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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
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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
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Under No Illusions (Short Story)
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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)
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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)
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Saturday Links for the Week — October 20, 2007
Cartoon by Chris Britt Canadian consumer debt load becoming unsustainable: A recent survey of Canadians suggests: For all except the richest, net worth is stagnant or dropping, while total assets and total debts are rising. So while people might appear … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Two Biggest Political Issues of the 2010s
Pew Research Poll, US, 2005 (I’m waiting for Jon Husband to OK my publishing of the podcast conversation and transcript I recorded with him last week. It should be up Monday. In the meantime, I’ve been meaning to get the … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Will Increased Income and Wealth Disparity Lead to Generational Class War?
Practitioners of a new statistical discipline called Econophysics have produced the curve above, showing US wealth data plotted logarithmically. They claim the richest 0.1% of the population’s income is described by Pareto’s Law — meaning that if you’re born into … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Can the Corporation Survive?
My book on Natural Enterprises proposes a partnership model for new enterprise formation and sustainability. Joel Bakan’s book The Corporation argues that, in their single-minded pursuit of short-term profit at any cost, corporations now behave pathologically (see graphic above), and … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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What Makes Us Care About Nature?
I‘ve written before about how we can’t expect people to care about nature and wilderness, or anything else, unless they’ve experienced it first-hand. We may appreciate things intellectually (global warming, the war in Darfur, poverty, the need for security against … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch
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Sunday Open Thread – October 14, 2007
Survey of frequency of mention of IT-related terms in the literature per study by Ping Wang.It would appear that the decline of KM since this paper was written has followed that of the other terms. What I’m Thinking of Writing … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links for the Week — October 13, 2007
From the ‘picture’s worth a thousand words department’: This pretty well says it all. Charge It To My Kids: I rarely agree with Flat Earth Friedman, but he’s right in his outrage over Bush’s (and our) growing propensity to buy, … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Second Life as a Platform for Virtual Meetings and Distance Learning Programs
Next month I’m participating in a ‘fireside chat’ on the future of education with a group of leading thinkers on the subject from around the world — in Second Life. We’ll all be there, represented by our avatars, sitting on … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Natural Education, Natural Enterprise, Natural Community: Creating a Virtuous Cycle
I‘ve been chatting recently with my European friend lugon, of fluwiki fame, about the recurring frustration many of us have trying to move from ideas to actions. Progressives seem to agree that natural education (unschooling), natural enterprise (making a joyful living … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch
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How Short-Term Thinking Affects Risk Perception, Investment Decision-Making and the Need for Business Activism
Businesses are preoccupied with risks. Their managers believe they should be able to mitigate them, or at least be prepared for them. But they don’t understand the nature of complexity, and that complex events that pose risks to organizations cannot … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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