Monthly Archives: December 2019

the ever-stranger

Posted on December 21, 2019 by Dave Pollard

  Each day, first in the early afternoon and then again at midnight dave-the-character (not ‘me’; rather the creature whose body ‘I’ presume to inhabit) walks down from its tiny, lovely room to the Kaua’i ocean shore, dressed only in … Continue reading →

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Making Sense of Who We Are

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Dave Pollard

Have you ever had the experience of learning several things, each of which evolved completely independently, such that when you put them together you get a very satisfying or profound new insight? This recently happened to me. As an admirer … Continue reading →

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Links of the Quarter: December 2019

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Dave Pollard

The stuff in this post is pretty heavy so I thought I’d start off light: “The reason we know the earth isn’t flat is that if it was, cats would have knocked everything off it by now.” (origin unknown) cartoon … Continue reading →

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Understanding Collapse: A Physical Systems View

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image from the good folks at Pixabay CC0 (thanks Guillaume Preat) While my belief in the inevitability of civilization’s collapse in this century is rooted in my study of complexity science and a commensurate appreciation of how change happens in … Continue reading →

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The World’s Most Blessed Agnostic

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Dave Pollard

I’ve said before that I believe we’re all suffering, and all healing, from what I’ve called Civilization Disease — the combination of mental and physical illnesses that results from the relentless stress of horrifically overpopulated industrial society and the global … Continue reading →

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