Monthly Archives: May 2007

Great Advice in Seven Words or Less

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Dave Pollard

WaPo cartoon by the brilliant Tom TolesWhen I’ve asked for advice, I’m most likely to understand it, follow it, and remember it when it’s short and to the point (unless it’s really asinine, like “relax”). When I’ve been thanked for my … Continue reading →

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We Are Not Who We Think

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Dave Pollard

If you spend enough time thinking about instinct, and culture, and genetics, and language, and love, you begin to get pretty skeptical about ‘free will’. As the diagram above shows, we are the product of: our culture (the language which determines … Continue reading →

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Finding Ourselves Free

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Dave Pollard

In the latest (May-June) edition of Orion, Chris Cokinos writes about the unbearable grief for Gaia that so many of us feel, relentlessly. In a similar vein to Richard Bruce Anderson’s article, its goal is to help us get past … Continue reading →

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Comfortable Disconnection

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Between the idea And the reality…Between the conception And the creationBetween the emotion And the responseFalls the Shadow Life is very long — TS Eliot, The Hollow Men This culture is a suffocating fog that wraps around my body(like the … Continue reading →

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Making Government Work

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Dave Pollard

It is hard to believe that anyone still believes that the untrammeled market works in the best interest of anyone except the rich and powerful. Oligopolies gouging the customer and eliminating innovation and competition. Corporations bullying governments and regulators to eliminate … Continue reading →

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Sunday Open Thread – May 6, 2007

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Dave Pollard

What I’m thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon: Good Working Models of Social Networking: The other day I prescribed a methodology for introducing Web 2.0 social networking applications into your organization. But what’s missing are good … Continue reading →

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Saturday Links of the Week: May 5, 2007

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Sketch of Dr House (Hugh Laurie) by Dutch artist Jessie145 What It All Means This Week: Monbiot’s Global Warming Solution is Already Out of Reach: George Monbiot’s Heat prescribed a radical but feasible way to prevent the more catastrophic effects … Continue reading →

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Debate versus Dialogue

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Dave Pollard

 A couple of weeks ago I weighed in on readers’ comments about my response to Dave Snowden’s argument favouring debate over dialogue, even when it produces some friction. I owe some further explanation and elaboration.   My thesis on how we … Continue reading →

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Joe Bageant’s Personal Liberation

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Green Turtle at home in Tortuguero, Costa Rica, described in David Ehrenfeld’s book Beginning Again My friend Jon Husband sent me the latest Joe Bageant article this morning. If you do nothing else today, please read it. Don’t be fooled by … Continue reading →

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Are We Violent By Nature?

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Dave Pollard

Jason Godesky at anthropik.com has taken issue with the ‘violent chimps vs. peaceful bonobos’ debate, pointing out that Jane Goodall’s misbehaving chimps, for example, were coerced (with food bribes) into proximity with her research team over years of study and hence might no longer behave … Continue reading →

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