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Preparing for Civilization's End:
What Would Net-Zero Emissions Look Like?
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
Giving Up on Environmentalism
Going Vegan
The Dark & Gathering Sameness of the World
The End of Philosophy
The Boiling Frog
Our Culture:
What to Believe Now?
Rogue Primate
Conversation & Silence
The Language of Our Eyes
True Story
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
The Rogue Animal
How the World Really Works:
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:
Happy Now?
This Creature
Did Early Humans Have Selves?
Nothing On Offer Here
Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That
Glimpses
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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
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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)
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)
Distracted (Short Story)
Worse, Still (Poem)
Conjurer (Satire)
A Conversation (Short Story)
Farewell to Albion (Poem)
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Monthly Archives: June 2004
BLOGS IN BUSINESS — WHAT WE COULD DO NOW
I‘ve written before about Blogs in Business and the role I think they could play. But my idealism — the desire to have a better, simpler blog product with some better social networking functionality before we try to sell it … Continue reading
THAT’S AWFULLY PERSONAL: GENIES, DECLARING WAR, AND CELEBRATING BAD TASTE
Here are my belated answers to the last few weeks’ That’s Awfully Personal questions: Genies Q: A genie appears before you and says: “I am merely an apprentice genie, so I can’t grant three wishes, but I have the power … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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CANADA VOTES: A FRACTURED TURN TO THE LEFT
To no one’s surprise, Canadians elected a minority government yesterday. The only surprise was Ontario, which delivered 75 of its 106 seats to the Liberals, defying both the pundits and the polls, and giving Prime Minister Paul Martin 25 more … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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WHAT MEN REALLY WANT
I had a discussion the other day with a friend who said that, in the opinion of several women he knew, most men had become ‘extra children’ in their families, led around by the nose, in fact if not in … Continue reading
GEORGE BUSH: BIG BROTHER, BIG SPENDER, ENDANGERER OF AMERICAN LIVES
It seems hardly a week goes by without another astounding revelation of the Bush Regime’s agenda to intervene without limit into the lives of Americans, and everyone in the world, to further its right-wing, psychopathic agenda. Here’s the latest grim … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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GICLEE, AND THE INNOVATION AND ETHICS OF ART REPRODUCTION
I love the work of photographer David Lorenz Winston, so when I saw what looked to be an original oil painting by him entitled “Solitude”, at an unbelievably low price, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was right not to … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Awfully Personal Question for June 26, 2004
Welcome to That’s Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a bit better. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in _ Uncategorized
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THE COMING IRAQ CIVIL WAR
A year ago I predicted that Civil War would break out in Iraq as soon as the occupation force left, no matter how long that took, and that such a war would probably end in the division of the country … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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GOOD STUFF
The Worldwatch Institute has just released Good Stuff, a guide for socially and environmentally responsible consumers. Please read it — if you’re like me, you’ll find a lot of information you didn’t know. You can download a .pdf of the … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Last year I republished a wonderful commencement address by Tony Kushner. It’s that time of year again, so I went looking for the best of this year’s crop. I read a lot of commencement addresses, many by famous people — … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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