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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
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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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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)
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Flywheel (Short Story)
The Opposite of Presence (Satire)
How to Make Love Last (Poem)
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
The Victims of Civilization
The end of another year: Time to rememberThe victims who wait, without hopeFor the freedom they can only imagine. The children and spouses who suffer dailyBehind closed doorsFrom the horrific abuses of those made sickBy civilization’s relentless stresses. The farmed … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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Figments of Reality and the Theatre of the Mind: Part Two of Three
(this is a continuation of yesterday’s review of Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen’s 1997 book Figments of Reality — Part One can be found here) I concluded the first part of this essay by saying that: I find very compelling … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Figments of Reality and the Theatre of the Mind: Part One of Three
Most books on consciousness, existentialism and epistemology drive me to distraction. Ruminations that all of existence may be just an invention of our minds, or of someone else’s mind, and why nothing is knowable, are enough to cause me to … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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We Don’t Want to Know: A Hurricane Wilma Story
It was a year ago that the Asian tsunami hit. What have we learned? We haven’t learned to be prepared for natural or man-made disasters. We weren’t, and aren’t, prepared for hurricanes. We weren’t, and aren’t, prepared for terrorist attacks, … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Wonderful Summer: A Reminiscence
Each summer my parents would take my brother and me to ‘the lake’ for our two-week vacation. ‘The lake’ was different from year to year, one of many lakes in the Whiteshell region of Eastern Manitoba, a couple of hours … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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Think More, Feel Less?
We woke up this morning, Boxing Day, to the scene above, as far as the eye could see. As soon as I got up I had to get outside, get everyone else outside, take pictures. I just stood out there … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links – Dec. 24/05
Unconferencing: A Recursive Conversation: My friends Rob Paterson and Chris Corrigan have a podcast conversation with the UK’s Johnny Moore about ‘unconferencing’ — running a conference without speakers, using conversation facilitators instead. It’s an enlightening conversation, involving three very intelligent … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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A Christmas Story
It was Spencer’s first Christmas alone since his wife had left him. Like his retirement a year earlier, he seemed to be taking it in stride, coping a lot better than the other people he knew who’d been through more … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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Close Your Eyes and Imagine
Back in the mid-1990s, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame was bitterly funny. Then for some reason he became mostly just bitter. In 1997 he wrote a book called The Dilbert Future which made some tongue-in-cheek predictions, some of which were … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Phishing Menace
Like everyone else, I find spam annoying, but I also acknowledge that unwanted sales pitches of one kind or another are ubiquitous: I also find billboards, and commercials, and telephone solicitors, and every other kind of time-wasting unsought sales promotion … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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