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Dying of Despair
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Making Sense of Who We Are
What Would Net-Zero Emissions Look Like?
Post Collapse with Michael Dowd (video)
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The End of Philosophy
A Short History of Progress
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The Right to Die
CoVid-19: Go for Zero
Pollard's Laws
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The Process of Self-Organization
The Tragic Spread of Misinformation
A Better Way to Work
Ask Yourself This
What to Believe Now?
Rogue Primate
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True Story
May I Ask a Question?
Cultural Acedia: When We Can No Longer Care
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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:
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Republicans Slide Into Fascism
All the Things I Was Wrong About
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The Perpetual Growth Machine
We Make Zero
How Long We've Been Around (graphic)
If You Wanted to Sabotage the Elections
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The Problem With Systems
Against Hope (Video)
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Nothing Needs to Happen
Nothing to Say About This
What I Wanted to Believe
A Continuous Reassemblage of Meaning
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The Opposite of Presence (Satire)
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Monthly Archives: May 2005
Saturday Roundup: Five Thought Provokers
The Fifty-Year Shadow: The last living signatory of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955, warning politicians and the world of the dangers of nuclear arms proliferation, explains eloquently in this week’s NYT why that warning is just as relevant fifty years … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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The Great Refusal, by Glenn Parton
This is the third and final part of Glenn Parton’s latest essay. Part one, Exterminism, is a broad criticism of Western culture. Part two, Free Love, outlines a mystical approach in support of a polyamory lifestyle. In this third part, … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Looks Like the Fourth Turning After All
The Idea: Is the US predestined to slide into totalitarianism? I haven’t written much about US politics lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been paying attention. As distraught as I am about the extremist ideology of the party in … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Making Blogs Browsable
The Idea: By allowing blog articles to be indexed the way their author would organize them in a filing cabinet, and by allowing the reader to view blog articles by topic and sub-topic instead of just reverse chronological order, blogs … Continue reading
Twelve Ways to Think Differently
The Idea: Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world. Our minds are like our bodies — fail to exercise them and they … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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By the Numbers: The Wal-Mart Dilemma, File Sharing and Lousy Service
The Idea: Oligopolies, insane intellectual property laws, unreasonable shareholder expectations, government corporate welfare, massive subsides, corporate amorality and other aberrations keep the current economy light-years from being a true market economy, but at a micro level, customers are starting to … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Making Peace With the End of Civilization
The Idea: The author waxes philosophical about how he can be so pessimistic and so happy at the same time, and why he works so hard when he sees no perpetuity to what he does. Here’s the gist of a … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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We Need More ‘If the Shoe Were On the Other Foot’ Thinking
The Idea: If we really want to break people out of their frames, we should make less use of satire and more use of analogous thinking based on an extension of the ‘golden rule’ . By now you’re probably tired … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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A Little Bragging, A Little Contest, and the reason Dave’s RSS is MIA
Although my page-counts are going through their usual spring doldrums, my Technorati inbound blog count is creeping up on the magic 1000 mark, and should reach that level in the next week or two. This will be a first for … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Links of the Week
Here’s my usual Saturday assortment of interesting links sent to me or stumbled upon in the past week, this week with a predominantly feminine flavour: The Real News from Iraq: Kentucky photojournalist Molly Bingham, who has risked her life several … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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