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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: August 2006
My Ideal ‘Community House’
Architecture and building design are wildly beyond my expertise, but occasionally I have fun thinking about The Perfect House. In my case it would be a communal space, shared by an entire intentional community of 30-50 people. It would have … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch
7 Comments
Dave’s Self-Change Journey
I‘ve hesitated about writing this because, rather than being a true diarist, I generally only write about things when I’ve finished with them — more-or-less completed ideas, reviews, synopses, stories with an ending. I am a restless and impatient artist, … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
16 Comments
Links for the Week — August 20, 2006
Alcohol as Organic Pesticide: India is exploring the use of inexpensive alcohol as a safer, cheaper substitute for toxic chemical pesticides. So far so good. Thanks to Dale Asberry for the link, and the one that follows. Animals in the … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
4 Comments
Proposal: The New Enterprise Coaching Foundation
In Wednesday’s post I suggested that my next career may now lie in coaching (a) displaced and disenchanted baby boomers and entrepreneurial young people in high school and university on finding meaningful work and creating Natural Enterprises, (b) teens in a … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
12 Comments
Social Conservatives’ Obsession with Crime
A couple of days ago I reported a liberal’s assertion that conservatives seem “unwilling or unable to engage in issues that are fundamental to the future of mankind”. In the last few days we’ve seen evidence of what social conservatives, … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
13 Comments
Finding Meaningful Work (When What Has Meaning to You is Changing)
I had another duh! moment yesterday. The first part of my upcoming book The Natural Enterprise is about finding meaningful (for you) work. It’s essentially about finding or creating work that is at the ‘sweet spot’ where your Gift (what … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
3 Comments
The Definitive Lakoffian Liberal Definition of a Conservative
Maybe once in a decade you hear a political quote that is so remarkable you just want to write it down and call everyone you know and tell them about it. Last night Bob Rae, the former NDP premier of … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
4 Comments
Social Networking: Still Not Meeting its Critical Promise
I‘m delighted to be a keynote speaker at the Online Information 2006 conference in London, England later this fall, thanks to an invite from KM guru David Gurteen. My task is to brief the audience on the history of social … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
5 Comments
Links for the Week – August 12, 2006
Nine articles this week on completely different subjects, none of which you will learn about from the mainstream media, because they’re too complex to dumb down to a two-minute story. A House Design That Consumes No Net Energy: Really interesting … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
8 Comments
Principles of Self-Experimentation: Dave Strives to Help His Body Heal Itself
I‘m now feeling sufficiently better to begin my search for causes and cures of ulcerative colitis. I’m proposing to use an approach called Self-Experimentation, explained in Seth Roberts’ book and articles. In two previous articles, I have summarized: the self-experimentation … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
23 Comments