do (Poem)
Negative Assertions (Poem)
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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Monthly Archives: February 2003
VOLUNTEER, STOP THE WAR
From the days of the Vietnam War (and perhaps even before that), there has been a tacit link between opposition to war and volunteerism. Opponents of war signed up for the Peace Corps and other non-profit organizations, showing they were … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch, How the World Really Works
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ONCE AROUND THE HORN: READINGS INTELLIGENT AND EDUCATIONAL
Alternet interviews Bill Maher today. Love his comment on how Bush missed the opportunity to do a “Nixon-to-China kind of thing.” (Despite Tiananmen, Nixon’s opening diplomatic relations with the unrepentant Communist Chinese struck me as extraordinary, almost redeeming). Maher’s HBO … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works, Our Culture / Ourselves
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BLOGGING FOR VISUALLY-IMPAIRED READERS?
A couple of people have e-mailed me to say they like my blog, but find reading anything on-screen very difficult and prefer to print things out and read them in hard-copy form. They say that most blogs run slightly off … Continue reading
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EXURBAN TALE #1: LESSONS FROM CHELSEA
We live in something called an exurb: neither rural nor urban, nor suburban. It’s a hilly subdivision with 24 houses, each on roughly 2-acre lots abutting an 1100 acre semi-wilderness “conservation area”, with mostly farmland and forest on the other … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch, Creative Works
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THE COST OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
The WorldWatch Institute, publishers of the annual State of the World report, holds weekly conferences on various environmental and ‘sustainable development’ topics. This week the topic was Renewable Energy, and the transcript is available here . One of the questions … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch
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BEAM ME UP, SCOTTIE. WELL, MY QUANTUM STATES ANYWAY.
MIT reports this week that Danish and Swiss researchers have successfully teleported photons a distance of 55 meters, and expect commercial applications within a few years.
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WHAT INNOVATION? THIS INNOVATION
Author Robert Tucker this week describes the five steps necessary to make a business innovative. I took a swipe at most business’ real interest in innovation recently, but I try to keep an open mind. The five steps: Innovation must … Continue reading
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More silliness. A neighbour of mine passed this along, with five other even tackier examples. It’s not a see-through skirt, but actually a clever print on the back of the skirt to make it look like see-through. UK Daily Mail … Continue reading
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CANADIAN BUDGET OFFERS SURPLUS, HELP FOR NEEDY, DEBT PAYDOWN, NO TAX CUTS
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien introduced his final budget today (he’s retiring after a seeming eternity as P.M., and if an election were held today polls show he would win by a landslide). Contrast the following highlights with Bush’s recent … Continue reading
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REVISIONIST HISTORY OF THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, BUSH STYLE
From the CBC, reporting that “weekend protests won’t sway Bush”: “Evidently some in the world don’t view Saddam as a risk to peace. I respectfully disagree,” Bush said. “War is my last choice, but the risk of doing nothing is … Continue reading
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