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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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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)
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The Other Extinction (Short Story)
Invisible (Poem)
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How to Make Love Last (Poem)
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
BC Ruling on Polygamy: Implications for Polyamory
image from free-desktop-backgrounds.net Today, after months of hearings and deliberation, a BC judge ruled that the Canadian federal law making “polygamous union” a criminal offence in Canada was needed and defensible notwithstanding the fact that it does violate freedom of … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Links of the Month: November 19, 2011
Cartoon by Mark Hurwitt Quite often people ask me how I can live with a personal belief system that is so seemingly pessimistic and hope-less: I believe that our civilization will inevitably collapse, in stages, over the course of this … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Coping With Triggers
There are, it would seem, nearly as many approaches and therapies for dealing with triggers — events and actions that provoke negative emotions in us — as there are potential believers in them. Although I try to be open-minded about … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Occupy Movement: Don’t Tell Us What To Do
Everyone, it seems, has advice on what the Occupy movement should do next, in the face of winter, dwindling and hostile press coverage, flagging public support, volunteer burnout, and police raids and brutality. We’re all armchair strategists at heart. The … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Who ‘We’ Are, Part Three: Our Behaviours Drive Our Beliefs
A quick re-cap of the hypothesis I laid out in parts one and two of Who ‘We’ Are: The cells and organs of our bodies evolved our brains as a feature-detection, protection and mobility management device for their purposes. Our … Continue reading
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Who ‘We’ Are, Part Two: Ego: Our Debilitating Self-Deception
I should have realized that my recent post on Who ‘We’ Are would get me embroiled in a discussion on ‘free will’. So here’s Part Two of this existential rant, to hopefully explore and clear up some of the comments … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Metamovement’s Message: “We’re Not Buying It Any More”
The Metamovement (the umbrella term for the Occupy Movement, the Indignant Movement, the Arab Spring Movements and other anti-capitalist and pro-true-democracy movements around the world) has succeeded in drawing attention of many citizens to the fact that the actions of … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Who ‘We’ Are: An Existential Analysis
If there is a consensus in the responses I have received to my recent posts about being unhappy and ‘un-present‘, I think it would be: I should be grateful (and ‘get over myself’) I should stop thinking so much and … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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